Good morning, everyone, and welcome on the morning. So, I want to give some background for. The teaching we're going to be talking about. There are also session this little bit. So, when I are together, we'll be reading this. It's the 1st time we've had our option of 5 day. To celebrate this the awakening since 2019. So, this is a stage in our recovery from the pandemic. And I'll just say that. Number of you in person and online have already signed up if you have not yet, you're still welcome to sign up. For any 1, 2, or more days online. And also that everyone is welcome to come on and just for the morning.

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So, I'm going to talk in the period of. So, again, welcome everyone. We will be talking about. Most of the things about a text. It's important to set those and teaching. This is by who was the successor to. Our Japanese founder again. And a lot of teaching is that we. So, this text is called. In Japanese, this is the treasury of the treasury of ratings. Using the translation by talking clearly. And this book, mind being mine, but I want to talk about some of the background for this. This morning. So.

[02:06]

Well, some of the background to this text has to do with the other Tom Saka or flower ornament. Sutra, which is actually very important. But not so much talked about. So, there's an text. But it is actually a lot in the. Maybe talking about. And. Actually, there was a text in. So, again, so called. So, that's a. Which is the treasury of radiance. And just to say a little bit more about that, it's. It's sometimes translated and. Also, it's the treasury of light. It's not light as opposed to darkness. It's not. And don't get me say very explicitly. It's not about.

[03:12]

Blue, yellow, red, or some color of light. It's this radiance that is. Part of everything, both light and dark. It's just ready. It's that is. Our practice and our awareness, and that is. The Buddha of everything. So. This text does quote the flower. Some of us have been reading aloud and turn. The flower sutra. First Friday evening in the market just did a couple of nights ago. We've been doing it for 3 years. Once a month for an hour and a half. Or maybe 2 thirds of the way through. Texas. Huge query translation. Here are some other translations now. But. This flower has sutra talks about.

[04:14]

Well, this it does talk about this. Radiance this quality of Buddha. At one way. We can talk about it is in terms of their chapter, which is. Focused on the practice of. Universally good. He's one of the bodhisattvas who will be chanting this week. We don't chant. Universal worthy, universal good. And the main Buddha of. And this is important in terms of the. Teaching of this text is. But. Is the Dharma. That is. Body of the whole universe. Phenomenal world. Body of reality.

[05:18]

So. This is kind of a mysterious text in some ways. But in the. Chapter on. The practice of Samantabhadra or universal worthy. He says that. He practices. The shining practice. What is that for practice? Thanks to Buddha. He sits in front of Buddha. Or in the face of Buddha. Just as we sit with Buddha on our altar. We'll sit here in the center. Or you're part of this online as well. Can you all hear me online? OK, thank you. So. One way to understand this is that we sit.

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Thanks to Buddha. The Buddha allows us to sit this doesn't. And this Buddha. That we sit with or sit for or express in our own. Body mind practice. Is the Buddha of everything. So there's a Sanskrit word Dharma doctor. Which refers to the whole phenomenal world. But we can also understand it as a world as informed by Dharma. As informed by truth by reality. So this is. Practice that we all do. Thanks to Buddha and expressing Buddha. It's in our own particular way. And sharing that with everyone. So this is the teaching and the challenge of this text. And of the flower and the sutra. We each.

[07:30]

Already Buddha is here. We should us in our own way. This does not mean, of course, that practically speaking. We don't have. Ancient twisted karma, we don't have. Personal hangups or habits or inclinations or tendencies. But underlying that. And underlying all of the suffering and difficulties of our world. And that we each individually face. Is this reality body? This reality. Buddha. Maybe it's enough to just say Buddha. [...] We each. On our seat. Are sitting, you know, we sit in Zendo. Or on more now. In the face of Buddha.

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And our sitting practices about. Sitting upright like Buddha. So we each sit. Expressing Buddha in our own way. In our own particular body mind. But we are expressing this reality that is. Underlying and about everything. Everything in our life. Experiences of people we have. That in our life. Experiences are people we don't even remember. That's just our. Human achievement memory. So the point is that Buddha is here.

[09:41]

And in the flower sutra, there are. Many, many, many, many, many, many. And very many, many, many. It's a very colorful text. But underlying it is this. Samadhi. Of the treasury of radiance. So in various sutras, not just the flower sutra. Lotus sutra. There's a light. In its forehead. It's from his teeth. But there's this radiance. That Buddha shares with the world. And as we said, sauce and we partake of it. Whether or not we realize it or.

