Living Zen: Embrace Suffering, Find Peace
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The talk delves into the habitual nature of the mind, the significance of detachment and vulnerability, and the experiential understanding of the Four Noble Truths in Zen philosophy. It underscores the necessity of an experiential approach to Zen practice, proposes methods for integrating practice into daily life and sleep, and discusses the comprehensive nature of suffering as taught by Buddha.
Key Topics Covered:
Mind's Habit and Immediate Awareness:
- Emphasizes understanding moments without past ideas for a clear grasp of present experiences.
Zen Practice and Sleep:
- Recommends pre-sleep practices, such as bowing and focusing on a pink light, to integrate Zen practice and ensure restful sleep.
Detachment and Vulnerability:
- Highlights the paradox of strength through vulnerability and cautions against desires that limit experiences.
Four Noble Truths and Universal Suffering:
- Encourages perceiving everything as suffering to fully comprehend the Four Noble Truths and act in accordance with them.
Referenced Works:
- The Four Noble Truths (Buddha):
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Essential for understanding universal suffering and the basis for Zen practice.
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Teachings on Detachment and Vulnerability:
- Integral for comprehending the depth of Zen philosophy and practice.
Central Thesis:
The discourse examines the intersection of habitual mental patterns, practical applications of Zen teachings, and the profound insights into suffering and detachment, advocating for an experiential rather than purely conceptual understanding of these principles.
AI Suggested Title: "Living Zen: Embrace Suffering, Find Peace"
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Side: A
Speaker: Baker Roshi
Location: ZMC
Additional text: original side 3 questions
Side: B
Speaker: Baker Roshi
Location: ZMC
Additional text: A kind act...may be useless, Suffering just means giving up
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But that's our mind's habit. But before that, the fact that it occurred to leave is enough. So you get up and leave. I mean, politely, you don't rush to the door. That kind of, you know, just now, what occurred to me? the weasels cried. Anyway, he was trying to say something about what you're asking. And just then, the weasel cried outside of the Zen Buddha. And he said, just now, you know the entire weasel from that cry. And you know Dennis completely from his vomiting. whether he needs help or doesn't need help, okay? But you can't have any past idea or you can't understand that moment. Why do you want to continue in this circle?
[01:26]
Did you hear what she said? She said, when you sleep, how can we continue to practice? Why do we want to? Usually, Usually our sleep is muddled because we don't, because we save up, you know, because we aren't really resolved to practice. So during the day we more go through the forms. If you really practice during the day, you'll want, your sleep will be all right.
[02:30]
It's when you use nighttime to save up those things that you don't want practice to interfere with. But there are things you can do, like when you go to bed, you can bow beforehand. And when you go to sleep, you can center your consciousness on a pink light you will find. That kind of practice will help you sleep. you will find everything becomes clearer and finally is light itself when everything is in proportion. One more? On the faint light, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. When you go to sleep, you'll notice there's some kind of faint light or gray beam. And if you concentrate on that,
[04:00]
It's interesting how such a small thing can obscure from us the deepest flow of the whole universe. Why our tendency to possess things and protect ourselves is so great, when there's no protecting us. And vulnerability, when you're strong enough to be vulnerable, you are really strong. and you have the courage to be vulnerable and be detached. And as long as you're attached, caught by this or that desire, you can only be caught up in working out your own trip, your own destiny. And you can't be vulnerable. You can't be free and attached enough to experience everything that is. Attachment will limit
[05:25]
Yes. We're saying an answer to various questions, but we should understand something like the four values, not as an idea, but as an experience. Where does such an experience come from? It comes from realizing how everything is separate. And Buddha, she couldn't hear what she said. She said, did I say, that the four vows can only be understood as an experience. You know, Buddha supposedly said that something like that. To understand how everything is suffering, not to think that, well, some things are suffering and some things are pretty good, but to see how everything actually is suffering is more difficult than anything imaginable. I mean, he has some example about how difficult it is, more difficult than et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
[06:42]
Our urge to find things satisfactory is so great that it obscures from us what's really happening. The insufficiency of doing. You can... It may take your whole lifetime to do one kind act, and that may be useless.
[08:25]
And when you understand that feeling, you can act in the world as it is. Without the ability to understand that and feel that, you can't understand the vows. When you're talking about the suffering of everything, is it including animal objects? Why is it important to you? It changes me a lot. Suffering just means to give up hope.
[09:40]
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