May 26th, 2005, Serial No. 01560

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it's really the heart
a get your on
and it's about
practice
so
i'm
this is is very famous lot these rafe five famous lines
to study the buddha way is to study the self
to study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas
to be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas is to free one's body and mind and those of others no trace of enlightenment remains and this trace enlightenment is continued for ever
so
to study the buddha way is to study the self
we usually think of study as studying something
but this word i'm ah
and r r o japanese
am
i has several meanings one of them is to study but
it's more like ah
a practice or
drill
or doing something over and over
not for much studying
ah
a tech start studying
mathematics or similar academically but
ah paying attention to or actualizing or realize and car
i'm
i'm
ah
to to to do this self
to do this
ah to am
practice the buddha way as to practice for self
yeah
the phrase solid customer ain't gonna study war no yeah that's right here yeah
no rights can i can do that right there
kind of like this could analogy
so
another you have to
am
ah
it's moldova is doug is turning the light edward
to examine yourself to a
but it's more than just examination as a dog has been talking he's really been talking about how to be one with
thanks how did it out to
ah
this the interesting thing is it's a kind of wonderful car because
to study the self when there is no self
but this is this is basic buddhism
with in basic buddhism is studied herself in order to realize that there is no self the scalp studying the dharmas you know if you want to study that the abbey dharma people
a buddhist scholars
ah developed a system of
i
investigating the dharmas
as i presented them to you last time
there's psycho physical
constituents like
the good dharmas in the bad dharmas the neutral diamonds and so forth
and by studying those diamonds you realize that there's no self in the dharmas
that's it that's the study by be done
surf of vacation
and to the top for chain of causation is also negation so it it added british study is to study the self in order to realize the not the non-self of the self
yeah
if it's almost like the opposite
robert bourke flying
could we see ourselves as others years opposite that
new era was the opposite that i think they'd be great if we could
fears of the first visit
i know it's ah
if we could see ourselves as we really are
yeah that's
i think more like it we can see ourselves as as as it is
that's a buddha dharma is is to see things as it is it really is not without partiality without ah
ah delusions three of diversions even though we have division
and sometimes other see as very clearly but we don't see ourselves
but
beyond that it's
to stir see the to be able to accept the to realize and accept the reality of
that the experience of itself is not
the reality of herself
the experience of itself is not the reality or
yes
you substitute were to for study
the here which
don't forget to sell we do what get ourselves here this to ourselves completely well that's the next line
i think revenue
but yeah is true to to turn
a really has to be ourselves completely nuts right so she said yeah but that's a big corn
how do you be yourself completely

we may think we're being herself
but even a be complete
so to study the buddha way is to study the self in other words turned toward and to study the self is to forget the self
so forget also an interesting word forget or let go
or
hum
not be attached
the not attachment is implied here
to be attached to herself
not to be attached to some
experience your idea
so i studied itself is to forget yourself
to shift the center
from
self-centeredness to
put a centeredness
so l ideas instead of being self centric to be buddha cedric
so we we settle ourselves on buddha rather than settling ourselves on sir an self
so buddha is herself self is
ah
yeah
but his self
ah the understanding of true self and self is the false understanding yourself
so what we say self centered is coming out of a false understanding of herself
but if we're buddha centered then ah
ah our actions
are in accord and harmony with
reality or truth

so
then he says to forget the self
is to be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas
so this is like in the previous
but when it when he say before the ten thousand diamonds advance and real and verified herself right
didn't thousand diamonds verify themselves means that you realize that there's simply dharmas
an an all dharmas are contributing to your realization and your existence

and then to be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas is to free one's body and mind and those of others

am
so ah
two free
one's body and mind those of others
hum when you see that beat
ah
yeah
yeah we done
have perception our own south
that is limited and why our perception of others that's why ten and that makes for free now
that's right
ah

so this hossa can be translated as dropping but in mind of self and others
oh
yeah it's very interesting when one is mature and one has dropped body and mind one is
ah purified by the ten thousand dharmas and phrase oneself then
one understands
where everyone is and understands why people either way what said you either way they are why people act in a certain way
and one has more sympathy and understanding rather just reacting
two circumstances
so when gets a bigger picture
i'm like buddha had a big picture and people he didn't act and pity or
ah retaliatory ways