[10:49]

Believe it. That's kind of irrelevant. This is. The reality of our lives. This. Any word I say is not going to. Capture it. But. We. Express and get glimpses of that. We actually might realize and recognize. Of something that goes beyond. Something that's huge and wonderful. So that. Is often depicted as a great Buddha. Japan. Is part of this Japanese. So the Chinese school that comes out of the flower. Just the Chinese way of saying. And then in Japanese.

[11:49]

That's. And this. Has in it. The largest wooden statue in the world. The largest wooden building in the world. It's a beautiful statue, but it's humongous. And this is to denote. As. Accomplishing everything. All. Stars and. Plus and feelings. Everything is there. And this Buddha is huge. It's a beautiful statue. It's the best way I can express its size. Is that it's his ears are 8 feet long. So it was. Sometimes this Buddha. In Japanese is called. Great son Buddha. Sometimes this Buddha is depicted. Statues or whatever.

[12:52]

Stars and planets are his chest. You know that he. Is the Buddha of believers. So this sutra is. Very important in our. Tradition. It's not referred to so much. But. Which is also important. For the sutra for us. But. This this sutra that. That was the basis for. In China, the school. Chinese translation of. No. This developed in China into.

[13:57]

A separate school. In Japan, it was. It still survives in Japan. But it's it's not it never had major. It's never a major presence. In terms of the various. It was a school for older. 8th century period. I'm getting this information. So just as background. Again. For this somebody. This treasury of the somebody of the treasury of radius. What we're talking about during. This. This YM school. I would say is maybe the pinnacle of philosophy. That's my opinion. It's great to see. As a. Very fine.

[15:00]

We're discovering. It's about. But at any rate. This dialectical philosophy developed by teachers. It's powerful and I think very helpful. In terms of understanding the background philosophy. What practice and part of it is to. Look at the interaction. Of. Particular of the universal. Universal reality of. And the conventional reality that we all. Follow in our everyday activity. Stop. We go, so we don't ignore. These conventional realities and. Part of well, major part of. Philosophy and. Philosophy is about how these. And we talk about it practically in terms of.

[16:02]

How do we bring. Awareness. Awareness of just being upright and still. How do we bring that into our everyday activity? So sometimes that emphasizes that a lot. And that has to do with this background philosophy and just really briefly. And there's a fourfold. Particular and ultimate. There's different words used for these. Mutual. Interconnectedness of the particular. So, and the mutual interconnectedness. And non obstruction of particulars with particulars. That's the one with me. Of the many. And this is a. This was the background for. So this. Chinese. School was considered founded by.

[17:04]

Don't shot. Who was. Hundreds. This is it. In the practice of sessions. His arms and. He also is. The Jewel Mary. During. And this is contributed to. You know, the exact history of all this stuff. We don't have the videotapes. All of this, but this is the tradition. And this. Which we chatted many times here. Talks about the fivefold. Reality. So, in. There's five ranks of five degrees. Which is kind of comes out of this. Again, it's about.

[18:08]

Process of integration. The ultimate or universal with each particular. Phenomenal. Being or context. So, this is kind of the philosophy. Philosophical background of what practice. And in our practice, again, it's about how do we. Taste. Get a glimpse of or feel this. And especially in. But not only in. But this ultimate universal reality. And then how do we express it in the world? And then. There's this emphasis on once we. When we experience this, how do we share it? Difficult. Problems. Issues in our own lives. Around us. We certainly live in a very troubled world.

[19:10]

In so many ways. How do we express this deep. Reality. Ultimate reality of kindness and caring. Love. That we can feel within ourselves. So we have to do this for ourselves. And then also, how do we share it in the world? And in our own minds. This is the context of. And this is the background. That comes from. Okay, so that's. Some background to what we're going to be talking about. In this. And I'll just conclude with just 1 quote. So that's when I will be speaking. Text. Translation absorption in the treasury of light. I would say. The body of the treasury of radiance.

[20:16]

At any rate, just a short excerpt from it. And throughout this text. Again. Written up by. She also. It refers. To the flower. Particularly a number of places. It also refers to other great. Channels and ancestors. So, just a couple of paragraphs. The resource about master. Japanese. Chinese. So, I said. The spiritual light shines alone. Utterly free of senses and objects. The essence manifests. Eternal. It's not confined to writings. The nature of mine. Originally complete and perfect.

