Harmony Of Diversity

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this is a session but it actually is like a thousand guy doesn't chi is you set aside a certain period of time where you just sick
and but this is a vase and guy with a without talk so much i can do
hybrid as
i things tend to be today
i'd be that as it may
ah
i'm thinking about you know how grateful i am to all of our members who are making you a really good effort to continue continual practice given all the topsy turvy
events
the present the world is
ah going through great transitions
and ah
for zen student to keep our mind calm and focused and
a living each moment completely
is
to being practice i really commend you all
one when i began when we started the berkeley zendo nineteen sixty seven i thought of it as
serving the local community
berkeley and
little by little it has developed and over fifty years and felt maybe fifty letter to now
so
ah
and what i realize is that it's the kind of international
ah world
welcoming
a place to practice
i was going through the i'm our directory both than sensitive directory and looking at ah where
everybody comes from
ah
last week we had a familiar with this week last week getting
where are we had people say
no
oh take to managed to talk about their new era of background
ah their entirety background
and so i was looking through this directory and to see where in the world these people come from
all of you actually
yeah are
a immigrants and they are also people have parroted one heritage or another
ah and all away from the midwest the d midwest of america usa to afghanistan japan all over the world
and so i wrote down the various places where people come from
and
and will read a list it won't take too long although or thirty extensive every place in the world
almost the we have iranian people
plenty of jews they love this the you know i got to thinking about ukraine
and eastern europe
and the jew and to so many jewish people i come from the eastern europe and ukraine to america to their ancestors came
a late nineteen century actually has nine do
and all of their offspring is a grand chip grant mostly gradual all mate and since at her
read in my remarkable ah there's a great reunion events convince students from the ukraine and eastern europe and mid europe and other places
but it just and heavily in eastern europe
who all meet in berkeley at the brooklyn center in san francisco denver and all the others and centers in america
so if applicable
i'm i'm talking about that anymore
so we have people from france
native americans
africa hands
ah scandinavians and one sort or another english japanese ah finish is
a scandinavian german korean norwegian irish chinese
scottish afghan amir
i did
italian mexican
east indians
spanish
hum

det on danish
tennis filipino
i have to come lashes and cinnamon
dutch turkish
i'm
a swedish most scandinavian but still
ah and then there are diverse
europeans because here the
the body's inherent are always moving so they're diverse europeans and diverse asians and the various hybrids you know
and the unknowns the great unknown
people who don't don't really know where their but their heritage's ah
because in the
bite my experience and i know the experience of any others is that when people came to america and the one should not remember what was going on in europe or what was going on and in their homeland they just wanted to let go and start a new life and so the children don't know
really have much information a lot of the children don't have any information about their background
but it's all very interesting
ah but what i've what pleases me the most is that
of all of our diverse backgrounds are meeting together and practicing together in this wonderful way and the reason we can all do that is because we don't depend on anything
soon as you depend on something that you attached to it and then you think you're better than ah are more important than all of the other things that people catch to
so with nothing and were no assurance we can cannot meet in this zero space
and ah
a real as they were all the same and are totally different
although we have all our differences we can let go of of of differences and meet together in this emptiness and which is where we all come from and more we all got to and when we are all time anyway
ah makes up for that practice vital and that's as include everyone
and whoever comes we don't care what were the came from
ah as long as we all throw a lot in together in this empty space
so ah i think about this a lot and that's the thing that makes me the happiest but makes me really happy is the fact that we can all harmonize everyone everyone were no matter where we come from
ah
ah our diversity is winking gives us our energy and when gives us our happiness realizing that we can enjoy people from various places and everyone add something to r m
the practice
so to me the most and what makes me happy this is when everyone is practicing together
upholding and appreciating where each one of us come from
so me that i grew up thinking in a way to i grew up in the thirties
the forties fifties sixties seventies eighties nineties
you know and three weeks i think little over three weeks of be ninety one so i've had lot of experience a little bit of experienced and i'm seeing the various changes that have gone on in this country and the world over that time
and when i was growing up the thirteenth i never known another a president and his the rules are lot
until the fort until the middle of the earth the end of the first second world war
that a long time that whimpers the poor terms
i
and then everything started to change after the war
america it was all we all believed in democracy
everyone playing for democracy almost i mean every i know
and then think that can be changed we trusted the military we trusted the police to be trusted we know it had always trust and then just ask and breaking down when a
the extreme selfish
i started taking over
does and leading us to where we are today
on
democracy is hanging by a thread
democracy to me always made everybody shares together
the real will appreciate everyone else this is the melting pot of the world so the thing that makes american gray is that donald trump
the thing that makes america great is our
ah diversity and harmony of diversity
and it's about to be great
i mean i can tell you who to vote for
but if you don't vote don't complain they have no room for complaint
burton can we get your mike a little bit closer to you and your little bit unclear
okay i'm not going to repeat with a facebook photo don't repeat any henderson
cause this
the other source
the estimates
estimate but it has his that's good
okay
ah
our members are ill
i'm trying to put this into words
ah

