Joshu's Way Is Not Difficult

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my
okay this is
the third talk in this practice prairie that i'll be giving on my co on which is a case to and blue press record just you a real way is not difficult
what i want to do today is too
do it a little differently than i've done in the past and actually we've into this are the three other cases in the loop with record that also reference the same line from the public face of mind by the third and steps ancestor the railway is not difficult
so what are you do is i'm going to start reading the case and then can fill in a little more just kind of have i want to proceed in going through this and whatever of kind of an adventure today

joseph spoke to the assembly and said the railway is not difficult it only of horrors choice and attachment with a single word there may arise source and attachment or there may arise clarity this old monk does not have that clarity
do you appreciate the meaning of this arena then i'm aghast if you do not have that clarity what do you appreciate jersey said i do not know that either the monk asked if you do not know how can you say that you do not have that clarity
judge you said asking the question is good enough now make your bows and retire
so what i want to go into today with as come on and leaving the other ones in and also a thinking and to face and mine
it is kind of when i think it was the heart of the colon which is joshua use practice and manifestation of teaching of non-duality in josh's own unique way
and rather than just started going through a lecture what i really want to do is try to paint a picture today i can have an impressionistic picture of jesu and his teaching
and it makes a lot of sense to me because a lot of
the depth and the
what affects me with joe shoe is not just the had the words not the story lines the plot but a unique quality that shows you have said he brings into everything that he does nourishing that he says
so
it was that to sort of you know mentioning a statement has been native jesu which is that in the interest of this his ways of speaking and and what he says that his lips emitted light
and a
and what this means a lot of ways this that window she was speaking and responding to a you know his his students is that he's not using words and particularly literal way concrete way
and it really whenever i think or this it brings to mind
he the line in the junior money the does not reside in words but a pivotal moment for instance fourth and again and again this is kind of by joshua is doing he's using words and as own unique way trying to bring forth the pivotal moment that we
help is a mugs
i see what he's trying to get it

so the the line that starts off this come out of the real way it's not difficult it only imports picking and choosing the opening lines in the
faith in mind by the third ancestor kashi citizen
and there are three other cases is it looks like record which i read now that refer to the same lines and this will help us just kind of fill in a how in different situations tissue is responding to
responses and questions about these lines
the first one is case fifty seven
amongst said to joshua it has said the real way is a difficult it only of course choice an attachment
now what are non choice and not attachment
joshi said i alone and holy through a heaven and earth the have said it's still choice and attachment who said you country bumpkin where our choice and attachment the monk was speechless
k fifty eight
a monk as chair your so often call it the words the real way it's not difficult it only approvers choice and attachment isn't that your point of attachment jersey sends a man asked me the same question once before for five years later i still
haven't found no justification for it
and then case fifty nine
i'm upset the jesu the real way is not difficult it only employers choice and attachment if you say a word there arise choice and attachment
how then can you go about helping someone joshi said why don't you quote it to the end
the mark said i have only this much in mind judge who said you know the real way is a difficult get on the airports choice and attachment

and i wanted it also go into some in faith in mind it'll kind of comeback to decent place in life because
this this conversation the fact that it's refer to the challenge here refers to it often isn't very very important thing in his own life and a when joshua had his great enlightening experience with nonsense send a
it
come on
the a ordinary mind is the way so we see a lot of a the faith in my coming through
why such as pursue illumination
and you lose it
and
nobody to seek the real just extinguish your views
and this year right sort of look at these particular coastlines and other commenters of joe issues they get it again he's coming back to a lot of the basic teachings in face in mind
which is really all about non-duality
so i won't actually as part of our painting that we're doing
touch on a few things in
his mind that can you stand out for me right now one is in faith and minds are just a lot of this catalogue whole catalogue of dualities things that
you run across or get it again picking and choosing love and hate for against rasping rejecting right and wrong subject object likes dislikes going staying a version of
affection fine course

some of the things are really stands out in terms of looking at these cards and jesu
is a things like do not pursue conditioned existence do not abide in acceptance and emptiness in a way eighteen i just replies today the month it will be a as initial statement as obama doesn't beside the key
rarity we couldn't touch on this don't find and acceptance of an emptiness
banish existence and you fall into resistance follow emptiness and you turn your back of him
and then but a the
cause i'm later in the and case to where the most starts asking these other questions delving getting more intellectual excessive talking and thinking turning from harmony with the way cut off talking and thinking in there is nowhere you cannot penetrate read
returned to the route and attain a principal
pursue illumination and you lose it
do not abide in dualistic views take care not to seek after them
and i really appreciate this is a take care and in a way in our practice again and again is is this taking care not just seek after dualistic view is from our city of south in and things come up we find ourselves getting attached the things we go after
then we come back we come back to our breath our posture we take care not to seek after the various things and arise
in as soon as right and wrong arise the mind is scattered and last
another wonderful the i really think a lot that just blessed with which
you speaks of joshua and his practice let it go and a spontaneous experienced will going or staying
in this question this the city and gift in mind in the the fibers or weeks to have been working with his come on is this issue of are going and staying and questions always back there are where is joe show let's go she loved him

