How do I take this practice into the world?

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Koan - Zuigon: Every day calls Master, answers Yes, Saturday Lecture

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a number less than i the chance to choose in the life is going to the be moving
hmm
good the is the perennial question
i'm in iraq and practice concerning our practice
and so on
which is
ah a kind of
misdirected question in a way question is how do i
take my practice into the world
as if there are two different places
as if we were taking something that he had some one thing you take company and simply else
so ah
often we want the car
to know well how should i relate to my by so how can i relate to mean people have more
ha ha ha hideaway control my children as practice
how do i take this practice in in in apply it to all the things that i do
that is a kind of misdirected question
the question is more can't should be more like what is the common denominator
for all activity
whether it's in the zippo are in your home or in your workplace or whatever or in your political schema
how do how do i address
ah the plummeting economy
so
ah what is the common denominator what is the fundamental thing
what is that the fundamental attitude
that no matter where you are
i'm is a truthful

going to use this cohen as an illustration
it's a colon is very familiar to us
zooey gone
cause his master
zooey gun osho called to himself every day
master
and answered yes sir
this then he went then he would say
stay awake
yes he retained
henceforward never been deceived by others know i won't
hmm so mama mister boomer as a comment
he says old zu garden buys and sells himself he takes out a lot of good man a god masks and devil masks and put them on puts them on and plays with him
what for
one colleague the other answer me one way to wake fear other saying he will never be deceived if you stick to any of these you'll be a failure if you imitate reagan you will play the facts
in a moment verse he says clinging to the diluted way of consciousness students with the way do not realize the truth to see the birth and death through endless aliens the forecourt for calls at the original self for the true self
hmm so
ah
the megan who has some know chinese zen monk
every day he recalled himself master
they would answer yes sir i guess you say yes sir
which came at a milky way back to high
a typical
he ah
so
this brings into question
who is the master but does he mean by a master
mr
meister
master
ah
zen master maybe
i'm so master is is calling me saying master
the mean his ego or herself
when he says master he's addressing his good nature
his big mind
hmm master
so mrs
ah
who is the mantra that that is a an old on
which is a good go on for everyone who is the master
who is the motivator
where where the where does this i'll come from
what is what is it that controls me
what is the source of of my own activity
what a way where does my activity come from spring from
where does my truth come from
first of all contained in this
terminus
address master he's addressing master
enter the answer's yes sir
ah so when he says master this is like
addressing buddha
when he says yes sir this is himself
is when you feel this himself
this is accuracy or like to say where half an ordinary person and half buddha
they kind of illustration of have ordinary person half gouda
he's addressing buddha has master and then he's answering as
ordinary person yes
then he would say be wide awake
but what does it mean to be wide awake
white awake ah is like ah without any idea
to be really quite a way is to not have any preconceptions
nothing in the mind
it be totally wide awake
mrs
ah
go big mind secure you to talk about big mind and small mind
big mind is like totally wide awake
because it's open to everything
there's no partiality and in this mind
totally devoid of partiality to see everything as it is and allowing everything to be just as it is
many answers yes
ah yes sir
henceforward never made to see by others
for this is
when it means to be deceived by others is not necessarily other people
this others
not to see it can offer we don't be fooled by anything don't be fooled by the ideas that you have in your own mind
don't we don't be fooled by her own mind
don't get caught up in new delusions
well how do i know it might earn my delusions
ah don't mind is open totally open
with no preconceptions
with no assumptions
i'm fishes
true knowledge
without partiality
so
he asked himself and the answers himself he poses the question and then answers the question is if it's two different people
a might come in all zooey gun buys and sells himself
he takes out a lot of god masks and devil masks netherlands he takes to part is this is like a stage play
a puppet play one puppets thing bomb
master the other same yes sir
this is a this is like a little drama that's cooked up by tom
oh man
and so he takes out a lot of governments
devil masks and put the mind and plays with him much more when you do this
one is calling the others answered
one wide awake the other saying he will never be deceived
if you stick to any of them will be a failure
if you imitate to a gun you will play the fox
so if you stick to any of them sticking to one side or the other side sticking to buddha or sticking to ordinary
ordinariate buddha buddha is ordinary in soca them
ah ah
the fundamental sort of them is sentient beings and buddha than a two things
sentient beings are got his buddhists are sentient beings so we have these two aspects of my life
huda an ordinary person who goes to work
who the school
who takes care of the kids
is it buddha are you