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i don't wanna talk about politics not a good idea it's a good idea but it won't do it
but am
ah
this is the time
long earth fine
this is a time when ah if we don't do something
ah we got a republican will stop living in a totalitarian state
that's the idea that is the big takeover
that we have emperor instead of a president
someone who is a president for life is called number
ah in the imperium called the united states
so
don't be fooled by anything
ah
but i don't know everybody really wants to live in democracy
i always thought everyone did
the thing that made america great
where's the fact that elvis diversity
you go to other countries and then like tribes
you go to israel israel's tribe and couldn't join that tribe even though the a cultural i belong to it
when i was looking for a teacher
i was looking for a hasidic rabbi
in the bay area there was nothing like that that was way back there who knows about in my early twenties
but when i fancied suki erosion the erosion japanese priest
ah he was indeed he was actually the the hasidic rabbi that i was looking for
the natural and he became my teacher just naturally
elena to try very hard to find him
i just fell into his lap
and the can realized this is the teacher was looking for
so ah
he was a very unusual person
he did he didn't
he wasn't attached to his tribe anymore the land was attached to my tribe and ah
so he could rise all rise to the occasion
democracy real true democracy whenever that is to me it means i will share together
ah then we choose leaders who promote that

the
teaching hiroshi you know always talked about the pentagon big mind residing in a big mind
not a national mine but turning over a small mine to a big mind that big mind which includes everything
sounds like a cliche in a way we can talk about it a big mine and mind enough but actually big mine means includes everything and wisdom comes from the mine yet encompasses the whole universe
it doesn't come from the selfish mind or small mind
or desire or
ah came in mind

when our mind encompasses the world we begin to understand the world but a big mind encompasses the whole universe we begin to understand something that we don't know
don't know not knowing the more we know with the more we realize that we don't know

so anyway i do it totally i don't know what we got here we got zoomed
he or me filled
thirty nine me and unhappy and see you
yeah you'd rather small
you're going to supplement he gets a small me
yeah well the small me cones are you martin you're sharing your screen please on share
i'm not i doing even know it's not you it's serene garden you're sharing your screen please on share
who who's supposed zones year
oh there that we are sharing thank you
so anyway i when i had to to and say is that
ah
where you know how how how do we stand upright in the touch in a word when the world is upside down
that's a are gonna practice at the moment you know was in person
ah
not letting anything address
you know if we become upset of course to become upset by things but how do we find our balance our we find their bells moment by moment ah and an improvised
when something that we depend on is no longer there had we improvise
that's trick and that's it makes life interesting at this particular time
no really have a home
ah
where is doing james
and when those ways of doing things are not no longer there what are we do
we just live each moment and time one moment at the time this is a regular she's teaching courses
his teaching that he learned from his predecessors
i'm just be in each moment totally

be in each moment totally were and moment at a time don't think about well why don't we gotta get back to the zendo
don't think about that
just think about why you are now how do i practice now that how electric and wish i was back into i do with so this great being back in december but i don't depend on this
so wherever we find ourselves in town where will we find herself and whichever situation that's where we are that's how we practice
don't get ahead of ourselves
as soon as we start thinking about wishing it was different
we lose the presidents
we lose the present moment
there's nothing more precious than at present moment
that's all we have

