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we are numberless
and the days and journeys and dinosaur worked morning
well today the first
portion of my talk is a for the children
three children who
i'm a very regular
attendees
and
i just wondered know are you curious about this guy i know that is
well about one day
are you to okay
when there was riding my bicycle and i went around a corner it really over and my pedal hitler
the street than my bike when pressed when they were
and i ended up breaking a bone here
there
it looks like this is but this is not this is just two fingers taped together so that this one doesn't move because that's where the little breakers
it was all this stuff now and them
then teaser stars because i was a good boy
the
so that's about right for them
at today
i wonder around
ask your question
do you know i know you do but can you tell me what the four directions are
okay do backward left right
the
okay
that's very good
can you tell me what the other for directions
he is
going anywhere else nobody is spreading
east west north and south
so which way is east
right which way is west right which way is north this which would it so
so if you take a line make alone between east and west
yeah
and then make a line between north and job and can be so those are two lines
and they meet
did
so
this line and this line and they meet in the middle
and that's where you are
whatever you are
you are always in the middle between east west north and south

so
if you always know where east west north and south if you're always know where you are in a certain sense
hum
so
the place where those for meat is called here
it's also called now
here and now it's well them for me
and so you're always there were everywhere you were here than your now here now
so here know you're sitting on a black cushion
go around by cushion and the black is call number
the flu
that's towards the and food but they make one word under switches are true
the means city and food is the cushion
so needs a silly question
and then underneath the cushion is called the bhutan
the sitting matt
and underneath the tsar bhutan is there
zen though
the floor of the zen though the room was city and it's going to zen dough so ah
i'll talk about that leader so what is the big what is the zendo sitting on
the ground now what is the ground sitting on
that grass
definitely is a young
it's sitting on the ground is the xeon
yeah that the ground is like overthrown by the active excellent thing in spec well okay we get to that
don't jump ahead
so the ground is the grass can't grow where the zendo is because there's no sunlight
sunlight can get to the ground here some of the grass is going outside with some yes i was thinking that thanking to the cracks no way no
kent the sun can i get through their little cracks but that's a good thought you know that's called investigation now
stephen they sang can't get them from the open window i know but not through the floor
good sign
i like this can be cast out that there are working
get
a good sign
but it didn't happen that way so the preceding on the ground the ground is sitting on russell street
that's the name of the street and history and then restless street is in berkeley and berkeley is in america in america is on the world this ground piece of hundred a guy that universe
i'm out or debates
spades outer space is on accounts yes and go the galaxy is in a year they didn't get pets
that's it
i don't know is the best
we know we know that much but we don't know a lot more
we think we know a lot more but the we can try to learn more and more but
wherever you are the universe
your is where
here here now
here it now so when we do meditation
in this building codes are them
that is sitting and then is
just this
just just sit just say nothing else a that fit this do that
just click this sit up straight when you cross your legs
isn't it and we'd be very still
you replay statues
is to and chess him
now breathe
and listen
cheap you can hear just see if you can hear what you can here
just let yourself here is for our way as you can
and very still married him
try to be phil
maybe the hardest thing
huh

what that one's very good
and then the and rebound
i thank you for being such good gin students

i am today
i am service he had the a memorial service for a dog and zingy
or
as you know
went to china and brought back the so to teaching
the sodo school kitchen from china
i'm
which we practice today and
dogan is quite a towering figure in
japanese buddhism
ah
and his son
philip philosophical ethical philosophical works and
not really exactly philosophy because they you know and am
obama in the east philosophy and practice go together
abstract philosophy is not ah hum
i practiced er as abstract philosophy is not prevalent in
in the east because philosophy is about something about practice more than abstract thought
dog in
get ratings
are difficult but not because they're abstract but because they are all based on
the principle of non duality and the most difficult thing for us to understand is non-duality of duality
so duggan's works are much coins
i'm almost every line or paragraph is a kind of corn on for us because his work is that it is thinking is on in a non dualistic realm which is a basic my own of buddhism and beyond
so in on-road of dodian
don't get was born in a twelve hundred
diet and twelve fifty four i think and i went to china and as i said brought back this time
sort of them
teaching as is touchstone
and so i went to
come in on
his work which we're all familiar with called the wacom says mg
dalia and road through as mg
fair pretty was one of his early works when he came back from china
and
it is called the universal promotion of the principles of them
some thousand was of course donuts
a principal introduction or teaching and
all his writing a one hundred fascicles of show begins out
i really based on version
this very simple practice
so it's an amazing how
much he could
came forth from him
based on a simple fact of thousand
so i was up for con thingie basically means universal practice of the principles of thousand
and what it means
for practice
so
he starts out by saying and the way is basically perfect an all pervading know where the dharma the way of our practice is appropriate perfect it
it's okay a lot of terms that are translated
we have various shades of meaning
i can also as a complete the way is basically complete are perfect and pervades everywhere
we're always in the realm of the way whether we knew it or not
and the way is is simply open the dharma the dow is to be open
know the time
the boom on the gate landscape is always open and we have to do a lot through wherever we are and whatever we're doing but we don't realize it
so the way is basically a complete are perfect and all pervading so how can it be contingent on practice and realization know the words why do we have to do why do we have to do anything if the way is perfect and all pervading if everyone has buddha nature while beings are buddha-nature
why do we have to do anything to attain enlightenment
and this was dough games
a question
when he went to china
so how could it be contingent upon practice and realization
oh
the dorm and vehicle is free and unhindered
what need is there for concentrated effort
indeed the whole body is far beyond the world's dust who could believe in a means to pressure clean
it has never apart from one right way one is so what's the use of going up here and there to practice
this is joe basic question and then he answers the question
he says and yet
if there's the slightest discrepancy or division
the way is as distant as heaven from earth
if the least like or dislike arises the mind is lost confusion
so
if there's a slightest discrepancy in other words
discrepancy here means dividing
being dualistic
so for really understanding what the dharma is
we have to experience the oneness of duality
so
the slightest discrepancy is an hour