another sense of getting kind of the flavor of jewish yoga some of the comments and notes by ingo who has written the introductions to these colors and he uses a lot of barry
interesting terms one
because joe shoe a thief in broad daylight
and then he has this wonderful comment
that comes his notes on the question or the mug back to joshua clarity and not having it and he said
have you see it
it case out here
i believe that this

if you don't know how can you say you do not have that clarity in a ghost comment years look where's the cash you're going he's chased up a tree
then joseph replies from up the tree asking the question is good enough now make your bows and retire and ngos communist lucky thing he has this move the own thief
and it's a seen through a lot of these things that the joshua joshua is being tested in try and get tracked and he finds these ways of turning in the simplest way
in another come a thing goes on this is joseph move to where it was impossible impossible to know he turned around where it was impossible to turn around
and when i think about this i think about a lot of things in my own life and i think that has a particularly a it's a graphic example of you know how my mind works in terms of you know how things were
work at home we have a lot of blackberry patches and it's as though joshi was someone who can get to the middle of blackberry patch and he doesn't find himself getting stuff clot and all scratched up just fine with these places and
you know i find myself
i'm constantly getting stuff constantly getting pulled this way in that way responding to things like like and dislike pick and choose love and hate
right wrong
grasping rejecting lot so the whole litany
well these things yeah coming up out of of conditioned existence that i find myself so often tangled up in
he just as responses in involved these situations are spontaneous original that the least bit contrived
no cliches it just doesn't repeat the same teaching thing again and again
it's as if he's engaged in a spontaneous dance with whatever's going on around him finding the right move and the movies coming because he's just not getting stuck anything
these things just passed through you can fit through the i have a needle you can just about anywhere

and he teaches you know the was profound dharma with the simplest words
like and move of communication and or what know just a simple response and you know that know has been going strong for over a thousand years
the oak tree and a gartner
wash your balls
well these simple little everyday things that are really kind of you confound our ability to wiggle around with discriminated thinking to try to fix things up in a conceptual framework
it's just what's right in front of you
what does it teachings that we have another miniature our family so much all the time this resonates through here says what's in front of you
thoroughly be present with what's their don't get untangled don't get try to control it of figure it out find out what a
the respond your responses response it comes from that non dual perspective
be it is great ease

there's a wonderful
a line that ingo has
in his notes on case fifty nine
it's is wrong to say that he had words or didn't have words nor will it do to say that his answer neither had either didn't have words judge who left the on behind all the permutations of logic
and if this quality injunction exact i find really
enriching rewarding and
you know stay with it infarction yeah really these cases over and over
flickering you know wow this is come from interacting just absorbed in to myself this way if that is an antidote for my own grasping picking choosing
wanting things to be the way i want them to be
all these
diseases of the mind is a third ancestor it that take what is not difficult and makes it into the most complex and arduous of things that takes one would not lead to a problems
all into a can constant reinventing of problems creating a more problems just trying to work out all the tangles all the tests
so how did this is often
henry edge of the future that they want to try to paint with joe shoes and
go back again to the
case fifty seven fifty eight and fifty nine her
just back again the different ways that show shoe is dealing with
you what comes up in this simple little statement the real way is not difficult