so in i am
ha
ordinary person is com we say big mine and small mine big mine is
when the mind of it's totally dark
in other words
it's the background of everything
and when lightning strikes it lights up everything
so it had this contrast of dark and light
but they're not too different things
so how do we live in enlightened life
in our daily life
when we sits at him this is big mind know i no preconceptions no opinions
everything gone
just big mine
so big mind
which
ah
he needs nothing
there's nothing to game
there's no place to go been just here and now with this
but small nine is the mind that
indeed schools
needs to have
ah
differentiate between good and bad and right and wrong and so far so this is what we're faced with on time how do we make choices based on good and bad right and wrong i want i don't want and so forth
and this is this is the lives that were talking about how do i take
a big mind into the into my daily life we don't have to take big mind into daily life just simply
stop having opinions
he might as always there but it's always covered up by katie mind
shut
and but it's natural
you know to have any mind
it's natural to have goals
and in our work life in our daily life
we do have calls
so is a small mind as if it was something bad and he compared to big mind
but small line is simply
the mind with which we operate in the world
it's not bad
we say hinayana and mahayana and hinayana is a kind of
ah negative term for a certain way to practice buddhism
but actually it's not
you simply narrowing something down we actually practice healing and practice
when the buddhist added with a my on an attitude
so i practice actually become very narrow and in that narrow practice
how much is very important
hum
how we operate in the world
so
how do we practice all the time continuous practice which has does not depend on circumstances
has nothing to do with the circumstances whatever circumstances there are
which create problems which we which we ah conceive of as problem problems are not really problems
there's simply ways every problem that comes up is simply an opportunity to practice big mind within ah
within our activity
so how do we do that
if we all are always aware a big money
always aware of don't be fooled by things which means don't get caught by anything
and always come back to be made
which is
to let go
within our life of taking on things we also have to be letting go at the same time
bill we sink our teeth into something and hold on like a dog with a bone
you know we were not always aware there
how to let something come and then he go because there's nothing to hang onto
the only changing circumstances
hmm so
zuniga and osho always called to himself everyday master
it's not that he called every day he called it all the time
all the time master not average big mind big mine big mine always reminding himself reminding his big mind
and answering yes sir
many would say be wide awake
be aware and other words always be aware
so no matter what we mean how do we always be aware
so that's why purchasing the regime is waking up let's call waking up
we fall asleep and never wake up and then i mind drifts in every wake up so in zazen
the only thing to do is to sit up straight and breathe
that's all there is to do pure activity with no motive that this is pure activity
and then our mind drifts and then we call out
wake up okay we come back yes sir
orphan over to over and over again can call to as i wake up wake up okay
and there we drift into dreamland and then wake up wake up okay
the this is how we practice in our daily life the same practice is sitting on the cushion
we find yourself drifting awaken
wake up and waking up means letting go
because in order to wake up man for the go
this ago leaving a simple life
leading a simple as means being careful of what we get caught by
we say
ah at things are catching us but actually we're catching them
nothing can catch us
unless we wanna be caught
and so favorable circumstances will come up things we like what will come up and things we don't like woke him up
and every day
where trans migrating are transforming ourselves through six world sometimes when in read heavenly realm symptoms were in the hell realm sometimes when the fighting demon realm for the hungry ghost realm of an animal realm
and we simply allow myself to practice in each place know in the six worlds each in each world is a bodhisattva
that's you keep how do you bring up your body surfer mind
help
letting
letting everything come and letting everything go to to be able to actually follow through the transformations
and not get hung up by the transformations is like a river flowing and then the visible eddies and the edge
when you see the water circulating and that and a little twigs if are circling and then pretty soon as a kind of build up
don't let yourself to their is fashionable to a strictly
so how do we stay in the middle of the stream
the no special formula is no formula is no
ha
rule is simply always been waking up to two to big mike
which is free of everything
hmm
so
moments is
i clinging to the diluted way of consciousness students are the way do not realize the truth of the diluted with the diluted way of consciousness
getting caught in our small mind
i'm not getting beyond it
he says the seeds of birth and death scene at birth and death through endless aeons the for cause of the original self so busy that birth and death is called the realm of karma
where our actions
oh ah create the circumstances were being caught in a small mind
the fools cause the region yourself

you know and when we
someone told me recently that
she she goes to work every day and when she goes to work
he entered the office and she realizes that she looking for something to be critical of
should i realize that i'm looking for something to be critical about something to be angry about something to be to accuse somebody of
this is an example of being stuck in a small mind
to meet every situation without a preconception even know we think we know what's gonna happen but we think we know who somebody is
when we
a stick to our idea of who somebody is then
ah that
i am
we are
stop the process of allowing him to change
even though i know who somebody is i think
and i know what their reaction is gonna be if i put the only way to address this person is to not have any for her my mind at all
and simply respond to once there because was there today is not necessarily what's there tomorrow
but we tend to create an idea about something about a person