to fall into
duality like and dislike if the slightest if the least like or dislike arises picking and choosing
the mind is lost and confusion
suppose one gains private of understanding and inflates one's own enlightenment
glimpsing the wisdom that runs through all things attending the way and clarifying the mind raising an aspiration to climb the very to the very pinnacle of this guy so
wow these are all of course enlightened
aspirations
one is simply making the initial partial excursions about the frontier but is still somewhat division deficient in the vital way of total emancipation so
ah
oh
he's talking about
ah striving striving for enlightenment
what you may be striving for enlightenment and
glimpsing the risk that the wisdom that runs through all things attending the way in clarifying the mind and you gain this pride of understanding
so for dog him
and for any enlightened teacher
pride or
it's another term for ego
prior to understanding is probably
and their most of the with the the hardest thing to
control for one who is a experienced practitioner
when may be very learned and a
i have inside and so forth but if this pride of understanding arises is worse than not knowing anything at all

ah so
but what he's talking about here is someone who feels that they have
gained enlightenment
and they very proud of their understanding and feel that they are finished
that's really fucking back
then he started then he talks about the buddha and
ah and and other burn a enlightened people need i mentioned the buddha who is possessed of inborn knowledge the influence of as six years of upright sitting it's noticeable still or body diamonds transmission of the mind seal the same of his know
nine years of wall sitting and celebrated to this day since this was the case with their sense of old over with the sages of old how can we today dispense with negotiation of the way in other words
even buddha even jackie moon i shaky mooney
did six years of zazen before he was
enlightened and bodhidharma set of facing a while for nine years
so these people practiced
even though they were that had born enlightenment
so he he's getting to the to his point here by
saying that can
even though
we all are have
inborn
knowledge and inborn
intuition
we still have to practice it doesn't mean that get ah you don't have to do something so the point here is why do you have to do something
if we're already in it
we all have buddha nature and the inside why do we have to do something
so this is where he brings out his understanding that
practice itself is enlightenment enlightenment with our practice is just an idea
that's his point now
so then he says you should therefore seize from practice based on intellectual understanding
pursuing words and following after speech and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate the self body and mind minded themselves or drop away and your original faced will be manifest if you want to return
attain such this you should practice such this delay such is
zen
sadness in actually it's such miss
and this is but i was talking to the kids about justice
there's such myth justice
so of course you know intellectual understanding it is is an important words and falling are important speech is important but nothing is is important is turning the light inward so how do we turn to light inward what
does that mean to turn the light inward
i'm not a each one of us is actually a vehicle for light
human being as a vehicle for light
and when we
since as in the light
because of the limitation of our activity the light
it becomes evident and bright
if you light a match
in a out outdoors
doesn't make much difference but if you light a match in the closet it lights up the whole closet
so this is turning the light inward when you light the match in the closet it lights up the whole closet and then ah
that like
who becomes evident
so then he talks about zazen his sons and sons in is a word that is usually in rinzai zen beans
interview with the teacher but pyramids southern
as in a quiet room and suitable eat and drink moderately cast aside all involvements and cease all affairs in other words drop the world
do not think good or bad
