Non-Attachment to Buddha Nature Is Buddha Nature

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morning on the school day i like to ask us to evolve office to our speaker and on higher probably started sitting here in the seventies when he and resort right way and he came over with like way
way to receive swift continues
he said opponent here for many many years probably originally from to write as the as with the error beforehand and quite a while now he had a couple grown sons a professional psychologist who practices in psychology in san francisco at our fifth at a mission that of health
and he also had private practice karen personally
so few all the practices of fight for provision and was like listen
and as a white person he received on the transition from last new jersey last year
i will read and well versed in the in teaches he's a published author he's written a number of books about psychology some of them have some sunset in the ethics of opposing be published later this year election an ice cream and with best part out on that so
the baby to virtue
vision
well thank you russ with that we cannot go home now
have or go have tea and cookies
i'm
so far
so will say something about was mentioned my name and i will a but this last year i've been practicing with getting used to or my name terminate that sojourn know she gave me a decade and i was so surprised during the transmission ceremony
that are my own nation name is email ten k and it was the the ordination name i got for layered mission when you have a priest or nationally to keep the same de mayo mission name and when you have a dharma transmission you feel heavier recognition name
i'm anda
i was used to him about his i know you can use him up your name is thinking
and the so you please name is thinking saudis were practicing getting used to that name of this past year and
ah it's an interesting kind of recapitulation because our my birth name for never liked and i will like ten can that my either
and and so it's funny you know how were named by the other and then we'll have to do something with it we have to appropriated in some way
so i've been a long time trying to above
for appropriating by all and guy you until i think in my maturity i i came to actually
feel good about it like it in sort of ah ha
recognize it as me
and
so i've been doing the same thing with a with nk k
and the it means the than can mean or feel the blessings
which the nice
meaning ah but the sound of dedicate herself
and the meaning sort of it's nice
that
you know flowery you know like the like the sutras
and and then i came across or or or this world in german
but because i think will take a few buzzing that have to do with me till i see myself as and to other people seem that way
you know what am i conditions
anda how do we bring out the unconditioned out of our conditions
not without them or at their expense
so
we are what we are the were much more than what we are but what we think we are
oh
so i was reading something and
came across the word and german didn't can
and ah and then can is like the characters shin in a chinese which means both to think and feel
oh
and so thinking and feeling
yeah that's kind of like me
and that's probably my condition and you know how people see me
kenneth
platforms or for maybe two too much thinking of or to too much feeling or to too emotional
and
and then but that didn't can also has the the route with pancake
so it's a
which has to do with gratefulness
oh for thinking and feeling in a great for maybe graceful way
oh
so thin k
am i starting to starting to feel more like me
so anyway so aside from that little introduction ah the topic of of my talk today is a non attachment to buddha nature is the buddha-nature
letting go of god for god's sake
i'm
and so i want to start with a an introductory poem from for a festival from logan
it's the kanji and farcical
and it says or
if if the mine is diluted
the suit are teaching turns us
if the mind is enlightened we turn the the centers for the teaching
if we transcend delusion and enlightenment than the sutra of the teaching turn the sutras of the teaching
so as midst of the question what is was it mean for the teaching to turn the teaching of for the sutras to during the sutras
so in response to that i wrote this toy
ah
the mind that turns the teaching
he's the same as the teaching
since the teaching our the mind the buddha
the sutra that turned the do the mind is none other than or to mind
does the sutras turn the sutras and the mind turns the mind
sometimes the teacher turns the student sometimes the student turns the teacher
sometimes the speaker turns the audience sometimes the audience turns the speaker
we are all turning and returning
because we moved together we sit still together because we sit still together we all slowly changing together
like the earth

so ah
the not the the main theme related to the the title that i gave to the start today
hum
there's a traditional symbol of of sort of thin
the dog used instead of the five francs to transmit the dharma and this is part of what you study is part of the process of transmission and the five banks which you may or may not may have heard or not heard about of

