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good afternoon
the record run
thank you for sticking it out
sticking it out
last i looked was ninety six degrees
yeah well
it's very interesting too
see if we can figure out how to relax or form
you maintain our form
i really appreciate us you guys can turn around if you like i appreciate everybody making that effort we've kind of dress down a little
you know but arm
we kept the shape of r t
in an appropriate manner
it's an appropriate response to me
and i have an an appropriate don't shun story to relate before we start
this case forty three from the blue cliff record
you've all heard this before
a monk asked to sean when the cold and heat visit us how do we avoid them
don't shout replied why not go where there is neither cold nor heat
the monk said where is that place where there is neither cold nor heat
don't shine said when it is heart let the hot lead the he'd kill you and what is called lead the cold kill you
and i've been sitting here not dead yet
but just
city year through through lunch and now actually
just dripping and enjoying it you know just like okay i'm hot
not a problem and begin a problem after like
two days of it but it's not a problem now it just is just the condition that we're in
it is one manifestation it's the present manifestation of such this ah or it is a present manifestation as such miss there's also the such this of this tea which is delicious and cool

so i'm gonna go through a bit of the hockey as a my the purchase marry somebody and ah
maso millie open to
how to questions in in comments and i will not i will tell you want in up front
i am not ready to explicate the double split hexagrams
i'm studying it ah i feel like i'm beginning to get a handle but ah is very complex you know
some people consider this ah this poem
ah
hello
life ah
considered this poem a bit of a hodgepodge you know and i can understand that there's just it's image piled on image piled on image that are not you know necessarily they don't necessarily flow from one to another there's not i don't i don't see an oath
over and over arching thematic structure to it ah he's just
he just ah
are coming after the after the
national statement
ah the dorm of thus this intimately transmitted now you have it so keep it well
ah it seems like don't shine is than coming at
what is the teaching of lushness coming at it from multiple angles with a
you know a barrage of the traditional images images drawn from or
from classical chinese poetry images drawn from the from the book of changes which predates this by more than two thousand years you know he's just coming out and this is this has actually
somewhat the way we see dogan approach or his teachings that ah they'll be an assertion you know a proposition at the beginning and then he will approach it from multiple directions and actually
that is the point
the point is that
such this cannot be approached from any one direction
and that it can't be pinned down
we can catch a glimpse of it pinches a bit from her for various
aspects kid
now

russia

metaphor or is it just

well
you know i would say to me neither of those is a
is really how i would describe it i don't think it's really a hodgepodge i made it it it is perhaps linguistically or or image image heuristically but there's a point to what he's doing ah but i don't think you can say even with
some of the images that he chooses and some of the
some of the metaphors that he uses are they are not
they cannot be pinned down
you know they're really what is arising you can imagine this is what was arising for him in the moment as a as he was composing this poem
yeah and he gave it some form it has a it has a form you know it's are
it's for characters per line
you know it has an and rhyme it has you know it's not formless you know it's not free verse
but it's a multiplicity of of images i think
hi robin
well that's the story

we don't know anything actually well of course that's always true right
and no we don't really know anything about the the arches or the provenance of this particular work it doesn't appear ah
it doesn't appear in the chinese tradition until the middle of the twelfth century and it's know supposedly it grow it was written several centuries before that so that's it's first appearance
and so we don't know where it came from its in some of that story is it is the
what don't shine said you know on these stories could be apocryphal he said that account data
huh
on or transmitted this to him
at their at his dharma transmission and then he from he transmitted it to couch on
ah the the chosen ah which is why it has the it had to use for a number of centuries as a as itself a transmission document
yo hago
have you were saying about my broken but together right different
with them in the second day yang
yerevan that it said
arrow
now he doesn't shoot at it know and i don't think guess what happens to be regularly
oh maybe okay right yeah that would be against all right it's all from chinese classical tradition yeah yeah so i would suggest that is david i mean i get it from this they've been saying this a hundred different way for a long time like putting it down here this guy is
lightweight then said during the he hit the domain well he's putting it down here for a reason you know it's not that he's putting me down here because it's a good story he's putting it down here because it illustrates
it illustrates the dharma of lushness all of these things our illustrious of the a of the dharma of lushness so they are relevant stories and he you know he folds them into the yard
you know the work that he's making
lori