it never tried to hurt people and he always tried to help people
and he never stood on his ego
it's being righteous

and then no trace of enlightenment remains and the stressless enlightenment has continued forever
i'm

you know
hum
we we should not get stuck in enlightenment
how he was enlightenment is the opposite of collusion
so there's a plane beyond the opposites of enlightenment and delusion
enlightenment is coming from
non duality side delusion is coming from the duality side
so it has to be enlightenment above enlightenment
which is to let go of enlightenment the duality of and light been a delusion
and this is ted is the traces enlightenment
where delusions okay enlightenment is okay

this some
ah
i'm toes on a don't know if how many who have you remembered thousand and five ranks i did i bet this is seems to be a
although dog in
ah criticized the way people
i'm after toes on
ah commented on the five ranks and toes on vibrate this is seems to be in his commentary on the five rags
but in a sense of as am
pattern of a progressive pattern of practice like stage a practice
so the first stage to study the buddha ways to study the self is like com shift
we're moving into from a
a karmic life into
a life of a way seeking mind or practice mind
so leaving behind karmic activity and turning toward
a buddha activity
and then to study the self as to forget the self
as called submission
ah to actually submit yourself to practice
the
put us up into the stream of practice
ah
kind of renunciation
and then to forget the self
today's to be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas is called achievement
ah
two actually
ah
achieve some ah
foothold in practice
and then to be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas is to free one's body and mind in those of others is called collective achievement which means
and you you bore myself together with all beings
not just my own practice but my own practices shared by
shared with and by everyone
that's collective achievement that's
has to be a step
add them
a true selflessness
to give yourself over to
everyone to let go of your own
ambitions and share yourself with everyone and worked for the benefit of all beings
and to free one's body and mind
and then no trace of enlightenment remains and is tasteless enlightenment has continued to forever
is called integration of achievement
so this is ah the total integration in which there's no zan there's no buddhism there is no
precept there's no trying to do anything he just because a sentient being your your sentient being and your buddha nature are totally integrated everything you do is boot activity

so no trace of enlightenment it remains
since
everything has forgotten
you don't care about enlightenment or delusion but
whatever you do is a delight dec
denim russia there he had so don't worry
the
so
ah ah

ah

me smaller working for the benefit of all beings you know we have ah
she can't her and she contends it is another name for ginger you semi
a self
fulfilling samadi but todd your use my samadhi is
ah
our
once we have
established our own somebody
ah self fulfilling somebody then ah oui
ah turn way we use that for the benefit of all beings
so that's
i am a practicing for the sake of others there's a very interesting
definition of samadhi by
i'm
kudos iraqi regime who who is an ah
the main a probably the most time
ha
well known
soto in
teacher japan and eric
who died in nineteen sixty four but the i came deserve in
and this is samadhi is to work constantly for all beings at every moment living as the whole universe
we have all these esoteric definitions of samadhi know but he brings a doubt to this very simple
i'm understanding
he says somebody is to work constantly for all beings at every moment living as the whole universe that's very understandable
ah
if
that's your
life's work then and you don't deviate from there for a moment then that's your somebody that's your concentration and because it's there's no self in it is simply buddhist practice which is somebody
that's some special feeling
but you feel it
you can recognize it
it's not something exotic
it's simply a feeling of ah
wholeness
and selflessness
so the weight of the only way to have a feeling your holiness is through selflessness
because through selflessness you allow the whole universe to be yourself
so that's ultimately where talking is talking about
that's what good is talking about
when we let go of a false sense of self and the whole universe becomes at yourself
this is called stepping off the hundred foot pole or the one football

i'm really interesting when you know if we stick to enlightenment is called zen sickness
if you cannot go on about that
but as this
somebody said it's not that there is not any longer enlightenment but there are no traces
a cloudless blue sky still needs to be hit with a stick
you understand that
a cloudless blue sky still needs to be hit with a stick
no cloudless blue sky it's like clear mind
have enlightenment
wax
that's

so
we have to let go of our
cloudless blue sky and then
i fall into the bushes
get into the mud swim around with people
can't stay there