heather degenerated into scholastic polemics the logan sort of put it aside because up to dog that's what people studied during the transmission process
so he developed all these are the symbols
which are diagrams actually
and the
the first is or a black circle
the represents the buddhas and sentient beings or priests and lay people and live in delusion or one
romney's not to
then inside a black circle there's a red circle
and of the red circle inside the black circle represents the world of philology
or not one
and the distinction between buddhists and sentient beings priests and lay people enlightenment delusion
and then inside the red circle there's across
that turns into a swastika
turning towards the left
and the nazis took the swastika and used to turning towards the right
and the spokes of the swastika represent before wisdoms and the transformations of wisdom and how reality is always in a process of of change and the for wisdoms are in a process of transforming into one of
and one another
i'm
so there's nothing stable as wisdom
it's always an oppressive change
then the the the horizontal line inside that cross inside the circle inside another circle line
lines up with a black circle and the vertical axis lines up with the restaurant
and the core of the access the place where the to access meet
where they intersect
represent the inconceivable or the unobtainable through ongoing practice
no matter how much you practice
no matter how hard you practice
there's something an unobtainable
are unattainable in practice
so therefore or we have his ceaseless practice
and ceaseless practice is not causation translation this the teaching of beginners mine
lena this practice that we doing here
but at its core will not obtaining anything
so duncan says
sees this practice enhances cease this practice by more ceaseless practice
so like this morning or we have done or the denzel
lori was the tensile
so we could call her thesis practice
a tenth of glory because he's this practice
then we had a server who is ross and so their server for harass his thesis practice and then you have to doshi in this case may also too because sees his practice so sees this practice is enhancing see
this practice by more six perspectives
lori is enhancing vase
buy more rope
oh thank you
so this is how we practice together me when turning each other to returning and turning each other just find most destructive and that's it
and there's nothing there's no enlightenment outside that the practice itself
on the whole teaching is right there
so this is kind of extra
you know the talk the talk is kind of telstra is a pt on the practice
but it's actually just more practice

and the superior she said that enlightenment comes before practice
ah or that is enlightenment that takes us into practice is not that we go into practice in order to get enlightened is because we are enlightened that we practice
and this is often how when we read the stories and stories of the coins somebody always stories about somebody getting my even only gonna get enlightened right away
ah and you said you know how can they get lighten and then people think well they were so much better than and we are you know i mean it's all been downhill ever since
that was the the real standard
those were the days the good old days
but that's sort of the dualistic way of understanding
oh that's pointing out how enlightened comes amid an inseparable from practice but because ah
we are in my even we practiced the practice enlightenment is not that we practice and on again lightened
so we awaken within enlightenment
for from an enlightened dream
oh from a dream that we have we have to wait from the dream that we have about enlightenment and we stood with with various practicing in the midst of his dream about enlightenment
and then we have to awake within that dream that we have about enlightenment
or maybe some enlightening dream that us up
ah
so according to bogans were first we realized in the long door mahayana teaching
that buddhist sentient beings priests and lay people the loser enlightenment or one or not to
that's the fundamental principle
and then we turn away from the world to practice and this is the left leaning swastika
and the wisdom of of non-attachment and separating from the conditions that interfere with practice
i saw of you a job or that interview interviews with practice or you have an addiction that interferes with factors are you have a relationship that interferes with practice and sometimes you have to leave that in order to practice and this is sort of them the metaphor for monastic practice or fourteen and yeah
no practice he added the small vehicle i think most of us here old timer so not
that doesn't require much explanation
oh but the hinayana practice always has to be practice with mahayana mind for the securities that are practices hinayana practice with my i am mind and as very much the spirit of of soju corrosion
ah this is something that impressed me about him
we have here this constrict amongst practice budget he didn't seem like a monk who didn't have an attitude for a monk
so he didn't practice with my other mind
and if you don't if you don't practice in a young practice with mahayana mind then it turns into a right leaning swastika
and the right swastika is considering priests practice or monastic practice practice as better is superior than late practice and buddhists as superior dissension beings the bodhisattvas
and this is where people get turned off with religion because their religion seems to be like fascism
ah
so kenya ghana practice without my yana mind is a kind of attachment to buddha nature
usually practice the no attachment attachment to hindrances but the desire of to the illusion but actually has patron who are
was this a chinese teacher yeah joe
in japanese
and he's credited in around eighteen something from saving them from being destroyed by the emperor
because the emperor was persecuting buddhism or the sex of buddhism that appeared to him to be parasitic
meeting is at some point you have forty thousand monasteries ah
actually if you want to accept them or something like that very large number ten forty thousand temples and
very large number of temples and monasteries at some point they weren't enough people to support of the month they weren't enough lead people to support elements so like social security
you know they're not enough people working to support people to retire to get such security
as the what pycharm did he turn around and he said because the monks were supposed to work their lungs we're supposed to the begging begging and to to exchange food for the dark
a kind of quit from for full
and so because the monks were supposed to tell the ground to plant food because for the stay been my kill killer a warmer an insect
so he said on amongst to work in the fields and he said famously a day of not working is a day of not eating
and he wanted the the the government attacks the the the crops produced by the month on an equal basis with the taxation that play people ah and bay
i'm
so on
so i think this is this is the beginning of his teaching of light on teaching of non-duality between of chris priests and lay people which is very much part of our of practice and part of stojan roche's practice and and part of a
ah suzuki roshi fact is when he he said to his dues you are neither crystal lay people so then what are you
that's a god
that we don't have whether we practice as preserve as many people whether we were robbed that we don't wear rose
what
oh
same question
hum
so this part of are so he has a patron as his teaching of the the complete and incomplete teaching the the incomplete teaching was to to
explain or study of
ha
the defilements in the profane or in pure things in order to eliminate the profane or an order to eliminate the hindrances or in order to eliminate desire or eliminate delusion that that he called the incomplete teaching
and the conflict teaching
he says explains the the violent and impure things in order to eliminate the sacred
or eliminate our idea of enlightenment or of emptiness
so ah
so this is part of of of up getting attached to a the buddha nature or to or summary or to the calmness a tranquil a station that comes with zazen sometimes people criticize so to for being quite istick
or people who don't meditate criticize people who meditate by think all you just trying to gonna be so quiet and and and com you know how from i said that my uncle asked me that time why do you meditate and there was my early years you know and there's said well because just to just a increase piece of fair peaceful
from
i'll be peaceful when i die not only peaceful by now to visit to be peaceful
to this kind of duality of of of stillness and activity
so we have to totally forget about the the stillness side of of practice
because they actually are is called the relative within the absolute in the first rank south it is the relative within the absolute
as and activity is the absolute and the relative
so we have to give me after very important to do a thousand
and to have formal practice because the the black circle without the refs are so the red circle without the black circle leads to the writing swastika
but the the via the black circle without the red circle nice to think well we already enlightened than while we to practice
why do we need to make the effort
you know it's hard enough to to get up in the morning
although some people you know some people practice in the morning is very good practice and morning some people back in the afternoon some people are morning people and some people are even people
a life my partner and i am on a morning person i was born at six am i don't know if it has anything to hear that
so just as well i'm the proof of that theory doesn't work because ah he's he's a night person he can stay up okay out on the night but he gets up in the money to do
although some point you you can do that when you're young but at some point when you when you're older you need to get your sleep need your beauty rest ah because otherwise you what your body starts breaking down and then you die young
so you can go your youth you know sleeping three or four hours and then you until your body breaks down and your body says no more i can do this anymore
ah so you know there's a certain amount of sleepless is necessary
so at some point it catches up with you and you have to get enough sleep
but we are people who come to morningstar's and we are people who come to afternoon thousand and both are good and some people come to both
so my my my girlfriend she's a night person just stay up late you know and i'm a morning person so we've achieved their kind of modus vivendi
understanding because then you know we have some space from each other is in relationships for a work day after time together but you also have to have time apart and do things on your own
ah and ourself in the morning i do things on my own in the night she does things on her own took a little you know it's not always you know it's not always the ah free of of have difficulty of those are the conditions for yourself how do we practice with the conditions that we have we all
have a set of conditions
and we don't pretend they're not there
that's not mistaken notion of non-attachment the being a pet not been attached to buddha nature like pretending the conditions are there
that you don't have certain conditioning or certain personality traits to we're to personality trait personality attributes and then we have buddhists traces
and so in any one person you have the buddha traces and then you have the personality attributes
and it's hard to separate the two
and sometimes in a teacher you see the hood traces and sometimes you see the personality traits
and which are the conditions and you though i liked the buddha trays by don't like the
the the personality attributes of the trace
and up the ultimately we have to transform our trace and to trace buddhist races
which is where buddha went where you go when she got
so as that's where we want to go and that's the way the ways leading to that place where buddha went
and left the bullet tracers for us to follow
so we practice the bath which the bath is would trysts
thousand
you know a chanting boeing
although the a buddhist traces which point in the direction of
where buddha went
but we didn't go anywhere
when so where where where where's good
ah

