Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi

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good morning everyone has to welcome our secrets today so on show i yes years
ancestor last year
after the early seventies right way the original temple of for disaster path while wish to get involved as buddhist practice appreciate the trip for fha and his are fixed expression teaching but as fate would have it years but five he found himself comic eight
more civil practice which is ah we've had here for peace etc
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has been of over two decades very to our parents who is a libraries with how up as or her a predilection for a steady and library work a side effect of us with rod because wrong it's our spending program here and he's always careful go again
ah he's very fear of as create of dharma
informal session state but as his name implies is also a very simple and expression rough trade directly or indirectly all the factors theaters here at first these etc so the practice forms have been cut through wrong and a very very long arts
if his which you to the carriage buckets of water to the it plants take care of the entry to the chapel outside on r russell street
i could say more about my dear friend rob and i'd like to leave the rest of the morning like
if iraq and iran should be the answer had skipped by coming up with practice practice areas to get assistance you can get angina yes
you
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so last week surgeon topic but again your corn and in ginger coin
which is not easy to grasp he rarely a good portion from the doctor to had a major hand in creating the three commentaries on get your car
and we all try to keep up with it as he was reading you can understand until he was talking about
so i'm gonna be underside of dogan and present a simple site the easy side for dummies which is a frequency saggy the first thing he wrote when he came back from china
and after meeting is true teacher regime
this is enough twelve twelve twenty five twelve twenty seven something like
and an issue cause is angie
i'm just going to take a few sentences from it because although cooper ross alerted to the fact that i study supports actually i'm not very good standing and that in my mind is easily scattered so for me to study and when it's really satisfying lately i've been
realizing is just take a little bit and really focus on a little bit and not worry about if i know that day that he know it is endless but just take a small park and try to really understand the small parts
having confidence that the small parts are so good and if we can really understand a small part will become fine plus my feeling especially with dogan his own words so concentrated

no two countries and years the introduction decisive instructions on how to set is most elemental think that he wrote twins i can tell
and it's only a couple of pages long
the and each scares me through causes anki means they like universal guidance for the principles of georgia
and there had been a number of zombies prior to the one that he put together instructions for how to set from mozzie are all from chinese teachers
and he felt that they were inadequate particularly one that was prevalent
during his lifetime he felt was inadequate and been around for about one hundred years or so he felt like the person eroded to the month and roller didn't really have a deep understanding of what and really is
so he rewrote the existing thousand v into this version and then he twenty years later when he was in his mid forties he rewrote that and this is a version that we forthwith
so with the food isn't is not difficult to understand it if you read it through and most of you have read and heard of many times if you read it and and listen to it is it's fairly easy to get the gist of it is not conflict is not
he is not on so much about non-duality duality and things or twenty and turning upside down and rights and i've been spinning around which is some as other were feels like that's and messenger
his prints sounds pretty straightforward and don't you know you could kind of understand what the words being but i'm thinking maybe kind of understand because if you really look at at the words specific words really ask yourself what are these words really mean
even though he had a sense what i mean if you look at it more closely are you sure that you really understand
way like the way
sadness
illumination

