Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, Samantabhadra

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today i went to present a little tale from
erdogan's ak shinji
shinji is
no different than dog ames shovel gonzo chabot enzo his billions shows up ago and poetic and
tasha
ah is an prison since unique understanding
and xing yi is more like the practice side
how one practices the practical and practica of practice
what what is the work in the ten so what is that where you come to work leader what is the work of that the ina or the zendo
manager a woman is the work of the gardener in february
and but it of course it's what does that work
as practice not just what do they do but what is that what is the meaning of that kind of practice
so every every position
in the monastic life is a position of practice no matter what the work is when you have to be able to find a word and at the meeting within the work
so and of course we have
in a temple practices it's similar not the same but similar and we have these positions
everyone actually in this practice if you are member
we like to give everyone some position i don't like to call him jobs it's not a job
i think of a job is something you do it every day and get paid for
but here it's a position that you have and so you work on the position work with your position
and with every position that you have
ah you view the practice from that position
and then your position changes and so positions keep rotating
some positions rotate faster than others
bad
if we keep up on it the positions keep rotating everyone has something to do even if it's just you know taking care of an altar or
emptied the wastebasket
i'm in the bathroom or something it's a it's that's your position
so
these positions
the way we practice is in the position and this is called the shinji
and for a
the dug in he had many stories about
how saying that the head cook you know
it's stories exemplifying the practice of the head cook for stories exemplifying the practice of the know that work leader
so i went to read you one of these little
anecdotes stories
doc about it
so he sets an example of someone advanced in the way who shows the position of practice leader
well it and a practice there's a right turn her actually i think it's you know or the one who is ahead of practice in the zendo
a great master
okay show the position of practice leader is sweet june so he gene great minister bouncy of the who you on monastery and jinzhao who is an arab duncan
while he was a low two's assembly he became the enough
one day he called the assembly to work by hitting the hon with a mallet
han is like i wouldn't bill that we used in a monastery
and he said those those of you whose seats are on the right side of the motel please take care of the firewood and those and the left please plan of the field
so he came in any announced the work for the day and the head monk said and what about the holy monk manjushri who is enshrined in the center
uj replied he's not seated on either side whereas over him to go
i'm
did not at minor teacher the sweet jane was a fine example of several accomplished in the way
so ah
and then he makes us little remark that says the elders of today did not reach such stature
better
manjushri
is the personification of a non duality wisdom of non-duality
hi samantha bhadra is the bodhisattva who is the personification of practice
and of teachers raw is the body sandra who is the personification of compassion so three these three aspects
the wisdom of non-duality
practice and compassion are the three legs a to practice
and they these three legs hold a pint of practice and interact with each other
and within wisdom is practicing compassion
compassion is the result of wisdom
wisdom flows compassion flows out of wisdom and wisdom of flows out of compassion
ah
practice includes both ah
wisdom and compassion and compassion includes practice and wisdom so a but when one is in the ascendancy one is in the foreground the other two are in the background
so when wisdom is in the foreground are practicing compassion are in the background
supporting
ah
ah
so
ah in monastery usually manjushri is the figure in the zendo
and the old days they had lots are real estate that's land and they could build big
a complexes and i can they they can have a building for chanting and building for
zazi in the building for eating a building for the bathroom in all these different buildings
seven or eight buildings including a huge main gate cause land was not such a premium is it is today so in america we do everything in one room more or less
must send a muslim center and said when it maybe two rooms you know but maybe a buddha hall and and dharma and the zendo but we have like one room schoolhouses where we do everything in the in the same spot so we have our service and what's bad and may have thousand the same spot them so
oil
and
i
but in the zendo
ever
larger place
manjushri is seated at the center the bodhisattva wisdom in the buddha hall you have buddha as the main figure
bad because we have buddha is the main trigger and this little guy here is one tsp
and he has and on the other scientists avalokiteshvara
i'm so manjushri i say he
for convenience sake but actually i want to talk a little about my manjushri sex life
a
so
ah
the head monk said what about the holy monk budgetary who is enshrined in the center
and zoo aging replayed he's not seated on either side whereas there for him to go
i'm
so this is the on
a hundred and discrimination
we say we should have an undiscriminating mind
but at the same time i were always making choices
so this is the go on of
how do you make choices with not discriminating mind
this is a kind of a co on for the abbot you know
although the abbott sits
not quite the center but little after the site is really in the in the middle the abbot's in the middle
and sometimes we have say women's machine
and sometimes we have immense session
now if the abbot as a man which session should he attempt
if the abbot of the women which says she should she attend so it's a nice little call on
i've solved the call on but i haven't acted it out

