Few desires or few desires produce merit. If you do that, you can create or produce merit. What kind of merit? Next, Buddha says those who have few desires do not have to flutter in order to ingratiate themselves with others. Anyway, when you sit down, you can sit down. Just sit down. It's not necessary, oh my, good sense, good concentration, I like it. It's not necessary to sit. Just sit down. If you see that, evil concentration, oh my goodness, I don't like it. Go away, go away. It's not necessary. If you meddle with evil concentration or good concentration in that way, your life is completely pendulum, like that, pendulum. All you have to do is just sit down, just sit down. If you sit down, immediately you can see lots of good concentration, evil concentration.

[01:07]

But those evil concentration or good concentration are nothing but flickering light. So only when you meddle with it seriously, that's what is called progress, progress. So all you have to do is just sit down, just sit down. When you have to sit down, sit down. That's all you have to do. But consciousness always catches it. Catches the what? Good, evil, right, wrong. But those are just bubbles. Those are just flickering light, flickering light. So you can see flickering, oh, flickering light. But all you have to do is totally, right now, right here, just sit down, like a huge mountain. Then, the Buddha says, those who have few desires do not have to flutter in order to ingratiate themselves with others.

[02:13]

Not necessary to flutter. In order to ingratiate yourself with your consciousness, with good concentration, with evil concentration, whatever. Anyway, all you have to do is just sit down. If you have less desire, what is less desire? You get one more diamond, you penetrate it through and through. Also, they withstand temptations from the various sense organs. Various sense organs. So, you can be free from, you can be free from temptation of, temptation from the temptation of various sense organs. Sense organs means, sense organs means including sense objects and the six consciousnesses, okay? Including those six.

[03:22]

So, your consciousness catches. It catches the good, the evil, all middle, middle, suffering or pleasure, middle, whatever you say. Anyway, consciousness always catches, from moment to moment. But those are, the consciousness catches is just like a bubble, flickering light, appearing, disappearing. So, you'll never be caught away by them. One who practice, one who practicing, practicing have few desires, have neither worry nor fear. For his mind is peaceful. But fear is, if you receive yourself with perfect confidence, in other words, if you don't understand how to do the thing.

[04:34]

If you always expect something from the thing you do, that is not right. That means that you don't have an eye to see practice of Zazen in proper way. Anyway, if you want to have a right eye to see proper practice of Zazen, anyway, all you have to do is, you settle yourself right in the middle of Zazen itself. That's all you have to do. Just spinning top, just like a spinning top. Then within the spinning top, if you spin, you can see many things. That is good or bad, right or wrong, okay? Right or wrong. If you don't meddle with them, you can just sit. But if you meddle with them, immediately your life will be pin drop, like this. All you have to do is anyway just sit down.

[05:36]

This is an eye to see right practice of, your practice of Zazen, okay? Zazen or doing whatever, business or working on the street, whatever you do, it is very important. And then at that time, that practice, okay? That practice really helps you and others, okay? Helps and others. It must be. It must. Very naturally. It's illuminating. Illuminating of form in that practice. Over everybody. So that is, if you understand that, you cannot have a sense of fear, okay? You can just sit down. Constantly you can sit down. But most people criticize you who practice just sit down, just sit. Because it's nonsense, okay?

[06:39]

It's very nonsense according to intellectual sense. At that time you can fear. You can have a fear. In my whole life I should practice just a ridiculous Zazen? Do you think so? So you can very naturally fear. But if you have a right eye to see what is proper practice of Zazen, you never fear. Just continue to sit down. Look at Buddhism. Even Buddhism in United States. I don't think everybody understands right Buddhism. Don't think so. Still very noisy. Lots of noise. But right practice is what? If you don't have a right eye to see right practice of Zazen, well you cannot practice. You cannot have an eye to see right practice, okay? It means your practice is very shaky.

[07:43]

Very naturally fear comes up. So finally you want to go to another group, okay? Thinking koan and shouting and enlightenment. So many things. So many things. If you want, that's okay. It's still your freedom. Free man, okay? But I don't know, okay? I don't know if it is the right way of life, okay? So I don't want to give you anything, any candy, but this is very good medicine for you. If you want to get sweet candy, you can go any place. Because from that you can get the most enjoyment. Wait a minute. Ah. Wang Fu, yes, for whatever he comes into contact with

[09:02]

he finds that it is enough. That it is enough means, enough means when you sit down, anyway, right now, if you can settle yourself in the self, right in the middle of Zazen, okay? That's enough. That enough means you are not enough. You must be you including the whole world. At that time, that's enough. It is called that's enough. For instance, I am talking here in English. Whatever you criticize me, pidgin English, or karage English, or proper English, or local English, well, it doesn't matter. All I have to do is sit down right in the middle of funny English. Just talk, beyond funny or good, anyway, just talk.