and others and you know what it words really mean t to you to me not notice like a definition for how do we really understand it was
how do we bring it beyond the kind of conceptual level in something that we do we understand from size
french
he was hired have this coverage this morning of his life if you take on some dried fruits or sun-dried tomatoes new add water
the the original very concentrated but if you add water if you can digested as for tastes so i want to work towards helping us to digest the concentrate he was the building space
and help myself
so i'm just gonna take up a few sentences and i'll resist the sentences and
and of those i'm only going to really focus on the country
and i'm just going to take apart from the middle or ashley's near the beginning but it is just a portion but does i don't think it matters if i taken out of context because the maxilla cancer and song
need i mention the brother who was possessed of born knowledge
the influence of is six years of upright sitting is noticeable still or bodhi dharma transmission of the main seal the fame of as nine years of wall sitting is celebrated to this day
since this was the case with the saints of old how can people today dispense with negotiation of the way
you should therefore cease from practice based that intellectual understanding pursuing words and following after speech studied a backward step that turns your life inward to illuminate within
body and mind of themselves will drop away and your original face will be manifest if you desire such this you should practice such this without delay
so the first part about the buddha sat for six years and bodhidharma enormous after nine use
how does the roof convention net
i mean of course he's setting a high bar for us so that some if we'd tell the scottish if we show complacent of our practice if you think about somebody sitting in a cave for nine years looking into a wall or as a shocking really sitting for six years and you
take that seriously
is difficult to be complacent forwards fun has of what is an attitude about zen practice
and it's also interesting way during dobyns time there was a group of people through the practitioners who
felt that since then was everything since then was not limited to just sitting cross-legged
that flocking resented by down was that and everything it says there was no need beyond just the beginning part of your practice to is no need to sit cross-legged and he just couldn't stand and attitude services is a he was there for totally intuitive
the descended seductive the cross as a concentrated upright sitting is not important because he stands everywhere
our understanding of stains everywhere so that was also at in part of his when to stay there
so moving down to the lessons he says you should therefore cease from practice face and intellectual understanding pursuant words and falling after speech
so of course upon the you know the first
ah says he would make out of this is if we get too wrapped up in studying as listening to talks can i say we don't actually ah put ourselves into it but instead we have just like his mental framework or you know we love philosophy we loved them
the mental aspect of philosophy but it stays very mental we don't have to be actualized if interview
or agreed when we hear of words about buddhism with your dress
the but we don't challenge ourselves to actually read those words this issue for every religion such as
so that's that would be the first take on those words
and in every religion there's people that this really gets you know and love the words but doesn't really wanted practice too much
but what i took out his words because i don't you know actually or time and somewhat resistant to to tourists have difficulty with words so that's not so much a problem for me but what the problem for me as the words that are in my life and movement the mental
dialogue going in my mind full time
ah but not exactly words but images some words images i was moving to the future of the past
so
it's not exactly what he's saying but that's how i take what he's saying in understand it for myself that did that to be absorbed in my mental
drama
ah is is being
i should cease
this and cease from that kind of conceptual
fixation
and even tokyo and you know who is a genius who has
read more than you can ever imagine and new references to classical chinese literature and everything else even he said he regretted how much you how much time he has been reading and studying than it would have been better spent just sitting
and
also i think about what's really scary to think about today when everybody walking around with your devices which are filled with words and images and just walking around walking on the sidewalk looking at your devices you know and walking their dogs i'm half the people as see walking their dogs that a device
name or your ear and and what i'd take carpoolers over the san francisco when i'm going to work can last couple years i'd say maybe eighty percent of carpoolers are looking at their devices of the whole ride and not looking up the window not enjoying the weather or the day henderson's er they've been there
a there so that i
having catch up of friends and i must really compelling enough to fish
what i wonder how compelling the fringes
and then there's a great cook that and con a job was tokens cycle said and don't seek reality just let go of views
the don't see reality just let them reviews
so their sentences or study the backward step it turns your life inward to illuminate with him
this is a you know he gets adjusted to strength is not difficult to understand what he's getting here
but if you really look at it carefully yeah you know challenge yourself to lift is carefully what's what's he how did you experience this how do we experience for he said
sounds good but how do we experience
and what's light is just as a sister of a metaphorical convert
expression what is the mean when he says life and why does he to teresa like world where we should on how do we aluminate within what is this
when you come and sit as endo do you feel like you're illuminated with mtf really feel like what's happening would you use those words
and sir if he says studies a backward step was to forward step what kind of forward prefer mutation