and then we get stuck in her idea and then we have a partial understanding of this person but not a complete openness
this year so have head monk had students when they have issues of ceremony after the practice period and everyone asks the question
the only way to add to respond to the questions is not that anything in your mind at all
and you have to be able to trust that
you have to be able to trust them i have no preconceived idea in my mind at all and i'm not going to explain anything to anybody and i really don't know anything
and the person asked the question and improve
because there's no hindrance to the final answer the vital response
and this is the way we practice in the world
instead of oh i know but that's about vanilla to just have an open mind because you already know everything
we're already know everything
but we have to learn everything that we already know

hmm
and when we have an open mind
a mind that's not dominated by preconceptions people respond to that
my teacher always had an open mind
and all students responded to that and he didn't do anything special
have you do anything special at all the only special thing he did with them another mind and a very special and very rare
so
practicing the world is he's actually the same as practicing the zendo
just for the circumstances are different
so how do we find our freedom on the cushion
how do we find our freedom in our in a when we're not on the cushion
it's exactly the same
do you have any question
oh ross
how
i've been talking to myself on my right to work and i time was well
i thought to get a little crazy
divided
we ago i had about is provided for off my shop it
some
with the process of through ah
i
i'm feeling that on the cushion
our
asking ourselves for yourself to wake up
basically a
nine
my out of the world package workshop we going to be careful when you're talking beautiful
oh
they not to be fooled me i try not to be just muttering you know
we find us of butter a time when get the way around way to do that
i was problem someone who i respect the life
that's me
bobby where the muttering it's like small minds developing a raise up you
this printed not my way
exactly that's right
yeah that's bringing up that's you don't have to say that in a calm several reminisced if you if you imitate through a gun than your facts right you have to find your own way of waking up
so
i'm driving really good example because we finance of muttering all the time most of us
and and tender you you can take a step back if they this necessary wake up now i'm show no and kind of relaxing
mrs the radio or
and i just flow with a face until he had the opportunity to go get around now try to your india people been delia people drive with their horns you cannot drive unless you have a horn
and even in traffic in with a stoplight
even though people are stopped at the debate everybody's pushing their horn
i'm like criticizing the ideas
the and drivers
but yet
as the chemo key
talked about being you're being the boss of yourself that's it
when or how does that relate to this master
i'm
come
i mean when you wake up to big mind stay awake and big mine new the boss
because nothing can control you
nothing bossing everybody around me that that nothing can control is of events it just to me has to on because you like to use english american terms
i don't chicken out and things like that
to be the boss you know he picked that up which you have an american term pediments don't get caught anything
linda
sometimes it feels screaming much higher
than other times yes
solos
like those different grounds how and hungry because sim cards and everything sometimes maybe we'll call it back because some of them are retired and heavens
so sometimes
the experience you know like say you're handling your body needs to like you have physical force just painful things happening and so instead of saying yes sir he said forget it shit on you know like really bad reactions
a moment when it's really hard when it feels really hard and party to snap and your mind he said
something we're just leaving ourselves about to have any advice for that both that's been cut by something
we've been cut by her
resentments
i would say in that case has been caught by resentment
i resent this happening to me
so ah
when you recognize
just is just you know i'm being i'm allowing myself to be caught by resentment
wake up
this is a dream

dream yes and we think it's reopening
when you dreaming
someone you feel that you're in a dream you feel something to and when you're sleep but we're dreaming will run away
so things a dream
the whole thing is a dream to wake me up means
wake up to the dream

but we have
so you're saying that we have an expectation that we should not have is painful states and when we have them he resented and then last year when will really caught
but didn't get on god
burning a difficult space we could they call that expectation that we shouldn't have a different that's right vegan
resentment
his kin
yes
yeah
i have this do these things happened to us
right
painful thirty seven but i'm
we practice with those things how do i practiced with that thing where i practice with his pain or with this
and then that brings us back to what we're doing that wakes us up
when my compounding the problem
t
it's a fascinating
time oh
the children are already listed if back in remember ended evenings or what often you will help me with this is a more difficult situation if i had time to the presence of mind
how am i heard of this about a really nice
you can do their kids oh absolutely
the everything i notice i didn't and consent to be getting off i will miss there a better something really mundane i'm looking for that a salt shaker
and i'm thinking so much of african from the south shaker
they don't feel it's right in friendly and i know it's not the my vision is going it's hello i'm thinking about a salt shaker instead of seeing their religion
totally

