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Embracing Emotions Through Zen Living

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The seminar emphasizes integrating Zen Buddhist practices into daily life, with a focus on the relationship between emotions like anger and joy. Participants are encouraged to embrace their emotions fully without suppression and practice mindfulness through breathing and awareness techniques to foster enlightenment. The talk highlights the significance of simple, sincere practice as a pathway to enlightenment and emphasizes the communal aspect of Zen practice, fostering a sense of shared journey among participants.

  • Zen Buddhism: Zen practices, including mindfulness and awareness, are explored as methods to improve everyday life and foster enlightenment.
  • Emotions and Pliancy: The distinction between anger and joy is drawn, where joy is seen as foundational and transformative within Zen practice.
  • Mindfulness Practices: Techniques for incorporating awareness into daily activities, such as focusing on breath and using reminders in one's environment.

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If you want to, you can say something. . It's like having been a baby or being a baby. Don't do a big baby. What does it say? I'm interested how my everyday life is going to be after this.

[01:02]

Yes. Wunderbar. Wunderbar. I especially really appreciate this sermon. In German? Yes. And Gisela is behind you, so you missed Gisela. I would like to be able to allow everything that's in me. I'm sorry, I didn't hear what they were talking about.

[02:11]

I'm trying to learn German so I can listen to short sentences. It's good for me to be different kinds of explanation. Thank you. Impressions with my own life. I hope I can get more advice. How could you do better with these half-daughters and losing my life?

[03:50]

I have a little story. There is no barrier on the street, and if you get over this barrier, you are closer to enlightenment. I want to say, too, and I hope that the seeds that have been planted today will start growing in the many-seeding group. It was very important for me when you talked about the tree. Thank you, Ms. Ewi.

[05:20]

I got a lot of ideas from confirmations. In one point, which concerns me personally, I thought, Lena, I'm not quite, the question is not so small. I received lots of ideas and reconfirmations today, but one point I have some kind of difficulties with is contrast with joy. It's very important to also express anger and express my boundaries through anger. Ich habe das Gefühl, in diesen Tagen nur einen kurzen Blick auf die Spitzereien, Eisbergs von neuer Dimension geworden zu haben, die ich sehr schön finde, wo ich auch sehr viel Interessantes gehört habe, vorher gebaut, mehr darüber zu erfahren, besser damit umgehen zu können, ja, und wieder in Deutschland, das ist wieder von dem Zeitpunkt.

[06:36]

These days I've been like looking onto the tip of an iceberg and I'm just hoping I can understand more of this. I'm looking forward to see you again. I'm very impressed and never before I sat for so long straight. I think I have forgotten most of the words again. But I have never had such a nice experience with an ant that ran over my socks. Yes, I am curious to hear what you have to say. It's good to see what comes out of the seeds. Thank you. Yes, I am not what we have heard or experienced.

[07:50]

I feel quite open now. I'm looking forward to experience what we talked about and now I feel like opened up a little bit and I hope I can maintain it. What's my experience during this weekend? It's possible to be more tolerant, less critical against one's own thoughts. Now I can do that with other people.

[08:56]

Thank you for all the feelings that have risen in me. The seminar has been utterly compact for me and it's quite calming that everything is kind of experienceable. I'm very moved and I would like to really pay attention how to develop awareness and mindfulness in my teaching. You don't want to talk with your toes, do you?

[10:07]

You don't want to talk with your toes at all? I don't want to thank you. My heart is beating so hard right now. And I am so full of new impressions, settings. And I am also curious how I can bring these impressions and settings into my everyday life. Also very moved and thankful I can feel my heart beating up here and I have received many impressions and new attitudes and this is also a question how can I include them into my everyday life and how can I lend

[11:17]

With Sashina's background I feel only now that I've understood a lot. I'm looking forward to experimenting with all this. I want to thank you for your lovely smile and your suffering. One of the important things is to be feeling. I want to work with that. Deutsch? .

[12:50]

I would love to have a hand in that. This is the first time I've heard about Zen Buddha and I think it's great. It's really great. It's the first time I heard something about Zen, and I'm quite full of it, and I want to think of it, and maybe then I feel it's something for me. Good. Okay, thank you. Can I say something? Oh, excuse me. I am very full with everything and from all of you and where I can also feel you all very much. And the Marion goes through my head at the moment, who belongs to this studio here and who has already hosted us for the third time, so hospitable.

[14:10]

And somehow I want to include Marion right now and I am very, very grateful to her. I'm very full with all that and each person here and very grateful. And just Marion is passing through my mind, this woman who's been our host now for the third time and how generous she is. And I would like to just include her. Well, one reason I thank you very much for being here and what you've given to the seminar One of the reasons why I want to thank you for being here and for giving the seminar By the way, Eckhart, it's an old Zen tradition to have to speak sometimes. The teacher, if he was a little rougher than me, would grab you and say, speak, speak.

[15:17]

And it's lucky I'm willing to speak when I'm asked. I think that a couple of things that you brought up I should respond to. Just in general. One is you brought up about anger. This emphasis on joy is an emphasis on the quality of mind that allows pliancy. You're perfectly right that anger defines boundaries. It also creates a kind of excitement and stimulation. I remember there were a bunch of poets in San Francisco who were always angry at each other, and they then write poems out of all this anger.

[16:34]

So, and in Zen practice, the whole emphasis is, if you're angry, just completely be angry. You don't have to repress it or express it, but you allow and just feel it. Or you can say it, you know, I am really angry. But that's a different So the dimension that this sense of joy, which is more like, anger is more like a sentence, and the way I'm talking about joy is more like punctuation. That makes sense.

[17:40]

It's more like the beginning and ends of sentences and commas and things like that, while the statements can be almost anything. Or maybe the paper is joy and what's written on it could be anger. If that makes sense. I bring it up because it's so easy and it's helpful for me for someone to say something like that. It's so easy to get these things mixed up. It takes a long time to see the territory. And not have the territory force things on you. And someone asked, several people have asked about... how to bring this into your daily life.

[18:51]

And I've given you a lot of little practices, like the door and the stairs and the window and so forth. And knowing your mind on your breath, It's to know a kind of awareness and intelligence that arises through the breath. That's probably the most basic way to bring practice into daily life. It's through the breath as a thread that you thread your mind into your breath. And find some way to remind yourself through the way you walk or look out the window or something. And it begins to penetrate. And also someone said, what is enlightenment? Well, all I can say is, enlightenment exists. And even though our life is very complex, and we shouldn't deny the complexity of our life, we just practice with a very simple feeling, and kind of heartfelt openness and trust.

[20:14]

With sincerity. But really with a simple feeling. And you just do it. That's very close to enlightenment. And creates conditions for the accident. And that's also how you bring practice How you bring practice into your daily life. I have a feeling of not wanting to finish. Since you all know a great deal about thought culture, thought is something we don't have to study that. And we spent a whole session on this one. Three days on this one. That's enough. Thank you. I started to say, partly why I ask everyone to...

[21:29]

say something with a stick, it's really important to me to just hear your voice. And for all of you to hear each other. Because for a moment we've helped each other in getting something that's quite subtle. And it creates a kind of funny kind of family. And you may recognize each other now and then. Okay, thanks. Five-thirty-two, not too bad. And leave it up to them.

[22:58]

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