so why is this line is really meaningful to me because
as we can make me see what by forward status
elements which is eager as concentric clear facts relating to the world
and particularly in are thinking of instances where it just comes very clear
the using physicians as
situations where i have some powers for it really looks i can really see that forward step which is louis and very self centered
im driving i drive a lot to your commute
of san francisco and i'm pretty careful driver as a considerate drivers and not aggressive and the murder and drives and i love sort of people sharing you know is you're reading with people in person face their turn heads appreciate that and i see the sociality drive and
them committees is working together in history where but there are times if when there's some primal thing comes up
which is just totally like an eight year old kids you know and a playground wanted to win and getting angry from alex to get angry that i want to compete for gosh somebody thinks i'm going to slow and a sort of speed of around me while i want to speed up to the show them as not
really slow and insisted
to fitting that gets mentality
jazz mentality that vessel and that's an extreme example but that so when that happens to me is sort of a little bit below the surface see when that comes out is very clear and the factors wave of land of move forward in our whole life can be like that
and americans are just
how very quickly are very aggressive cultures new lamp
really into accomplishment and i'm getting ahead
so
the word light from we're turning our life back
this difficult
can

i'm line just as a major i know for reading and talking decision that not light is not something that we
can see the light that he's talking about is not like a flashlight type life is more like lose we eliminate herself with we we become illuminated it's not like we're shining a light on something
but and you may experience that you may have this feeling of being a remainder of for seeing like but experiencing a sense of light i don't have that kind of experience although i loved like fashion light and really thrive on an actual life
and physical
so for me this the question you know what if be talking about
yeah i don't feel too frustrating not knowing
but it's a question from it so
rather than just say oh yeah life i would like to know what's really talking about

and when he talks about illuminating within you know the closest that i can come so far is and understanding in my own life is
when i would call it it's a drift a drain practice the practice of draining first like everything that comes this is particularly in zazen and you're also the from kansas and years about zazi and but you can apply it to every day
it's not just for and being in zonda thankfully
so for i think about it for myself is that when
task i'm in my mind and emotions come into my mind in of however
ha
some automatic quality than just to let them draining out but had i would have a vision can envision drain like like a sink where the water is in an interest drains out you don't have to flush it out and is the worst to
fine it's a synth it was just perfectly well water runs in and drains out
is very nicely into very dynamic
so i think about letting go have fun whatever i'm holding on to rather than trying to stop of the sing so you can hold on just to to whatever coming into it just let it dry out without having to push it up
so that feeling to me as some kind of energy
the president's dynamic quality which is the closest i've come to feeling of the limitations of
but you should conserve what do you what's true image and how do you experience that i was the closest you can come
and as a vague a little one quote from kamiya which is a tokens skeptical on light
this this quote is
cause dogan is always asking us and what is like like his he he wants us to ask that question he says his description of life is the brighton one of these discrepancies the brightness gathers hold of the brightness
it makes it into subject and object
the brightness gathers holes of the brightness and makes it into subject and object
so when i hear that i just wanna
stop
and and shut up
he he
he just says something about that wording which just
may she stopped
next lisa
then he goes on the same body and mind and themselves will drop away and your original faced with be manifest
so if it has obviously are are actual bodies mind of drop away but our attachment to somebody's mind drops away he is togas and in figure five experience with regime was too
feel like his body fat he said sloughed off its body mind sloughed off with like a mistaken and as sloughs off your skin
an original face will be manifested so original faces all these terms is an terms that you know everything to put his blindness but the experience of that
what is that
so explaining it i would say is that what are we when we don't we don't identify yourself with our particular qualities and we don't think the desk who i am is are various qualities that encompass me
hum
what are we when we don't attached to her o'clock our particular qualities are are
for situations
our pleasure or displeasure
my father is eighty eight and he has lost his memory he does not have alzheimer's
and he's fucking can communicate
he of happen well but he can communicate fine he's had he had several strokes and have changed his his whole mind around
and he has no memory he cannot he doesn't remember his family desert rumors work he doesn't know what he doesn't know that the son even though i visited can we have a week or so
he just knows that i'm a kind of a friend
he can't be five mention of my mother's day who died a few years ago he doesn't recognize your name
the one thing he does remembers the dog's name
my marriage his gruff thirty five or forty years ago fell fifty years ago he remembers the dog's name but nobody else's name
and but talking to him his his he goes intact
and his personality is intact actually in certain ways very elemental ways even though he has no reference to his previous life
and he's aware he's aware that he doesn't have this memory and he started barest because he feels he should go who we are
but once you say it's okay if we don't care if you have no he's said ah has great faith
address if i could have taken have a conversation so you don't keep it away is like original face life you know it's not much you can target funny videos but
he doesn't have any of this any reference to is and yet it all comes out the tendencies it is always had are clearly there