so it's wonderful to be here it's wonderful to be
my
hermitage
it's wonderful to watch dog
pet the cat
to study the books
dua train ah hopefully support ourselves that's a big check for a lot of people supporting ourselves but then that's a practice how can we help people if they're any alarm students or members that need help we should know but that
and support it
and of course our neighbors we if we can help our neighbors so
how we ah
to actualize our practice
can be a gift to our neighbors and friends then our saga
and ah
the far reaching
ah effect of were sincere practice and the way we support each other and that way we break the said thousand together hence this effect in the world around us
so
as dividing us how do you notice
that
and so we are so it's a little practice because that's a feminine
a zen practice is simply about what's happening by now
it has no special shape or form you can learn we have the trappings you know to send down the road stuff about the actually it
taking care of each moment is it appears
with for or attention
so i just want to encourage a of practice since on
everything i talk about the simply to encourage and practice
so maybe this is a good time with them to
you have a question or two
okay thank you surgeon and for cumin a we have about twenty minutes want to hear as many voices as possible so we ask that you be brief and with no more than one follow up interchange there are two ways that you can ask a question
you can raise your hand in on the participant box or you can chat and chat your question to me and then i will relay that to surgeon or once if you do raise your hand please an unraced at once you have spoken
okay so ben has his hand raised it was not then
hebden
a surgeon can you hear me
loud glare okay
so my question so general she is
is my big mind the same as you are big mind how many my there's only one there's only one big mind
we all share it
is we and reshared in diverse ways but we all belong to the one big mind yes
so the big mind of the ancestors and everyone in the past that big mind is the same big mind your including the crickets in the ads
thank you surgeon work
add hertzog has his hand raised
yes hi hi soldier
what prompted you to grow a beard
what laziness
this is the this is bedtime for alone
listen buddy gene students then
women can do this and so they have some other when doing this to action-packed
whether put the guys you know i noticed the and
i've never really grown one like this before so
and i don't really enjoy shaving
and so you know
a
i see this time also you know
i said a condom
time and
and there's a kind of a relaxation because the things you don't have to do that
even that and you didn't know you had to do them
and a for me as can lean back to a nice laying back for a cup for a while that was looking back now what busier than ever but for that's that initial time
i can let go you know and just cricket that's the hero
let your hair down
so there's no special reason ah it the more like amusement
i'm susan ocher has written to ask that to let you know that you look very handsome
thank you thank you see
ramen has a question
who rogoff ombre go i'm raghav pay for the can hear your debt
because i met phones on it i wasn't sure
so we come from arm and it as we live in a glass and then we go back into emptiness ah well the we don't go back to angeles
on
ah emptiness is another coming or going
this is
right and the emptiness is alive i like finally which means that is totally fooled
right so what will replace the charisma you come back go go to emptiness and and come from mt minnesota and he is just is
like this other this is it
mtb is interdependent
for everything depends on the reveals there's no coming and going
the will within coming and going is emptiness
it doesn't depend on is know it in ago nothing there
see there's no such thing is nothing except everything is nothing
right we just we just have our current experienced this moment experience that's a yes but also we have the memory and the in the
imagination and of other realms but basically amateurs the when you are not just
and
we have to take care off we take care of things you know i'm
we we just don't certain thanks
and
we get entangled
gwen
for the whatever it is
but this is like
ah this is going to keep the circle of life scares going to keep going on and on off
you know the energy goes energy keeps going yes yes
black
we have to find
our stable presence
and
and whatever we do
everything is falling out of buildings every moment
every moment like i'm sitting here and i have to find my balance every month like we don't even necessarily think about because it's so common the book
an as squeaking is but
the movies
the are streaming site
the most common thing is the most real thing which we don't really ever usually recognize
we have to sit still the recognize it
and that's all we can do right that's all we do agree we sit still we take care on
everything that comes into our view and we keep doing that over and over again well that's a simplistic of
it's it
will it
come back to your original question about empty
a form is empty empty his phone so let me instead
all forms are empty of inherent existence why i thought i
in other words in order for anything to move has to be space
like
otherwise everything is still be here
the had a caterpillar
so when his movement is the stillness within movement movement within fillers in other words as long as soon as soon as you start dividing things into it like good and bad right and wrong this net the opposite you're you're you're eliminating the alpha
that you saying oh this is right in their throne but right has them could run good has them good evil you will have time to cook it sets that because we live in a dualistic world
as soon as you said it's separate he didn't say well this is the right well that's the would although there is right and wrong good and bad and all those things because of them in a dualistic world once side brings up the other
the hunt bring the two sides together as one is i practice that's called living in emptiness
you're welcome
we have a question from blake it's suzuki roshi ever speak about the civil rights movement and or the death of martin luther king jr never
he doesn't like us from japan
you know he was a
he probably knew about by the i suppose and civil rights
ah ha
i know he had been through this sino japanese war or the
and
he had seen and the and the world war
and so forth
yeah
and he had a know that no matter how much we try to make things right soon as you make em right day the sexual important as you make a film
ah
this is a up our problems are present problems you know
similar rights it's about those are very important and very you know but in hyrule and a different level of the bigger wider level these things are always going on and
when there's something called progress in the something called regress and progress is what we're always looking for were not liking for rigorous but were soon as you start making progress regress is there because it's the opposite
so you always calling whatever you do you're calling for the opposite as well
so that's not what he was interested in he was entrance as interested in us
rising above all these dualities
perfectly
i remember
when he was a move there was yet not more and think it was
and
somebody said
why aren't we are there marching
and then soft
then ah
it may have repaired angry not that he was not against the war of course you could you give the war but he knows the wars that
ah
this is the piece is more again
the war to end all wars remember that that was the first world war this is the word and of photos and now have more than we've ever had
because people thrive on wars
ah so you know we should continue to fight for peace even though it's impossible
we should ah and work to end all wars even though it's impossible so if you really even if you realize it's impossible you do you know how to work for it
but to expected
there will be a final solution that's what it means that
the final solution
hey your final solution because we live in a dualistic world
deaths from so instead of
trying to deal with a dualistic world
how to make it and it into a unit unified world so yes we should we work for a unified world but a unified world also is only unified with the duality of the world