[21:19]

In itself. Just detach it from false objects. And it awakens to sessions. Total reality. Just detach it from false objects. We all. As subjects as. Our minds sees objects. And we. Conventionally, try and get a hold of the objects. We try to get rid of the objects that we don't. But that's the nature of our. Experience. Object. Just attach this. Sessions from false objects, and then awakens. And then. Comments. Life is unbroken from the infinite past. Through the infinite future. This is called perpetual energy.

[22:21]

The visual energy utterly free of senses. The essence manifests. Eternal. And is called permanent stability of radiance. This background. Radiance. Amid all of the. Prevalence and changes that we all. Transitions. Trusting in the spiritual light. Abiding peacefully. Imperturbable is called. Supreme concentration or Samadhi. Simply sitting. So this teaching is. About the reality. So there's a lot more to say about this. And how it's when I will be talking from this text during.

[23:23]

It's a shame. I didn't say it before. You're welcome. Everyone's. We're going on. You signed up as welcome to come online to the talks. 10 o'clock. Period of size that before. So we have a little bit of time now. For questions, comments. Reflections. So. Data can help me with. Seeing people online, comments or questions. And sharing. Thank you all. If you're online, you can either raise this hand. The physical hand or use the raise hands function. Yes. Coalition. Of course, it's there too.

[24:33]

But when we said. When we sit still and upright. At the possibility. Of settling, of course, there are periods. That happens. Periods. Feels calm and still. But, you know, part of the point of this. It's not some special. You know, experience outside of the rest of our lives. This is very much. Emphasized expression of this. Expression of this awareness. So, you know, you know, and this is a shot. This is a great challenge. Of course. How do we. In our interactions with. Friends, coworkers, neighbors, whomever. Without, you know, trying to manipulate anything. And make some. Do something fancy just to be.

[25:36]

And this radiance is there too. And this is the this is the great challenge of. Our lifelong practices, how do we. Express and share this with ourselves. Internally too, because we each have. Voices in our. Mind that can. Be critical or judgmental or whatever. How do we share this possibility? This reality of radiance. Which we experience. Experience to some extent or other. So, yeah, that's the important question. It's not. Just us, and this also helps us. Thank you. Other reflections, comments, questions. Jen.

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Did it right again? Thank you very much. Or she might say something more about. Somebody in the title. I know clearly translates it as. Absorption arms and I'm thinking about. The transcendence of the flower ornament sutra. Which. Seems something. Something distinguishable from just sitting. Right there. There's such a thing as going into a trance or. Inducing itself, inducing a trance. And so, so I wonder what the relationship is to that. Between that and somebody or absorption. Yeah, somebody is a common word for. Meditation. It's also a technical term. It means concentration. And so David Ray is one of the people who comes to the. Flower and sutra readings and even reading it in English. I heard from Thomas Cleary. Study was that he. Read the entire flower of a sutra in Chinese.

[27:51]

It doesn't mean there aren't any corrections in his translations. Translations are. But yeah, when you read this. Allow. It is. I don't like the word trans because it. Kind of feels like it's divorced from reality. Some other place, but. Absorption is OK. Somebody. Needs concentration, so it's. It is this. I might say very trippy text. It's. Reading it aloud. As we've been doing. It's not it's not a text that is. Discursive or instructional. It's just this. Flow of images of. Buddhism, Bodhisattvas and their practices and. The realms they inhabit.

[28:54]

And sometimes the discourse that. The Buddha allows a lot to Barbara, for example. Another bodhisattvas to speak. Supports them to speak so. I would call it in the flower and sutra a Somali text. It does induce this. State of being state of mind. That is. I'm not sure what word to use. People do say trance, but it's. It's. It's kind of like there's a. There's a term Dharani. Which actually all I think is an expert at some of that. He said for brownies from. But these are part of our practice to eat. And these Dharani's, which are like longer about this. Usually longer. During our Sadaki ceremony, there were a bunch of them.

[29:58]

And they're specifically inducing. Particular. States of. But. You know, there's various Sanskrit words for meditation. Jana. Is one and this is. The source of the word, Sean, which in Japanese becomes that. Translator. Transliterating that John is. Particular states of worldly meditation. That one gets to higher realms. And in China. People thought. That people doing all this meditation. So they're called. John is cool. And so that's one word for meditation. But Samadhi is related and. I like to use that as a Sanskrit term. Just for meditation. And. But there are different kinds of. There are libraries full of different.