and finally the sentence if you desire such as you should practice such this without delay
so such this because again was his words
i mind
i had a little description who i say universal flow is what other costs such as in explain it to somebody but such as something that we experience not something that is philosophy or the a or something analytical
he know or to ignored
is a chinese korean chinese word for it
and if it means also can means the word yet so it's like if you say if it's cold
the it a freshness the we get which is the situation right now yet is called which is this situation get is called is such as
still though to to live our life and experience this how do we do this
and doing this
there's a a great story that found suzuki roshi tells is one of the he gave a talk on such miss probably machinery jesus
and and in this story is story about himself he was a college student in university in japan
an independent dormitory
and the bathrooms were not kept very clean
yes sir
no the bathrooms were not category free so he decided he went to clean them for you know clean and much sunlight because they were being done very well
but he didn't want people to see him do it maybe would sort of embarrassed administration if they so under students having to clean the bathrooms because we weren't kept up with older navy hear what people are thinking as a goody goody or i don't know exactly what is feeling was but he didn't want people see and do it but he did what the bathroom to be clean for him is kind of conflict because as
somebody were to come along and see him doing it he would want that to happen so he was afraid he hasn't fear anxiety that somebody would see him clean the bathroom at the same time and this is in his own words being stubborn minded he couldn't let go of wanting to clean the bathroom so it is conflict and he would think
about it a lot
if he had his personality that this is really important and which are the way to design
and one of my jobs at workers to actually taking care of the bathrooms stands are kept clean
so this went on for some time and he began to get kind of
feel more and more
bound up in this conflict and
fussy in his mind
and around this time p m
can you mean even gossip like at night you know after the president agreement university was working overtime and of just he was alone in this particular areas and he saw the light on in the hallway he was you know what a scary out of here when he saw the lights and if the president when cm cleaning the bathroom the fuck
this is absurd and learned is kind of problem so he also at that time happened to take a psychology class the teacher said you know what you think about to pass is not what actually happened in the past
not to mention the future but but your memory of the past is different reality than the past
which is makes sense but we may not really realize that
and it's sunday down i am that that how his his mental imagery of how he was imagining this
why didn't want to happen happen his mental imagery about that was not exactly what it would really be like but it would really be like if somebody saw him clinging after my feet
who knows
so he just decided to stop wearing them
and that if it happened if somebody size six it after he were to deal with
so that's his description of sessions
just seeing willing to the image situation and deal with whatever comes at that moment
rather than
arrange everything so that would work out nicely for for his desire

so we're short on time so i just want to read
those sentences not to learn about food and forty dollars for to serve their sentences together and a couple of questions
you should therefore cease from practice based on intellectual understanding pursuing words and following after speech
study the backward step returns your like inward to illuminate within
body and mind are themselves will drop away
and your original face will be manifest
if you desire such miss you should practice such this without delay
kelly and comments or questions
could you say something more about this problem
he says he talked about how of
life with attitude of some some practitioners thought since then he says everywhere why to our form of sitting practice
could you say something about why he thought and city practice was important for charges or for their systems everywhere