yeah

yeah i think it and it is because he makes it so
and i would say you know that that trend you know all art
all art is an act active borrowing or an act of stealing if you will call of it you can't have art that is not referencing something that came before and ah you know think about
bob dylan who borrows lines endlessly from other from other songs and other traditions ah and you know some people think that's plagiarism and some people think that's part you know and
that's i don't really have a problem i have a problem with that yeah
so one thing i wonder i was reading this this afternoon and just to we may not get very far is right ah the mirror
so evidently ah
one of the chinese texts
there's a claim that mirrors were hung in the meditation hall has an aid to meditation
ah so it's not just an abstract the the jewel mirror is also it's the mirror of your mind it's the it's the
the quality of the mirror that read that simply reflects everything that is presented to it that doesn't ah doesn't contain a mirror is not a painting it doesn't contain an image within itself ah but evidently there's a fair amount of documentation
ocean that that they were mirrors hung in meditation halls ah as
an need to reflection if you will
henwood i've actually it's city of ten thousand buddhas i've ever been there
they have a they have a precept hall an ordination hall with an ordination platform and that precept room is it kind of red enamel but the room is hung with mirrors it's all mirrored so you know did it that's the the manifestation have on
i have enlightened mind so when you're in that room it's like you were inside the buddha's mind so that's another ah
the mirror sir
also increase the amount of radiant light in that in that room
so it got judy

yeah
no

right and we will get to that when we when we get to the the next couple lines in the palm actually ah ah if you talk about a silver bowl filled with snow
a heron hidden in the moon
so the silver bowl ah when the silver bowl was filled with snow both of these
represent both of these have qualities of of gleaming us and whiteness right ah and the same thing with a heron hidden in the moon the heron is is white as it flies across as a crock flies across the moon which is which is white
so
when we look at them they both have certain parallel qualities
but they're not the same
you know ah the snow is not the bowl the heron
will fly out from beyond the moon and will be distinct and we will see it ah so we have to have the ability to see in his case would i think the point is that ah
we are looking at
what is really
but it's in the next line taken a similar they are not the same
not distinguished their places are known
so ah actually in a lecture of surgeons he says ah
these lines concerned the phenomenal and the real or the ah form an emptiness if you will
ah and their relationship he says this sets the tone for the whole piece although they are too
they are one and although they are one
they are too
so that's the interpenetration have these seeming dualities they have qualities that are ah that are common
and they also have a distinctness that allows us right away to be able to determine which is which and yet you know aesthetically
ah if you will will you know i'm taken with that that image of the silver ball filled with snow you can see it and of the heron you know just barely discernible against the the disc of the moon events
right
right ultimately it it will melt especially on a day like today

one of the things i noticed as i was reading
last night is that
there's a whole sequence beginning with the next line
the whole sequence about language
ah so the next line is
mean does not reside in the words but a pivotal moment brings it force
know bedwell i'm gonna get this there's another

there's another translation
which i like ah
ah so this is a
translation that was done by toshio nutr our and master zhang yan and cause ah the meeting kept meaning cannot rest in the words it adapts itself to that which arises it's it's really interesting to look at these but what i was noticing is that
throughout the poem there is a there are a number of statements about the the nature of language ah has he seen it so ha
you have ah
i had collected these someplace when sick