now what are non choice and not attachment
just an invitation
yeah
i know that i would be really why just jump in and grab
and go into some kind of explanation just you just steps back in
goes to another place i love and holy throughout heaven earth
candidates
country bumpkin he we are our choice and attachments for joshua there's no choice and attach them this but a monk is looking for seems like choice and attachment
and tell me this is that there's a other ways that you can be that is not choice and attachments
in fifty eight
when not gas is that your point of attachment this transportation to citation and a man asked me this same question before the five years later i still haven't found justification for it
and again it's a
i just don't see what you're getting it's not there
if
the case sixty i one of other things that
i think really interesting idea really
right
strikes me as when the monkey as well how can you go by helping someone
and joshua is why don't you put it to the end which is
really
the struck me in
and it's what really got me to saying i just want to really go into faith in mind somewhere and start looking into it because there's nothing in like you know why don't you go to the end and you get past a sort of getting stuck on the first line
see what thirty ancestor is trying to say go through the safina what the hello
cuts through all the face that get in the way of
a separated from the way for making the way so difficult but it's really not so difficult
and so you know this
why don't you go through the end
the
is
he was among these are really been the her
the real kind of important thing for me because it really as is okay let's go through each one of the instincts that go through and see where the
the helping words of the third ancestor are
so that's about what i have three
he wanted to say today i really like as much as anything else since i'm really thinking this truck more as a
i try to get an impression that feeling
a feeling sense of joe issue it's way such as i think when surgeons talked about his practicing with suzuki insists watching men and following him which was so meaningful it's how we learn so
try to get this feeling this thing looking through the
various cases where joshua was going through this again and again
how can i get no tuition see where he's trying to help all of us with
yeah i liked come to serve open things up at this point
thank you
so you say something welcome predicted
having both people notice that know
only ally in the holy one is a quote from will
shock you ready within seven days old guess he liked seven staff as a minute and you know that will get one favorite to this guy have yet to the grounds and throughout they will earth and in the holy land
really oliver said that only one that's just me but
helped us with
when an indigo logan says that is it a little boy needs a little kick in the air
the
a
the other the
it was not been for cases to deal with the same thing that's it
so the last one
where did you quote to the yeah the letter it go to the route to quote on the ss
the he said
but for innovative magical us the question why don't you and then joshi said why don't you call a miracle drain
if the whole taking on the way through the whole faith and love is the whole teaching in beswick joshua getting a nose simple words the railways are difficult
the and only
a poor choice of effect
hello
they will never met a picnic
hmm
prosecute
and so
the the are
in make choices
does that mean that they are not walking become a great way
it's like when every verse says when you come to a fork and road taken
that's a choice but it's not picking and choosing it

my crush departure for syriza what period future issue with
the second part is own
and i saved it think that joe she came to this space by on
by neither resisting attachment your cleaning to emptiness
for
and there and therefore came into harmony with nature or maybe with it
annotation live there principally the ninth century is born in seven seventy eight dialing eight ninety seven the age of one hundred and nineteen
the the tang dynasty calm down to the thirteenth centuries it
if a o h yeah also very smart yeah is born and seven seventy eight like service for is usually is is practicing and teaching career recent the night nightside yeah and a joshua had a great awakening
with a teacher nonsense
and he asked nonsense
about the way and not send retired ordinary find the way and joshua then asked the questions about
are seeking it and
i said
seeking it was get it will receive from you you will be able to get it and then it's as a follow-up question
health and if i don't seek after it will i know it
and nice and replied with a great way is not a matter of nine are not nice
so it's like you're trying to to seek to look for
getting your game

yeah again yeah are you stay them maybe i'm coming a little france and the younger sons by nano coating for it was much later this is created for these came in he just basically said somebody asked him how he be found this e bay
basically said that though he still had his resistance at certain you know what was fighting him but he found that at the right moments nature provided in the time so he would be very calm when he was in like battle or certain areas and then on the way to temple thing
he's all is upset with be there so he he just came into harmony with it so it appeared fifteen he was like a with it also seems interesting hector
thank you

come on
thanks for we'll talk
ah you know like you know a strong extension of my life is one continuous to stay
i'm
for we have an ngo whole life where you are eleven comes the business of the visions is using it so much different flavor
then say avoid picking choose are you find it
very harmonious prodigy but since so different then
a
then then real life this the friend for century
in in real life yeah we we do my choices we do have to do things and on
seven don't get stuck with him and if we do make a mistake we just let go of it and keep guard whatever it is just
refinish it refinish it
and i don't think it's it's if such a difference because
i think what joshua's was talking about is not a never doing this or that or the everyday life but how do you too thanks in your everyday life and not be stuck with them and not be comparing things
it's not one thing over another better than another of and
matt cassel and of contriving
nah duality includes everything
it's not like you can separate something out from you know the universe
it's all there is all pardon
manifestations of buddha-nature it's
it's never we get into a lot of you have thinking stuff that because
test your in