serve as a good question

that's of
that's a question for me
i don't know
he might say you just have to do it but i don't know if he ever explain right
is it works
but that i was actually been a question for me
from a am
from a route from a reasoning point of view he would wonder that logic what he was under why what is this sitting in his position was set up big deal
my way of understanding it is because her eyes are so restless and so easily distracted that relieved need kind of concentration has a very simple minded handsome but that's the way i understand so far i don't know what tobin would say
so much about the system for commercialization please
the original fish suspiciously original fish to superfoods life
i'm from says itself is
be a vehicle for life
doesn't it's very simple
this this to it and see original place
procedures no explanation of why it's good
hodges
mcgowan explaining his decision to to do it over her body to come through fishing the shutters can be a vehicle forget
speaking of vehicles run and pradesh to some thriving with you and i was wondering why you think you're just why are you com considerate drivers it just it comes naturally to you i mean i don't consider myself an uncommon considerate person that
so often in the car i feel like that eight year old
so you have some words about that the i enjoy it on it's it's not the monday talk i mention the physicality of leggings the physical just peeing as was and action and i enjoyed of it kind of beginners line and just enjoy the whole process of driving so
if you don't take you from granted this is incredible that that we're just moving around in these big challenges to feel and gone to swing going that way and thousands and thousands of cars and can not running into each other general and and the fact that there are people inside to i have
mines and federation
into each other and on that's how i see it as the site for ruins you know when you see a car you don't think about person in the cars
for the fact that it's all people as a value around the courts
then it's fun to thickener is in such as to interact physically and
come a long sentence
if i may have offers to since out
he says i am traffic
as soon records using get somebody else to the his defense and year when with ask is on your offer at me
thank you for speaking today so i'm us would like to go back to the life
ah attaining it but not becoming attached to it is an emotional feeling when you when you when it becomes an awareness if you're sitting with where is elusive that's how it seemed like someone in mercurial the loosen something
i'm so
can you talk about that war that is it an emotion
no
the fastened of i know one thing i know is estimated you can pursue
because it's for suit says is rose pursuing something so i know that you are they taking the backwards stephanie's the some pursuing something and yes you still energy and effort to be awake but not for its own sake
for not my it
i think anyone would genuinely stop pursuing and can get movie experience life and the way of these passing them i guess it's just like as destiny
i i think personally is a contradiction is that we should see laziness of people mean when when you're dead-set session for was people's so assume that kind of car you can see can leave us feelings for people around here but i don't know that
see yourself it's just the question
support or know if the experiences because together with that minister matthew

me on that phrase about brightness and brightness and chair chairs that you care it sounds like anyway it sounds like
sounds like you're right off to canada is a free ticket
system is
the subject object is is insufficient cynthia the and save the whole
if the brightest gathers hold of the brightness of makes it into subject and object and you was everything's already bright bright isn't just existing
so i can understand person as the
well it's services like some primal
from primal reality where
our whole world which is such an object dwelling or whole world that we're aware of comes out of
what he's talking them
this is a some sort of the dishes definition for a whole world the whole way of understanding sundays not
okay it's like he doesn't want to get caught by duality he doesn't want to give up by non-duality just as want to get hot
he doesn't wanna practice has full brightness it becomes subject and after the raid percents i the guy was thinking that one a gisha sets up the little table three shows on and then the this
that's what is tennessee

you have to kind of just scarf and you can't tickets of apart existence that's what is trying to tell us is stop trying to pick it apart so it's it's really the subject object sell for us to say thousand things are is a year and dualistic wave of seasons
but i'm wondering why he's going to the tool in a strictly of saying because he must include everything he doesn't want to do anything else
it
and ask ask them and because windows has a good question cause has
after a difficult first previous was difficult questions on
in flowing and universal for some original your questions in place several times
that brightness and this i just want to say to marry then the brightness you see his his friends you are some
my question was that quote you gave us house use the one the sense that ended with views from all he has to do is never used south down is not necessary to seek reality just let go of your views on for
and this is also my question and i always ask my eyes i live in a world and my work especially were having views is the highly prized and she's a professor at stanford gets its name or
no word and here's that's what you can pay for yeah
have
felicia making money
a really
my heart is crying out for decades cases you know like is there any value and happy
or
is this just a million it was life
this occasion having a okay to have used his pistol and we hang onto an attached to mrs problems and don't have a manager of work and i have certain views it up having to go and i'll stand by those use of to a fine but then there's a point where
i have to be flexible san diego lingo if through some resistance or are seeing something else or something else comes in protection
the user kind of the fire surprise means yeah yeah they're they're functional but there are function in butter buttercream hang out with them have been a wave clinging holding honor them for this is who i am and i'm going to cure because i have this view
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