oh hear this
although it is just too deep just to portrayed in literary form his disdain it with defilement
ah a few lines later although it is not constructed it is not beyond words
a few lines later it says ba ba ba ba is anything said or not in the end it says nothing for the words are not yet right
ah
so you have ah
you have the reliance on words
which also is is something that we see in dogan again and again you know that he's a master of language ha and yet there's also the the fact that words cannot get at it
so the meaning is not them
the the translation of we used to use which i think was thomas cleary as the meaning is not in the words in response to the inquiring impulse
is right
ah so it's actually the question
the question about
ah
the nature of my experience was as as sojourn roshi often puts it ha
he likes the question how
how does this work
say this reality that's unfolding how does it work for us
and as soon as you are just a portrayed in the re form it stain it with defilement as soon as you try to put it into words are
you're going to miss it your dumbing it down and yet
to me there's something really wonderful about words ah
i love the words
and i don't believe in them as a kind of absolute truth but i can enjoy them for their own for their own expression
the words of a palm the words of a song the words of the story they create each set of words creates its own reality and its own such this
but it's not the same as whatever it is it purports to be describing right
yeah
a pivotal moment for it like i think i
one and i i have it and it doesn't mean anything i feel like into a moment and oh finally i understand what size and by the end of them were doing here i prepared with the words and i'm happy with the words are strengthened with the word that the coming
the wall or
we're
and then again not the same were right but it's not the meaning of the words
right
it's the meeting of the activity or to the meaning of whatever is manifesting this is that makes sense yeah you can say he forth in words
just what i'm hearing and then carry them like a suitcase and the issue unpack them at that moment what is anyone else think
about what what a gorgeous a defense

even

yeah i don't think you know we have the same stuff in our school we had a but yes it is that's that's how you would work it's one way to work on a call on itself as you're actually working with you're working with
a teacher because the coin itself ah is constructed out of words and yet it's pointing to something that is beyond the beyond the words themselves suit

you mean the streets are reading this
oh

but your response to that bowl with ice
what did that your mental formation refer to these lines
ah
so that's mental formation right that son what we're putting ourselves to about sankara you know it's like and that's what i'm saying about about art that you can't get these you will see a silver bowl with ice or snow in it and you'll remember these lines
and they are called constructing a reality
and very it's it's it's interesting

oh
why

yeah i'm
was something i was gonna ask you about the silver ball
i've lost it at the moment but i wanted to find a ba ba ba ba the charlie precourt is
it's defensive commentaries

why not while i'm looking
yeah he'll go

green

we're here this
ah
so that that line
ah

no i don't think she did oh here we go ah
let's see

in one of the one of the commentaries he says
this line is indicating that the sutras are no more than the incoherent babbling of an infant
ah
yeah
say

ah
right
but that whole
that section
after he says just a portrayed in literary form is to scan it with defilement couple lines later he says although it is not constructed it is not beyond words
you know ah soak words or the medium
of our consciousness that's why you know i'll take a for sue ah
you know when she sees a silver bowl filled with snow
her mind is making the connection with this line it's really i've told this story before you know you can know
there are different things you can do to really kind of short circuit your mind you know it's like we depend upon our association so so
easily and instantly you know but i remember once on a having a psychedelic experience where somebody gave me an ice cream cone
and i didn't know what the hell it was you know ah i really didn't know what it was and if i didn't know what its name was or what it was for
it was just an abstract shape now i was somebody sent me straight very quickly but but i remember i remembered really
you know what is this and that's that's really a moment of of not knowing that a moment of of a kind of
what pre language and from time to time we can get we we touch on that but mostly not mostly are you know our thinking is is configured by by language so even though it is not constructed even though it's for
seamless this or it is such as even though such as includes everything and cannot be named or described ah it's not beyond words in the sense we keep trying to
get at it which is the function of this whole palm to get at it with with words
right yeah
i do
i'm glad
the fixing i write without drugs that with at an art show
limited right recovered by the way i saw this show ever getting and it blew my mind okay
noticed that i didn't know why my mild looking at it the and i came downstairs gift shop and i see a book and it's alice meal
decorating
anyway i thought it would benefit i read it a allies meal
what is a light meal right
i realized with the artist alice neel right my mind has been open so that i could read these words in a way that was it
why would be there for their having proposed you read this all the way through without making anything other than behind in meeting and yeah by my focus and you
no and air right and you will you may notice some distinction but you mean you know you may not notice distinction you may notice it is one thing it is the silver bowl filled with no one thing and you may not know the name of a silver bowl
or the name of the snow you will see the whole thing has as one like a lice you know
ever thought of this the snow and the bullet one thing right so this is what is this is what suzuki watch dogs about he says naturalness means may be more flexible mind without sticking to something rigidly
said when when we have when our mind is perfect this is in this is not been edited this is the transcript when our mind is perfect freedom from everything and when our mind is open in everything like a mirror
the mirror does not have any particular image on its face always so it is naturally it will naturally have various images according to this subject that is naturalists so it will just read the the mirror does not cognize ah or or make distinctions it simple
lee reflects everything that appears before it this is you know this is
one of the wisdoms the mirror wisdom of equality is one of the five wisdoms as described in the yoga chara school and ob
it's it's the wisdom of equality is just same this of everything that appears in front of us
yeah