could you have any questions
do you understand
i'm good
yeah how three to static at it seems to me
is that for example this thing with threat time
i things as i years talk about how we do these i think over an hour in my case i didn't over and over an hour yes it's just said
i'll never reach there never was i'll never reach one place i just it's a constant and the only differences the far maybe get this raised over that was two or three years ago
but i think that when it is other any of these readings or writings they talk about how we just do this over and over and over each of these five things we just what would do you do when you come to doesn't i feel an over an hour well i sit there
the where do you do every day
he can design and over and over and over
for what are you complaining about
well as years talk about doing these things over and over and over i keep getting this idea and the way sometimes i feel like people on that is that there's a goal and i and i don't hear us talk and i don't hear a lot of talk about how
go back to his first thing while i go back to this first thing every day every minute every second oh yeah gee gosh administered yourself well if you do why do we have to talk about it
i'm from the good point there i'll think about it
no for our times

well don't have one

paul
the on this on this sentence it's not like a mere with reflections and are like water and is i think i remember you saying that would that things there's no subject objects separation you know there's nothing to reflect from
this is no there's no no gap yeah
knitted cap and hundred to have a reflection
so we talking about than i have a question usually my question the minute and is a to do with with that came up i thought of the jewel nurse to mine the use the mirror metaphor to talk about the clarity of somebody being where
you see things clearly as if we are reflected in the clear mirror
so this is
so i gotta this was previously this is taught using the mirror the mirror in a very different way the i'm talking about is talking about this not like that

it's not like this is not talking about that says i'm not talking about that
that's not what i'm talking about
but it is some i
yeah but he says i'm not talking about reflections
yeah it's not clear to me why you mix that is why you so explicit once predict that points so clearly not because you're not talking about separation and or whatever seventy reflected in the mirror even if it's reflected just as it is you have to have space
so if jordan near somebody is that is death somebody one where there is subject and object that parliament's about to a mere somebody else is a is a term for a whole body of pigs
isn't it
is that
the when the light of is no
if
transformed is called
ah
i'm
bar
oh the mirror wisdom
if we fish were
you see everything just as it is without partiality
so did not possess not to say that so different thing just think about this the distance we try to put everything together but
you know we're the same terms in the same
similes but in different ways so we say it's not like that
you sell it you then you say it's not like kill me or somebody
it's not like reflections
tiffany say clear not like reflection
what is not like a mirror with reflections are like water on the moon
when one side is realize the other side is dark
i want to belabor that sounds like a reflection to me
well he say when one side is like the other side is dark
to retiring by two sides or something in the last line makes sense to me it
i know his heart is hard to if the difficult to to get grasp it
because
if it is hard to grasp without a commentary
but
yeah so did you read the commentary at all well paul doing your home
so i gave you this thing so you can read it before the class
forgot i there
i don't want you to come without reading it next time the dark
huh
anyway now have a lot of hands up there in the bag three hands in the bag have to fight it out
sniff
okay
many of
okay i'm really to confusion and coming up and in this case the distance to that can be enlightened like in that darkness is three one's body and mind and those of a fish i've just grass has
good live there and my era i drove to ask how my perceptions being changed can automatically
three someone else because well he realize that everyone is already free
in principle
well it depends on what you mean by freedom

ah
certainly lots of people are sector you realize that everyone
if you realize everyone is suffering that's true
but you also realize that everyone is free himself has you realize that others i have no self
even though they have suffering
the even though there's no self is still suffering the said something suffers
he realize that i'm out and lot of suffering this lot of joy is lot of everything
but hum
the this wonderful column
ah you know which to answer all these questions
are all these all of these me it looks like we we can you know we can talk about all this but basically
we're talking around it
and to try to figure out logically everything that he say destroys what he say
because can we wanted to fit into our logic and dog doesn't fit into our logic
he will try to fit it into our logic we
you know can ruin it so
his way or comment on a dog better we're really talking around it so yeah get them feeling for it but really each one of these
sentences a kind of corn
and so this is something that we just that's that it's sickness
and i wouldn't have been you know when i mean just let that be there without trying to answer jana to say oh i'm stupid in arrived our
my fault
we get that you just take it in and hold it it has nothing do with you
didn't have really enjoy your smarter turns to better your fault and daughter had nothing do with that she's just take it and hold it tight okay i just let this work itself we made it seem to how it opens up or how it opens me up
that's what that the go on
he just hold it and let it open you up
whoa boy
even if it doesn't get your mind some wonderful thing to concentrate on rather than some other things
if the cubic at
so
leave some of these questions as questions for yourself
the more you try to answer all logically according to your in a way to understand it you can is possible but there are things that are
that seems strange you know and i think that
although this seems simple not
each one of these sentences are fraught with meaning
naphtha simply
wish they don't fit simply fit into our
habitual way of thinking about things
but
yet
they may they take drop in their supplies to think that and they're accurate again that's again so why not be part of my habitual thinking however there's a little empty place in my mind that this little information just drops into and does fit parfait
ugly and makes the three if
that's right pet
right