[10:04]

That's enough. That's enough. If it is enough, I will talk. What do you mean? I am enough? No, I am not enough. If I see myself from my telescope, it is not enough. Because I have to study hard. But it is enough means right now, right here, it is enough. It means just talk. Just talk means including I, you, English, pidgin English, good English, all kinds of English. Including all kinds of English, you, and I, and Delta, and the San Francisco, Minneapolis, you know, the same amount of time, it is enough. That means enough. Enough means many. Many. At that time, your situation is perfect equilibrium. That's why the Buddha says whatever he comes into contact with, if he has to talk, he will talk.

[11:15]

But this, he finds that it is enough. And he never lacks anything. At that time, he never lacks anything. He can talk. He can talk because at that time, his talking is not talking. So, not talking. Not talking about idea of Buddha. Anyway, talking about his life and Buddha's life, your life, tree's life, universal life. So, it is really, talking is just like illumination. Constantly illuminating over your life. That's why you are impressed by this kind of talk. Or, not only talk, ballerina, ballet, music, concert, whatever. Just play, just ballet. Just ballet.

[12:17]

Whatever people criticize, anyway, just ballet. Becoming one with concert, the audience, and the ballerina himself, and also composers who existed in the past. All are one, become one, just ballet. That is the vivid activity, which is called ballet dance. At that time, audience are very impressed by this. So, never, there is, he never lacks. He never lacks. Anyway, impressing, giving something, which is called illumination. Helping people. So, just the way it is, doesn't mean to do blindly. To do not blindly. To see everything, to awaken everything. Becoming one, everything, and then just do it. And, he never lacks.

[13:19]

Having a few desires, he is in nirvana. This is called having few desires. Having few desires, he is in nirvana. In nirvana is, under all circumstances, your whole life, your life is in perfect state of peace, harmony, equilibrium. That is called nirvana. Not only a certain circumstance. When you are in favorable conditions, you are happy, or you are in equilibrium. This is not perfect equilibrium. All circumstances, under all circumstances, anyway, you must, all you have to do is to be, anyway, in equilibrium. That time, everything is absorbed into your equilibrium. Everything, circumstances are changing, turning into your equilibrium.

[14:19]

Yes, it is. If you are always smooth, just like a pendulum, one, nothing, there is nothing to help you. So, everything becomes a mess. It's upset. You cannot deal with anything at all. All you have to do is, anyway, you must be right in the middle of equilibrium, peace, and harmony. At that time, everything turns into, everything is absorbed into, your one-pointedness. One-pointedness. This is few desires. Just like a TV set, turn on switch. Turn on switch. If you turn on switch, immediately the whole world is absorbed into it. You can see Japan, anyway. If you turn on, well, this is tiny switch. What you have to do is very simple, turn on. But, whole universe, Europe, Japan, Asia, India, all are absorbed into it.

[15:24]

You can see it. Communicate with it. It's not outside, real life. It is, really fact. Turn on, anyway. Then, all you have to do is continue to, anyway, turn on. Turn on switch. Turn on switch means, anyway, be in equilibrium. Right now, we are here. At that time, anyway, you can have a chance, okay? Gradually, what's going on behind this tiny switch? That is philosophy, psychology, anyway, science, Japan, and economy, many things. You can study one by one. But if you don't turn on switch, if you don't turn on switch, how can you study? Because no communication with the TV set, with you. Anyway, first of all, you have to communicate with TV set, as a human being, with you.

[16:26]

For that, turn on. That is very direct and very important, simple manifestation of human life. Then, it is not enough. So, because you have already big head, balloon, big balloon, day after day, you should take care of it. For that, day after day, you have to learn one by one. What's going on behind tiny switch? This is philosophical, psychological, physical, and scientific, anyway, backgrounds. And then, at that time, you can understand. That turning on the switch is very subtle, very stable. Back to back, anyway, you have to understand it. Full function of your frontal lobe, ok? Frontal lobe is important, but don't use frontal lobe always, ok?

[17:26]

Rest it for a while. I ain't stopping. Keep going.

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