yeah i'm a she probably didn't stay there
right right
right
i think that data
this other translation is interesting where this says although it is not constructed is not beyond words
ah mincing
my you

yeah one second

no no way second ah
okay i'm in the cause translation of about seven or eight lines downwards as either rejected or clean to words both the wrong like a ball of fire
ah
which are
that's really it's really it's interesting it's a different order of the of the vs isn't it
they went down lower
no
though it doesn't act it is not without words right okay right
ah
though it doesn't act
okay
it is the principle that regulates all relieving all suffering

this part about the words surgeon
sojourn road we have to get beyond the words reading the other side of the page
we do need to use words even the reality is beyond words but not to stick to the words
ha

i live work
experience

it were
ha ha
good
the panic points
you
he was gay

then
at it
okay
well she was she a it was at a protest in she felt a moment of our oneness with with the police
that's the story i remember under of anyone knows and present
and that was a transport routes transformative experience for her
so i'm trying to get at what what your question is
i think what i'm hearing is the question is how do we make these live words or how do we make these words live

i know i just wrote i just wrote some last night which

well i don't know you know this is one of the things that i wrote in the piece that i wrote last night was that i don't know anyone who openly identifies as antifa
and so i've not had an opportunity and i i confess given all else is going on i haven't exactly sought them out to talk to but this is what we need to do we need to talk to everybody you know he ain't gonna find out anything else by positing your position and
and then deciding whether somebody does or does not live up to it right you actually have to ask them what their experiences now that may or may not be a possible
option
you know ah
but we have to keep trying to to make that be a possible option and the same thing is like
in terms of a her work like this or text how do we make it alive for ourselves you know how do we make you know
sue gave one
you know told one story about the silver bowl with ice and hager was talking about something else and in a moment
unexpected and this is what it's unkind it's an unconstructive moment that's what what this poem is trying to do is to say pay attention
because
in any moment you can really touch the essential nature of oneness that that's they're all the time ah but it's hard you know and our ideas are what get in the way yet

okay that's fine
we don't have anywhere to get to you know
and we're going there fast
yeah
yeah

good

right

yeah that's that's a really good question you know
and heiko as the answer but wait a second ah
ah
that's the fundamental question of this poem you know so it it's there's a conundrum right in the first words
the teaching of rustiness or the dharma of vastness ah what a look at just
look at some other translations of that ah

all these lines are pretty similar
yeah ah the buddhism patriarchs of directly handed down his basic truth ah
the dharma of just this i like this the dharma of just just this has been intimately interested from buddhists and ancestors the fact of the matter is it's always been entrusted by reality every moment
you know so as soon as you go i know what i wanted to say so you you were talking about experience
so there's a there's a wonderful ah
essay by a victor soak in horry ah which is
ah
basically against experience
ah what is you what he says is that zen is not experience
in the sense that as soon as you call it and experience then you have conceptualized it
it is just the continuous unfolding of reality that's not reality
there's that there's a lion in it you know ah