i know that running
i had a completely
life as he wanted
hello
no i'm not happy i'll tell you what i get older

know you had a question
track can remove them
yeah
i'm only struggling with it
and were correct
here that often
and i've been practicing all the time time
not way
oh
hello
and
it just done
it's not like
is tell yourself wake up
it's like waking not telling yourself rica
it's like drawing local
but you haven't built a house
and learning how to really wake up is building the building in which different withdrawn right
and dozer for me separate still and it's tell myself i'm feeling agonizing here
starting to function as well my people causing more states
etc
cousin were cobbled and may be causing what are you living
and i understand yes and with would wake up and stop me that and stopped running small my run away with day he get caught up in the
but there's a difference between able to say that yourself and
i understand that we should be doing and actually building a house and so so building the houses code
creating practice
how do i
how can i actually create a practice which is open to you to do
and then it's not wake up is how can i wake up

he is he asked that ask yourself that question
how can i do this how how how is the critical when and yesterday
how
when something when you made an obstacle
how can i do with it
how can i wake up
but it only it if you read and you need the foundation
so
ah for us in this practice he said at every day
and which revolves revolves around the practice
the practice revolves around thousand can you build a foundation so that is actually easiest factory
what is no easy or hard
like because you're not distracted
because if that is because cells and teaches you how to do things so it's kind of like nothing i can dream
when you are challenged
right right neither the you know if if you pick up a baby elephant when it first born and then you lifted every day
with
the bathroom
something like that yes know somebody's will come equipped and who has never practice and say well how can i stop being angry all times where i can tell you how to do that but that doesn't mean you can do it yeah a scientific well start practicing
it's all the time of the years without you doing a reading of reference how did you see what your mind doing what your mind
it's not like you said that didn't go in you know
forget about it didn't come back again when you're not feeling good

continuous practice
then
at this
my
i'm not so i get through the efforts have more in line for higher than the effort sometimes and so when there's a situation that comes out and is my film cantankerous man i can't like gold that sometimes i to find know i bought the angeles and new
he might be self indulgent like this you think play out the i had a while
this action going on very consciously knew know is that that's good
the better
that's good mine
goodman
yeah
because
if you try to do some me too hard and you feed yourself
so you know without petrilli feeling guilty
getting a good teacher of about yourself
just like you know i can't handle this i'm just going to do this right more than i can deal with now and he so you have to have something to fall back on
well it was you get so frustrated trying to do something
good
that didn't you start checking yourself and i'll live so the committee is yes you have to kind of watch the tv in every day for a week some fish then
and any comeback right
so that's the way it is it's not a straight line
and given the complexity of our life
it's really hard to maintain their practice my off time
fear can use up a break and fall into dissolution desoto dissolution not disillusionment dissolve yourself
you know ah
because we're creatures of habit and it's hard to change ourself so aetna we don't try to change ourself we simply
you know over a period practices slow progress is slow to not fast
so how do you live on each moment that's the whole the point is how do you live and each moment moment by moment
without
a timid maintaining stay in big mind is to not connect the last moment with the present moment
there is some connection but this moment is totally empty
and this moment is totally empty
but we small mind can make all the dots and kill an creates a kind of continuity of activity
and then we caught up in the continuity of activity
and lose the sense of each moment is a discrete moment of emptiness
which is called nirvana
yes
the activity and strong
the not appear which is even
have you even know the river not the kind of jays
but there are activities to take place and not an action international south
wow
how as much as i can try to grandma's apple
remember the and then i'm going to for now
but there there's action this will continue it on relationships things like that often
no that's the question
that that's how do i do that and each moment because within that says in
emphasizes
the emptiness say
and daily activity is like bit
the movement side
so within the movement
is stillness and within the stillness it is great dynamic activity
it's just the flip side of things
when you sit exams in within stillness it's called a great activity great dynamic activity because they totally your whole body mind is totally alive totally functioning as one
if you really practices and correctly the tremendous energy all the time but it's very smooth
and oh and you're in the world of activity the yeah totally
still while moving

so it's not if you're doing one thing in the other is shifted is the flip side
so that when it when your movie
this
he's within the movement is within the activity and centeredness and and pump and and still point is ready the center of your been
which is informing all of your activity
the alligator is coming out of that still place
for your always center
as you get eccentric
so that's i think we have that kind of android
well we do have been