[31:00]

Instructions for different. Programs of meditation. But Samadhi is it? Is it? I would say is a general generic term. For meditation. But also it's this. Intense concentration that one. Feels when. Deciding. This, you could do it silently. It might do it too. But residing in allowed as a traditional practice for. Working with the. Sutra. So this is the background again. Of this text. This Samadhi of the. Treasury of radiance. I don't know if that's to follow up to that. Other comments. Oh, hi. So, thank you very much for the.

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Action. And it wasn't. The image of. Wasn't. Right. And so what I heard in my mind here. Was people singing. Good. I can't get around. Good. I can. If I may. The word. You're translating is treasury. It's the. Bill gets. But it could also be. It could also be translated as a matrix, a source of things. And it can also be translated as. So we could read this text as. The Samadhi of. The room of radius. Just to bring in that.

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Yeah. So, thank you. If you're not finished. Okay, good. Thank you. So we had a little more time if anyone else has any. Congress or reflections. People online as well. Questions. It might feel like this is very abstract and theoretical and not so practical. But part of the point of this kind of teaching. Is that it's the. The basis to background. The underpinning. Of all our practices in the world. As well as. As well as just sitting. Sitting like Buddha. So this is. It supports us in our everyday practice. Well, thank you.

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What was your hand up? Vicky Vicky's hand is up. Oh, okay. Hi. Hello. So. I'm here. I'm fighting a cold and my. Habits of just being rushed and feeling pressure. I've been kind of at the forefront. And I'm thinking of this radiance, but. I think it was just yesterday that I was doing dishes. And I mindfully. Brought some awareness to what was actually happening. And so I was washing this cup. And. Deciding to just wash the cup. Slow down. Remind myself of all. Everything that brought this possibility of even washing these cups. Into. You know, into being. And. You know, so it's just like.

[35:17]

There's these little glimpses. And my daily lay life is taking care of an eight year old, which. Can be chaotic. And dramatic. And what's been happening lately is. I'll catch myself. You know, my behaviors, my actual behaviors. Who I love. Very much will be a little bit. Frustration or. You know, hurriedness. Trying to make a situation in my mind, what I think is right. Right. Which is ridiculous, but this is where I'm at. And. What I'm finding is after sitting quietly and there's a little space between us. Then I can bring myself into. Just kind of a curiosity and investigation. What's actually happening. And there is this. I don't know if it's even the radiance, but there is this kind of. Glowing beauty of life. That I can be aware of and realize.

[36:18]

But. I'm having a hard time just like the in-between. And also I actually give myself a guilt trip. Of having to, like, it doesn't come to me until. I'm sitting a little quietly or have a little distance. And then I'm realizing. So then I might, like, as for instance, Yesterday, then I decided to go downstairs and help grandma. Initiate. Get through the next process of the evening, you know, but it took. I'll guilt trip myself because it took me. This. Seeming separation of, you know, being able to get a little quiet and separate from the situation. To then see. And I shouldn't guilt trip myself because then I, I am participating. Then I do decide to go and participate and it is, and I know it's. I'm actually helping. We're all helping each other. Anyway, the, the talk today, I, I really appreciate. And I'm hearing the. You know, just bringing, bringing back that.

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There is the radiance, whether I'm aware of it or not. It, I mean, life is, is beautiful, no matter what my participation. And yet, and yet my participation matters, right? How I feel like it actually matters to, to this life. And I don't know if that makes sense at all, but that's just where I am. I really do appreciate the Dharma talk this morning. Thank you. Thank you. That was wonderful. That was exactly to the point. And even guilt trips are included in this reading. So that happens. We do that. No, we. Judge ourselves or others. But all of it is part of this. I don't know, maybe process. This. Alternate reality body Buddha. That is underlying everything. So it's true, though, that. Stop and sit up right.

[38:21]

Quietly. Gives us a chance to. Connect with something deeper. And to. To be able to be more patient, maybe with all of the difficulties. And I appreciate your talking about. The child, we have a number of children and number of toddlers. And at least a couple of people expecting more. That's really wonderful. And. You know, you're not a monastic. Residential song. Is explicitly. Right, people would be in the city, this city or some other city. And. Yeah, how do we take care of that? So, how is the Maya still here? She's what?

[39:23]

Two now. One and a half or a quarter. Anyway. Patrick has a toddler. Anyway, so. Hi. Our practice is exactly. To connect with this radiance and then. How, how is it? It's not that we express it. How, how do we meet me? Reflections of that. In our everyday activity. Thank you. Please continue and please be kind to yourself.

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