this is non-duality do not administer pros and cons cease all the movements of the conscious mind engaging of all thoughts and views have no designs and becoming a buddha certain has nothing to put it over to do was sitting or lying down
the before postures sitting standing walking in why not
sitting standing lagging and lying down so
zazen is not one of those pastures even though when we said you know it's not sitting or
usual fitting it sitting in
just this
ah
so at the sight of irregular city spread a thick matting and place the question above it said either in the full lotus or half lotus position that's ideal but not necessary
in the full lotus disposition you first place your right foot on your left thigh and your left foot on your right side in the half lotus you simply put your left foot against your right thigh and
you should have your robes and belt loosely bound and arranged in order then place your right hand on your left leg and your left palm and your right palm and thumb tips touching than sit upright and correct bodily posture neither inclining to the left or right neither leaning forward or backward
be sure your ears are on a plane with your shoulders and your nose in line with your navel place your tongue against the roof of your mouth with teeth and lips both shut your eyes should always remain open and you should breathe gently through your know this is basic that's and instruction
and you should give you so basics as an instruction every time you said thousand
then you won't fall into bad habits
if he didn't fall into bad habits when you should try them when you don't give yourself thousand and destruction
if you know how to give you a some version instruction and you do that every time you said that it's really easy for you to give those and instruction to somebody else because you know what you're doing
but if you don't do that then you move touch with what is really going on the it doesn't so often people will be sitting but they're not sitting thousand
ah
also when he says sit
upright and correct bodily posture don't lean forward or backward show but so as and really depends on balance
imbalance ah his
basically balancing our
upright energy
with our ah
is or relaxation
if i say relax
relax asthmatic a good word to use resulting
because then people will think you mean
but to sit upright with energy for energy
balanced with ease
so the the the balance of
a total energetic activity with total ease
that's how we should function and that's what we should only have been working toward all the time then you don't get tired
you don't feel you didn't actually induce energy
and you feel this freedom wonderful freedom
ah so
this is a once you have adjusted your posture take a deep breath inhale and exhale rock your body right and left and settle into a steady immobile sitting position
and then he says think not thinking how do you think not thinking not thinking
ah this is in itself is the essential
grey of thousand he says art two thousand but art is a funny kind of word
netflix said as art it's it's a way
so hundred and of artists is the best translation
but i'm
so this this is the koran of those people say sometimes well you know in sort of then they don't have coins
but actually
zazen itself is
great go on and some people
i have a on and they sit in doesn't
with the koran like mode or something like that
but actually when you do that
i you
the columbia the coin that you're thinking about
becomes more important than the zaza
so it doesn't think not thinking is that come on science and itself is the go on you don't need something extra
that's why sitting is just sitting is
ah she does her she felt does it is
just sitting and sitting
not as solving a go on or something like that
just sitting is itself the great go on she got does or is the cohen includes l cohen
which is not to say that we shouldn't study various coins
but if we practice contessa
the the basis of our coins
so
what is thinking i'm thinking

now i'm thinking but actually be i'm thinking and not thinking
if we say it's not thinking that's not right and if we say it's thinking that's not right
it's thinking nothing that's go on
not falling into grasping
or aversion
so it's really
the entry into non-duality