so
he didn't talk about stuff like that that's never he was interested in it
he was interested in the bigger picture
because as long as we're are just fighting in the little picture it'll never work

dar young has his hand up
i am
you have your hand up away your face you see me
you can't see you can't see me know
oh can other people see me
i want to only to see you instead of me i'm talking to myself here you know
i've read shorter
your
hey you a great yeah i agree as i gotta have a picture of you for a moment
and your your red shirt right right that's me that the you are stay there have any wrong
why can't going on here my kids like a i'm not sure
maybe it's my maybe it's my internet connection is bad i'm very you or anyone it's a great nothing
actually you haven't changed a bit thank you
sony sony twenty eight years ago we we saw each other yeah well it's done when you talk he disappears or when i talk you disappear package thefts i a ghetto so on anyway you know dianne from iran and he was just a hard man
nineteen ninety something to return the nineties and has ever been he was a zen center for a long time san francisco zen center and i so he went back to iran and he somehow or another you can like my talks and rewire but and he wants to publish them
in and so into working under for a long time editing by adoption is wrong and maybe put a fuzzy or something like that
and english so
i just want to let you know who he is you have a question yes yes i do ah
ha
in the context of impermanence and
your teachings of right in the moment we are dying were coming to life
the expression were self creating yes how does that
expression that were self creating ah apply to a situation where we are
instantly dying instantly coming to life how do we apply that her self creation
within that context
you know
everything we do leads to something to eat as a result for every actually leads to a result they are basically it has good karma
when creating your own karma which means that a volitional actions compensate for the original actions is a relational actions
create a result every action creates a result in so the action is the is the action of the moment and the result is the result of the moment
ah so whichever direction we tell when we do something once
ah we have that we tasted if we do it again requested that we do it the third time were cooked so we create passages passageways
i'm in one thing leads to another and because we do something it leads to a result and the more we do it with the ball we become attached to the result and so self created of time is the matter which direction you know
you
i keep recreating yourself go recreation
so normally normally we'd do this we live unconsciously in the sense that we we live but if we are self creating consciously in the sense that mindfully yes therefore therefore we can
totally changed our life yes you can change the that's this is the thinking about karma com is not fixed is not fatal is not fate fate means fixed whereas karma is not fixed you can always change your global that's the
buddhist understanding
which it gives us allows us to have our freedom that we're not stuck even though we will be stuck
yeah we we
i know we we choose that
life gives us problems and serve how we deal with those problems is how we create ourselves
so it were i'll tell everyone built a hand
and though this is my head lowered a nice are no good terrible you know so whether the hand we get is nice job of the way we
respond to it in the way we work with what we're given
ah is how we create a life
thank you write as well said would be with this occurred to me that to this wearing those this movie japanese movie called on transitions were this young guy get gets an accident or is a hipster the
they get japanese
it's only it gets
in an accident and then it becomes a priest and he becomes this priest
ah he's wondering why people commit suicide
and some people are all all these people that want to commit suicide but don't know how are learned or not sure i'm calling him all day and not night and he's dealing with the people are there is one person who is a
yeah two children and he's always talking about committing suicide committing suicide you know and the priest is get taken in by this and the choice to i know
your like this where slot in any should be grateful along with he tries and this disc of the on on on the clippers i i want to convince it that in the princess and know duncan survey
if i going they preach i would say you're already dead that's why you can commit suicide
you already did cancel it that's why you can commit commit suicide and you should try to find out how to live now that you did
anyway i just went
but in other ways like you're making your own destiny you creating your own destiny
thank you you're welcome was really good to see you thank you