right that's right
or mastering approached the genuine constant continues out flowing
yeah that's the other translation it just continuously flowing yeah karen
well
here we can allow it
getting out of our
i remember one
i was reading something
this really sad
then what
oh
yeah well that's
that could be really helpful or not we have heard that you know this is the thing is it because he's a good teacher and because we've had good teachers has dunk shot did ha
he's not going to explain that
why
right
right it's certain so what he's saying by using that word
as they're doing it here he sang look at it this way
not don't look at is is not
tis
just throw it in there yeah kurt

now

i'd like were
more
don't worry
right away with
n
going on
yeah right
the end of i
where
like a boy

dat file know the idea bay in lot over there
you
by
will you be a foil or an idiot
or a jazz musician you know you can just be what what he's encouraging his spontaneity in that moment but i wanted to read you something again ah
search and wrote about that that line the teaching of lostness he said this is toes on gift susan
was chosen gave this line and this palm to his disciple
it is his transmission gotta to so son but actually towson has not given anything to so zone rather he's confirming it
he's so in this verse what the transmission is is i see you
he's just i see you
i see that you are totally functioning human being has i am
i see that you are buddha as i am but i wouldn't even take it that for ah and say he goes i said now you have it is seen your buddha nature
and then to preserve it well
is seen so now you have it is
i see leslie's buddha nature and then he says then to preserve it well is to see buddha nature in every one in this room
so there's a particularity this is it's keep going keeps going wonderfully back and forth between particularity and the and the really larger picture and so
i see you in your particularity i see people nodding out it's it's really hot and hazy and i see ah a lot of buddha's awake or asleep in this room
yeah
i remember talking about reading even away
doing something and i said i'm i'm honored and i walk with that i realized i am honored
and this is that we were having a moment of whatever you might call it and that otter was taking me out of it striking a of word palace in putting it all angry
yet you are putting it outside yourself your well is the opposite of being honored by
right and yet we can't help but feel these things yeah rust
wanna now
and
biographical like yet yet with
shared with him
daily didn't get it right in that ended in the
anyone the word
right right
one
as
yeah
we'll get it like it
you get drenched in it all at once and actually some places you do though you know some there's some traditions were that's that's the deal you you
you practice a meditative technology that's going to split your mind open
and
my
just from what i've seen of that
it's very hard not to make that an experience and once you make an an experience then you're going to be looking forward again and you're going to be caught by experience because it's a pleasant experience usually and i wanted to happen again
you know but i think
in relation to what you were just saying
if we see if the preserve at well is to see i love this actually to see everyone as buddha
then what we can begin to glimpse
he is that
all of the buddha's around us are planting seeds hand you know when the causes and conditions are appropriate and right or seeds may germinate and flour and we will wake up we will remember something
something will come to mind that
we weren't even thinking about but it's rare to see that's been planted our mind our minds are so remarkable that way
when they have plenty
rosie
you're in your hand bad
other that there
that peggy
yeah
all that
the recognized by
yeah so here's another duality and this is this comes from martin was a king courting gerda ah there's enough stuff in me to make a gentleman and a rogue
that's that's the same that to see my dear you know right here within our tradition jerry
really all about
how much i will wait me
the wheel

well
sets
he said well

which means that the word
somehow
right

here it says penetrates
yeah
treasure the roads
basically we're putting ourselves
yes and this is what you know what akin roshi ah used to talk about he you know when people would he would say
enlightenment is an accident and doesn't makes you accident prone
you know yeah that's i mean yeah it's not just study it's but the thing is everything that we do mindfully and consciously has that potentiality right
right changes the internal climate and therefore changes the nature of the way we relate to each other
oh
here all because
i know it
right
why
right right
that
right does the heron hit the new moon and was the hearing hidden in the movement a
especially if it's if it's a cream sauce that it's right like a
i'm sorry i'm sharing here
raising questions asked
might not see right well this is one of the interesting things a away that i've been thinking about mindfulness ah
you know this we live in this age of ah mindfulness now ah mindfulness really translates as recollection are remembering that's that's what city transit and so
by
just by nature of language if there's remembering than there's forgetting
right so right so if there's something that we are putting our mind on
there are other things that we are not putting our mind on
the idea here and this is what would ah what i think suzuki roshi was talking up when he describes the mirror is to be able to reflect whatever comes whatever comes before you you know and that's that's actually the process of so
thousand that's the process of our thousand and presence of zazen of she can't as is sought afterthought sensation after sensation feeling after feeling
having some awareness of it letting it flow constantly flowing as it says in the bomb
yeah kurt
dad
the wrong
that
right definitely
right now
wrong
there are there anyone there anyway
gather their question rid of that a