then he says
the zaza and i speak of is not learning meditation
it is simply the dharma gate of replay repose a bliss
the practice realization of totally cultivated cultivated combination enlightenment
so for logan practice is enlightenment enlightenment this practice and they are inseparable
you may have satori experience or enlightenment experience
but ah enlightenment experience so called
ah is not as important as practice
people tend to tend to you read a lot of literature there's this idea that what you're doing is trying to reach the tory or enlightenment which is the big prize which is big ego
throw it away
there's nothing wrong with enlightenment
enlightenment is practice
that's is the hardest thing to realize because we think usually think this is just my everyday life
there is no nothing special
great enlightenment is nothing special
this is a great come on the co-owner of our practice great enlightenment is nothing special
you only understand that we have our freedom
how did you find your freedom right where you are doing what you're doing on this moment without interfering
are thinking that it's somewhere else
it's shocking when you got it says just lay down the burden
that's it my whole teaching is just lay down the burden way down all the stuff and carrying around
there's no super place to be
if you find yourself in some super place that's great but it's not necessarily enlightenment
i'm ever with the sixties the room
come on lsd was the big chain
and a situation people were trying to get suzuki or ocean and take lsd
henderson
lsd may be really great you know in wonderful and you may have this wonderful trip
no but it's not frighten me
the go ahead do that if that's what you like to do it but if you there
it's not enlightenment
though
he says the zaza and i speak of is not learning meditation and other room is not step by step learning the meditation
it's not one of the meditation practices is the sounds in which covers all the meditation practices
ah and are fundamentally
it is the
dermot gave every pose of bliss
once you let go
the practice realization of totally competent of enlightenment it is the manifestation of ultimate reality traps and stairs can not reach it once it's heart is grasped you were like a dragon when the dragon games the water and like the tiger when the dagger enters the mountain those are the places where the tiger and the
dragon like to be for you must know that they're insurgent the right dharma is manifesting itself and that from the first
dullness and distraction i struck aside i mean that's open to a controversial
we don't think that when i'm you're falling asleep may nevertheless if you get a good night's sleep and you can do this
when you arise from sitting move slowly and quietly calmly and deliberately don't write suddenly abruptly in surveying the past we find that transcendence of both an enlightenment and enlightenment and dying well either sitting or standing have all depended entirely on the strength of zazen
ah
anna n
ah we find transcendence above and enlightenment that are you know
delusion and enlightenment are simply two aspects of one thing
so
enlightenment beyond enlightenment beyond duality beyond
an enlightenment and enlightenment is true enlightenment so we have to understand and realize and accept that we live in the world of delusion
but to live in the world of delusion with enlightenment is enlightenment
so to realize our delusion is enlightenment
to know the difference between delusion enlightenment well we're
living within the realm of delusion
but creating a duality between delusion and enlightenment
and i'm not ready for question ship
hmm
dying will either sitting or standing you know
he's making allusions to various
the old masters you saying the third patriarch in china
ha i held onto new branch and he said
good bye
die
so i'm going to i'm gonna leave you now
don't worry about me
died so in addition the bringing about of enlightenment by the opportunity provided by a finger which is an allusion to the they and is one fingers in a banner which is an illusion to mahyco shopper enlightening under
bring take down the banner take down the flag complicate amanda
am fam
ah
was that enlightened and he couldn't attend after jackie moon his death he couldn't attend the the our hearts beating to decide what was buddhism what was not so he had he became enlightened by my
a shopper maca shopper
i don't talk too much about this but
in those days one set up the flagpole a
preet a monk would set up the flagpole and invite other people to come and have a debate
and another
memorized everything that had shocking when he had said in apparently and
he was he he was ready to come
debate every anybody to set up a flagpole mahyco shop i can't mine shit and under and said what
michael shoppers should take down the flagpole at the gate and and was enlightened than he could attend the conference
so
a needle or malad the effectively realization with the aid of a whisk a fist staff or shout user all means by which people remind cannot be understood fully understood by discriminated thinking indeed it cannot be fully known by the practicing a realization of supernatural powers either i would
read your those but we don't have time it must be department beyond hearing and seeing is it not a principle that has braved knowledge and perceptions so in other words this realization
of practice enlightenment in doesn't it was beyond all these things
this being the case intelligence or lack of it does not matter
between the down the sharp witted there's no distinction if you concentrate your efforts single mindedly that in itself is negotiating the way practice realization is naturally undefiled and going forward in practice is a matter of every davis had some special time
that's why our practices daily practice
nothing special just come and practice for the sake of practice not again something
not to get some special thing if you understand
i can appreciate every single moment no matter what's happening then you have a realization
when choosing and picking we tend to think that enlightenment is some wonderful thing and it is
and the thing that's wonderful about it is that we can appreciate our adversity
if we learned to appreciate every moment no matter what is happening
that's enlightenment
you pick and choose it's not a test delusion but we live in the world at picking and choosing nevertheless

the i know it's time to go but i'm just gonna finish this
in general this world and other worlds as well both india and china equally hold the buddhist and over all prevails the character of the school which is simply devotion to sitting total engagement and immobile sitting although it has said that there are many minds there are persons still they all negotiate way
wholeheartedly and him
why leave behind the seat that exists in your home go aimlessly off to dusty realms of other lands what it's right here if you make one if you make a misstep you go astray from their way directly before you
so this kind of refers to the prodigal son or daughter goes off looking the world around for the you know and then had been returned home to find that it's it's right here i don't say you don't have to do that but it is right here
you gave the pivotal opportunity of human form do not use your time in vain you are maintaining the essential working of the boot away who had take wasteful delight in a spark from the flintstone besides form and substance or like to do on the grass destiny like the dart of lightning
this to the flash please uttered followers is in the long accustomed to groping for the elephant like you know that one do not be suspicious of the true dragon those are two storage right there but devote your energies to a way that directly indicates the absolute revere
respect the person of complete attainment who is beyond all human agency
it is no longer seeking outside
gain accord with the enlightenment of the buddha's and succeed to the legitimate lineage of the ancestors somebody that's another story constantly performance such a manner and you are assured of being a person such as they your treasure store will open of itself and you will use it it will

you don't have time for questions but after
after tea we have twenty minutes of questions not come back in the fender
thank you for your patience
he was