so
oh yeah there's some other hands back that event
well i was just what your met with fantastic drive searches have traditionally large they're just means everything
these everything through the indian way of exaggeration to make a point thing about the mirror that sort of a traditional you know brian's there right before
in these guys are writing that the surgery collections didn't have silver glass mirrors or rashly silver and is where you can see the reflection will they have bronze mirrors than fire
they were mirrors
vermeer's had
they also had glass glass news
water and twelve sentiment know
have you heard a roman glass
class very old
but where they had glass mirrors under the bed bronze mirrors that bears
ah i remember when i was a kid i would go to the museum and who is as bribes bear know the can darken what did they meet mirror we were so severe
can there and is that where they call it a mirror
that because i had to be polished
i'm

so there is a continuity from when when where a what from a dog as say you know one one thing leads into the next
and
so the first part he's talking about reality from four different points points of view
and then he's talking about how we meet
ah dharmas and
who would either with delusion or enlightenment and then he talks about how to be with her actually are actualized
reality through
engagement
penguin one with things
being one with our activity then he talks about the outline of practice in origin to study the better way is to study the self
so to study the self is to forget yourself to let go of yourselves and that's the practice those two lines really are the basis of practice to study the way
it is defending herself to practice the weapons is to practice herself
and to practice itself is to let go of yourself
to drop body and mind
well retaining body and mind
to die
these are all you know that literally dropped something people think literally sometimes
drop or attachment dropper false understanding drop of partiality

this is a major difficult and chickens coming out with what you're saying night a king james version it reads to see it through a glass darkly and revised version and still a thirty year the revised version is to look through a dirty mirror matters
or the other all doing better
an hour with it relates to not that the image this
i'm
well we say the hazy mode of enlightenment
we have that term the hazy moon of enlightenment
ah which you know like clouds and the moon
clouds cleared out the moon and then you see the move through the clouds and and sometimes you just see the moon then seal macleod's cover the moon again so this is kind of the way it is
a glimpse of the enlightenment
i was so delusion kept delusion is life the clouds clouds cover the moon and then but even though the clouds cover the moon the moon is still there
and that's just like when he said
change from one side is really easy
the other side is in the dark so to speak for when the moon is there you don't see the clouds but the clouds her implied
and then when the clouds cover the moon is to see the clouds and everything is clouds to the whole universe is club
and the moon is that
ah understood to still be there
but it's not but is hidden by the clouds so sometimes it's delusion it's sometimes it's enlightenment and sometimes it's thinly veiled so that its various degrees of delusion and enlightenment
but whatever it is is what it is
so we don't try to stick to the moon without the clouds
because we know that and lies the moon is there there will also be clouds there's no such thing as a cloudless sky
forever
whether somebody's always going to be the way it is or that
we know that
through practice enlightenment is always
there as well as clouds
that enlightenment and so is there as well as delusion and delusions there as well as enlightenment and ah within the clouds is the moon within the moon and the cloud
you haven't did you shave to get
did she say that i wanna get first timers
have you said anything yet and that's the question yeah i wish
it's head
and i'm willing to wait no no i'm asking you treasure chest okay so ah
five senses
you know dean was saying i come in and i just to say and to be no no no no no united keep doing it over and over again it's not really
and seem to be about reaching something that said not anna
i was thinking that the first line to study the player lens stay itself that's the realm of effort does this the realm of turning
toward make an effort to study the south that is to be conscious of self doubt that such as seems like a team is talking about you know you keep doing it and keeping keep doing it keeping that ever
ah
how i was thinking this but why we're talking about one and clouds just now i was soon changing so
there might be a moment when room studying the south
when
wherever that he's talking about when he says is to forget the self when that might happen for us