right
and suddenly a rabbit was that
thousand
while
that he got that
rabbit
read that
wow
that that working again
that
year
yeah yeah
yeah with period saying that that when my tasting or with that
in everybody and seeing him at buddha it's also a lot of great a big thing in the moment they are outta if they are and do nothing we i don't know that i would say nothing with in a moment where you know my life
right that if you really realize that you've found yourself as
he's no you're not missing anything
right now i can be bought and wanting to meet somebody not but you're not missing anything away
right but you know to go back to something that that kurt was saying
you are talking about
what you encounter as accident said
right but you know so one cosmological vision there are no accidents ah and in another ah
like
the problem is we're going down the road and we see something
and that is an accident in the sense that we haven't necessarily created it we don't know we don't know where that comes from but the non accidental part which is a problem for us is we see it and we immediately have an idea about what's going on there
that is not great mirror wisdom you you understand that's that's actually mental formation you know and it's so hard to step aside from that so hard you know everything that is to sake
we had a when i was a rupiah couple weeks ago
ah we had a skype video with bernie glassman know bernie's
he knows he's kind of bottom line over the last few years has been
well that's my opinion man you know it just all opinions the four noble opinions you know ah no he's that's that's is formulation you know i'm not so sure about that if linda were here she would go to town with the had i think but yeah
yet
whether it's literally are absolutely true or not that's coming it's sort of the buddha yana perspective but the fact that matter is
it's very helpful to consider everything we perceive has our opinion had a good starting point it may not be
the totality of our of our existence in this world but it's a really good starting point because it it it means that when you encounter really is you're taking it as accidental in not reducing the to your conceptual framework of experience

well bernie's more colloquial than that you know it's just more colloquial yet
but he just he's his he's escorting the coen brothers you know that's true you know
he's quoting the dude well as just like your opinion man
yeah yeah
right yeah ed
yeah
i really like last line
oh let's see that

our goal our city
not mocking we're not talking and think we're talking
yeah

yes
they want their
that it
the day
there

such as zen is a school you know then is a you know particular saying i i want to take those in the order that he presented them and and also hear what other people have to say because our time is getting short ah
the thrust of this text to me
as is the thrust of of many then and buddhist texts is only half the story
the thrust of this text he is
really pay attention to yourself
so if you can persist in this way practicing inwardly functioning in secret playing the for seemingly stupid so that's you know ah i've i've said this many times that's the title of ah category wrote she's first book returning to silence
that's half of it we have to be able to do that that's what we are trading when we are learning to do that day by day year by year here
the second book is you have to say something
you know once you have this inwardness once you have the ability to contain yourself once you have the ability to see the constant flow of your opinions and views ha you still have to the bodhisattva vow demands that we
say something
so that's the others so this is the training that we have
ah that has to happen
if we're going to be effective in what we say
i wonder if agree
did not saying something
you are present and active
happy
are we really gonna say something
the transmit
it's not about words you know so i remember boy
twenty eight years ago had caused sahara her lecture this is a see that was planted for me a lecture by reb ah where he was talking about language
and you know he was saying a sunflower turning towards the sun his language
you know so it's not just it's not words it's it's everything that lead and this is why this is also have sent the incentive beings teach the dharma they turned towards the sun they reach towards the water you know they show us what is
really basic and necessary for all of life
yeah
yes the five ranks
what are they well okay to want the five million course in the five ranks okay guy i think this is pretty interesting actually ah so this comes by way of
a couple of people ah
my zoe resurgent got this from my zoom hiroshi when he studied the five eggs were laid out by by told by by dom sean and the a separate text what they're sort of embedded in this text they were then developed as a ah
by by hokku and i believe as a as a formal part of the rings icon a curriculum and it's a little different it's a little different system but but not actually there's there's two systems
so here's a really interesting perspective on the five rags ah let me tell you what how they are traditionally seen
the apparent within the real
ah in other words is the basis of reality and
you begin to see yourself in the context your your form in the context of that reality there's the real within the apparent
where you see that
oh but you think is your particular form or life is also
the absolute it's actually not separate from oneness
is coming from within the real which is ah
you have to say something
ah but what you're saying is rooted in years as and practice was the fourth his arrival at mutual integration
ah and so that's a relatively high
it's
it's also described as the absolute within the relative
ah and then the fifth is unity attained you know it's
it's the last ox hurting pictures were ah the is going forth into the marketplace would give bestowing hands but here's an interesting way to think about it ah