so who is more jittery
sometimes you know if we say he he looks like a man but actually
manjushri is a man and his manjushri is a woman and manjushri is neither man nor woman and monge ensure it is both a man and a woman
so ah
ah
when manjushri is a man
one just she acts like a man
and
has the characteristics in the feelings and so forth every man when luxury is a woman
she feels like a woman has the characteristics of women and does things in a feminine way but not all men
masculine not a women are feminine
and ah
which is not too relevant but manjushri is neither man nor woman
when we you know come to the zendo
we walk in as a man or own of our women
or somewhere in between
and
when we sit down
we let go of being a man or a woman
where neither man nor woman
even though you may feel that you're a man or own
actually we let go of
being a man or a woman
ah
if we let go of being a man or a woman
then
we aren't just
ah below the level of a discriminating mind let go of that discriminating mind
but manjushri is also both men and women
which means when when it's necessary to be a man won just three is a man and when it's necessary to be a woman manjushri as a woman
but at the same time
luxury is a man is a man and manjushri as a woman is a woman
so even though
your sex has taken away from you
ah you don't lose anything
sometimes you know in the past
there has been
how many controversies over women's practice and men's practice
the history and practice has been the domination of men
and it's a kind of male oriented so he's been a male oriented practice
and even with the nuns of the past and buddhists time you know two women had many more
precepts in which it any various reasons why that is
some of them are are reasonable and some of their probably not reasonable
and ah the women's
practice has been sort of dominated by men but one aspect of the head is that in the past women served men and men protected women that was a kind of deal that our ancestors head
we will serve you and you'll protect us
then ah
ha and the feeling of being protected is very valuable
ah and the feeling of wanting to protect was very valuable
and now of course with the equality equal
the rights of men and women
r i t e s equal rights
we don't have those it now
but
we we lose some of that you know it's it's it's kind of shake and that
foundation
if as a woman
no i express my freedom and my rights since over but i in a process i lose my protection some of my protection
and ah
even though i may long for that so that's kind of brat can be a kind of brown some men
the video you know who we protect the nuns the make the most protected and but then it gets overbearing you know and it becomes repressed the nuns rather than protect them
so the problems right however you cut it there are problems
but we have the problems of today so
and they're not bad problems baby
now as a matter of fact in zen center you know san francisco this and it is pretty much run by women
all the leadership mostly as women and so now the women are protecting the meme
and men are going to dependent that of the men and women that's carried interesting switch
but things have to go back and forth before they find their balance
yeah i think things are in the process that that's the press as i see it
i don't worry you know that
dad san francisco's leadership is mostly women i think that that's good
that's the thing i am concerned about is i wish the men who take little more initiative
instead of being taken care of so much
but anyway
so

strong
and yet under control

and even it's like k emotional side is under control
the passion had side is under control
and he sits gently on the land who carries him
our carries her
she sits on the lioness who carries her
and
samantha bhadra sits on an elephant
elephant is the symbol of buddha dharma
because elephant
characteristics of the elephant or
strength and weight very weighty but when they take a step you know it's
and then i'd take another step
know
they don't it's has combat basin is girl
elephants practice rather than rabbits practice
go
they look
d
one photo at a time
and
careful the rabbits are careful to they just fast but symbolically
yeah
i once had a dog who it's very sprite a sprightly dog and it was in san francisco and i was taking him prologue and he would just leap into anything you know if he thought there was something on the other side of a fancy we just jump over the fence and he did jump over this railing
and he landed than twenty feet from
anyway
ah
this is samantha badges very careful and very steady steadiness
not easily pushed off of his path
ah and
a characteristic of practices steadiness and ah
ah
i'm
constancy
and strength and effort
ah the an elephant works will work all day long
doing difficult things
ten also a pretty loyal
but big and lot of energy

home
and also carries big loads on its back
during his trunk
ah carriage the practice
not just following along but actually motivating self-motivated and
encouraging the motivation of others
and
samantha bhadra is personification of compassion
able to discern the feelings of others and
i suffered with other people suffering enter into other people's suffering in order to help
or just in order to be a companion
it's not necessarily
always helpful to be helpful
but it's always helpful to be a companion
ah to to listen and to
just be with somebody when they did something

one of the most difficult things to do is to help people
but what's not so difficult is to just be with people
you know how do you be with someone when they're dying people always think
so as i was dying how will i be with them
what should i do you know i can't tell him where they're going
i couldn't make something and a or
tell him what somebody else it said
but how do you be with someone when they're dying
a question
a basic basically just be with them
when if you just be with them and you will know what to do

so ah a compassionate action
ah is to share yourself
and ah
if you can do that
the answers will come
if you're open