then sometimes he was a mistake that mistake is just very it
this is just different flavors of same shift
i'm thinking of the the to
two of the cases that you
the two cases to circumstances
which is
jokic up that
can check the question does not include eight differently right
one first one the clan one wonder
that we you know it's a point of entry is no and then later he said yes
yeah
the
first case that your your core case
this not does not a by clarity right that separates says and then ah yes i think what's next for hundred and one s and fifty seven fifty eight i alone am calling
ah
does can you say something about those different perspectives are different
he's coming from the he's making a different point right yeah and can you articulate that
well i didn't have a bite and a clarity that villages yeah i'm just not stuck here you it's like this the duality clarity and choice and attachment to delusion and environment and i'm not sticking neither one of them i just
i'm not in that game i don't use us yeah
and
so it's this just freely moving without any
this is where i am places what and
with the guy along and holy it's
this feeling of like gets
oh universe
my true self
the servicing institute of a fantasy answer to that
not taking not choosing right right okay yeah
and the
i think that physically and the answer to your trying to
if you have any regrets this already got this which were going to choose and he didn't choose either this whole years

stop someone yet
get a back to that create ways that she's not difficult to use a different translation and like is it doesn't have or attaching her it only a as attachment insurances and yeah yeah that's where wondering how the great weekend warren
that's so much of the great waves quarrying it's the way wave just describing it if you want to be in harmony with agree that way
then
a cookie choose choice natasha it's an animal sounds like relieving out choose

the there is picking and choosing and then there's picking and choosing this not picking nutrition's

two
if one does something with
wholeheartedly thoroughly is they're picking and choosing
in that package

i just turned off
f

if i less how you describe what kind of man he or she lives in learn
i like a good thief
the

i think it into
this match ashu this guy have really highlights my confusion about this
it
he seems to be all
please correct right said he seems to be all about faith as little room for doubt
i might be like this
here

can certainly chaussure now had his tab
which is what led him
here
is asking nonsense
and
yeah certainly
these cases and what we have recorded and jojo is that we see
yeah it is
some clarity
on
no because we don't see
his tap
he seemed a records that somebody else who are using the records left out his house now i think a lot of a lot of this the the records we have of people especially back packed in europe of are there to present something right
non-duality are some aspect of the teaching
unless it's you know that the cases in which
enough will get a response is that leads to realization
but a new tissue certainly in his life
he had doubts that has understanding it's ready
it took the nonsense that's why he
practice
never thought such ashraf
ah so in in his resulting southward most for head is writing in traveling eradicate monasteries are teachers that an efficient to hammer he was for

i i can really say i mean thursday
after her
nice and i painted the traveling around and with see
desire to test this understanding
so you say that you still want to make sure that you know he had isn't it is understanding this complete pharaohs is one of the same as in be rediscovered stoneridge is that if i meet a a a boy
seven was more understanding and i'll learn from him and it's a hundred year old person who has less understanding i will teach them

the towards the end of your tuck you is sounded like you say that and you wanted to read the whole of the same thing may not just get stuff on the first part of it you wanted to read this that's what i hear you right yeah i mean it as a as the opening lines which
is the great way seriously
difficult

yeah i really want to kill yeah i haven't read then you're going to some time and i was waiting for that and i did and this is what and this is how it was
know what i found in in and in in really hadn't going through it is

an appreciation for that notes and
just a marvelous and situation

have we are on was ways to
very carefully
famous clubs

i'm confused by i like something he said you've got more visits of joe shoes for meeting the sing said yeah here just you didn't write the sanctuary neck brace
yeah it can be just us think that are
i just use excited to work a lot and i don't think he was just talking about the first lines and
there are a lot of things and
you know that
ah
yeah i think are connected to what does he told him and so we just kind of filled in and assist the center of
yeah just looks you this and really see and then seeing how in many situations josh's response can be seen as coming out of
as that basic edition and the basic teaching your success
unique can event in life but certainly
put together in a very nice eat
in a way
the solar system
fix it up
what what its highs and to look at jealousies caught and effects to that when found
what is a bit like me

the
think that is one other things that
he said the other day is
in doing this i find myself
i realizing more more more more to what i don't understand
instead it's sort of living with to just sort of living with
is
what is this account
this is
how we see when i don't know to stand
i said the in a t recently said
practicing increased
i practice is going to stop it

i'm just gonna say that them well as yourselves
greg davis i give them a film like it
we can never work with people are you have six weeks to deal with it usually takes ten years
the the that she says a wonderful spot to have something to pressure and to my system
so i think
you have to understand with appreciate that
appreciate
there were recommended something together and whatever comes up this is
the pressure of having to deal with this
the message
ordinarily really think about that the like a time it's usually if an editor or something it's not understand that sometimes and said he is great something that's amazing
with my giants said them
so
i like appreciate this time
also the shin me me
need work like that the first words make the same address kind of here
so
yeah understated yet let you encounter and that's what's happening
so basically it's a reference including a joseph understanding this intimate an internet europe understand the judges understand it's effective
it stimulates of us to prevent