some ganji oh come on
to study the buddha ways to study the self
that's the first rank to study the self it to forget to self
that second rank
to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things that the third rank ah what's the next line
to be enlightened but
that myriad things come forth and enlightened themselves that's the fifth rank and that
mind and body drop away and that continuous that that continues forever that's the fifth rank isn't that an interesting formulation so i can there's a
just reviewed there's this guy delver cool in ah and
since the terms personal and universal use below were chosen to to pick the worlds of relative and absolute respectively
oh
other studies use of dryer designations of the dualistic a pair appears and he's he's also been
he's written about these are
these in terms of dogan hum
so the personal within universal at this level the universal once true nature dawns within the personal a new way of living in the world is unveiled one grounded in experiential certainty observation any agree so
ah you forget to self
diana versa within the personal here the universal is the dominant sphere
acting as a container for thoughts feelings and aspirations of the personal so that's what i was saying before huh
sales up spheres for yourself we study the buddha ways to forget the self note is this study the self study the self sorry that's no one to study the self is to forget the self is to so you're taking the big self and you're seeing this merger
coming from within the universal the inconceivable mind comes compellingly to the forefront introducing a new world of unity of the personal and universal and the universe is reflected within the personal this is a bit abstract for me ah the the next year
these three are i don't want to get into them too much because we will be talking about them and try to make sense of them forever and this is a whole topic in and of itself but i think
if you look at the verses of the five ranks and you can find them easily and just think of them
see what the correspondence or resonance is with with that first proposition and get your coin it's very interesting really it really helps on packet yeah russ
yet is right
right
so there's a lot more that we could talk about we have to collect the cups and collect ourselves but but thank you for this yes i remember
used the champ yeah
it has me
cause i was so wrong i like it
i'll talk to surgeon about it yet
yeah
ah that's a real with the one second
the third or the second
yeah
ah
i'm coming from within the universal i don't like i don't like we'll you know this is weird
eh
i don't like the term apparent and real you know i just really that just rubs me complete is wrong way ah
i i really do like guest and host and there's a whole terminology for guests and hosts that that frames the the five ranks
yes no it's board vessel yeah words the that the lord as the you know the lord of the manor lord as the the kind of big cheese host strike
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i want to hear a little of it yes i do
i think busy go ahead if you never
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right that's where we do it at you hire also yeah
ah i don't know it's nice

is it asian yeah yeah it's actually where we do that we do this and okay that way also ah hand at fire and it's really like it it helps it breathes life into ah
you know into these texts so
thank you very much we're going to ah
let's close with a
before vous and then we have kenyan
oh let's do you know what let's do the poly refuges two guys know the poly refuges people know it okay what
we're going to sit zazen the on we after this
yes i wanted i want of
let's do this will take a stretch for five minutes let's come back and sept fifteen or twenty minutes zazen let's close out with this is this is one of the things that everything returned to thousand