you know you can
encourage people maybe in various ways but
to help someone to just let go
is that's our practice anyway
where they were living or dying to encourage someone's pract someone to in letting go
is it is it's just our normal practice so ah it may not be necessary to do something special
as long as you just stay with what you realize is to practice
and the more we learn to let go
while we're on the ascendancy
is it will be when where and the descendants
so
living our life is learning how to
let go of it
some time if you were someone who's dying
you can get help them by
help them to realize that inhaling is
coming to life exhaling is letting go of life and if they get use to
ah in it to pay attention to inhaling and exhaling
just pay attention to breath
as coming to live and let it go to they get used to letting go as well as coming to alive because it's both
and that when we let go
something will happen next even though
the last breath it looks like
nothing's gonna happen next
even though we don't know what's going to happen next
we have to trust yourself to life itself
this is called faith
not necessarily knowing what you're trusting yourself to but you just have to trust that that which produced you is taking care of you
since everyone has to do this
they must be some good reason for it

so this is a compassionate action
not make things up but just looking at what's really happening
and helping people in that way
and this is also won't juicery
i'm gonna do serious wisdom of non-duality
the out within birth there death and with death there it's birth
it's not just one way
because there's birth there's death and because there's that there's birth
they alternate with each other like night and day
but when we're on the light side we don't want to fall into the dark and aware on the dark side i don't know

but i don't know it's also important
to be able to accept or not knowing
ah to
ah
jump off the ball not knowing
an important step
hmm
so ah birth and death men and women
how

lancia should he
we're even the magician you will get down from the altar and maybe worked with that side forward for this side he still always in the middle
never lose loses being in the middle
and being in the middle means that there's no special place to be

we can do men's practice the kinda women's practice we can do practice that's neither men nor and women's practice now we can do practices both men's and women's practice and either way it's just fine
and it all happens at the same time

i do have some christian
fancy he said i'm something couple of minutes got stuck with me is that since we all have to do this there must be the basic idea as thirty the recent patch there must be a reason for it
it doesn't have to be good
i did say good i i guess is there a are you say of reason to resubmit that there is no inherent degrees and then there are those who set esri's go find it
that's good good question
ah we say in put a dharma everything has a cause
right
so nothing and nothing happens without cause
so cause is a reason
but there may be a cause of that a reason i am here for a number of causes that doesn't necessarily mean there's a recent black as may just be the conditions the cabinet room
yeah but we call those conditions
you can you can look at it as bare bones you know apps
as
there are causes that brought me here but
that's barebones that reductionist way of thinking about
but
ah
a human way of thinking about it with the meat and the bone is there's a reason i made her
so you can take over it either way
and
but those aren't necessarily recent time i get from last year plan
as or destroyed reasons why live your life
different since we all have to do this is a nice
yeah well since ah
i didn't say know the reason

i don't know the reasoning behind
that family other than i can give it various interpretations you know
so yes it
that may be loose language
to say to say the there's a reason why everyone does this mean that's that's the kind of no loose way of speaking strictly speaking
i don't know why this all happened
but
we must go along with it
right so since we must go along with it and everybody does
ah
there must be
so
hi
any other questions
here
i was reflecting on when you said that time for us to go from the line insight into the dark
when you said from the dark side don't know lines that don't know
oh this is not a question but i was thinking that maybe that's why baby cries it's because one's born he's into the relative he doesn't want to leave the absolute oh well we don't know exactly why baby cries
that
in the warm world is the world who have the baby before it's born right so whatever world were used to we don't want to leave
so that i
the reason i said didn't put say the same thing about the dark side is because we go from dark to light we think i'm going from dark to light and liking to go from dark to light we don't think like likely to go from light to dark but that's just our way of thinking you know it when we get rid of that and when we can let go of
that then either going into the dark or the light is in a one is it's okay
but i think in the womb
is is still spaced out when you're born
it's literally because my space
and then it narrows down to
a secular mode
a
worldly only mode
and becomes
part of the world for before there's not really part of the world as we know it
so it takes a while before we we
develop the ego
the persona even though way you have characteristics that were born you know we should absolutely characteristics that become developed i were not developed and so everything's pretty much the same
no discriminating mind we put our town our mouth and you put everything in our mouth you know find out when everything is and then we
become accustomed to the world and then we start protecting ourselves
from everything else and then we started isolating ourselves
then later we actually go well that go and
ah
d classifiers on her mind
take it apart again that of it
i don't want to say return to something because you can never returned anything but i guess you could say return returned to her return to
the unconditioned
self being whatever that image
yeah i'm mark
is there a particular animal associate their particular animal associated with all of by the elephant in the line i know nothing of
oh
i will look it is where doesn't ride anything
badass she has a bottle and a jug jug of benevolent water

i've heard that she gets a white parents

be

let's say doesn't have a broomstick

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