so sojourn isn't in tulsa her
but not moving
the here
so is this same or different it does her
netta cohen
you can follow any decided that home said well this is kind of practice and
a different better worse or dollars is real thing in the real a monastic practice many of the swastika having really loved living life
that's the process of wisdom
and he's also the price of everyday life the corner of every situation throughout our day every interaction every person we have a little situation with were always fighting and in all these different situations
and you know those different situations the the before wisdom or impressive mutation and transformation and prevalent press warning us and will transform each other
so we practice we we learn to live that way
so this a ceaseless practice and then deceased this practice is not just in the zendo
so just like we need we will bearings and we get up from southern if you forget all about the know that was you know that was a good samadi that's school
like that are all that i'd like to killing thank goodness the delaware river by those are all the conditions regardless of whether it was wonderful somali
so the lace we just get up and then we do service
ah and
and then we leave the and we forget all about the zinda until we come back again and then we meet our life and our circumstance
ah we don't you know sometimes the all you know my work i i went i'm going to do my work i can stand my work anymore i want to go and live in doesn't are gonna go live somewhere that peaceful i can really practice because my ordinary life isn't this is not practice
if my practice is somewhere else over there and then you go over there and then you see the conditions over there the conditions the monastery the conditions in the community the permit the the person in the sanga you know the browser the teacher and the oh
maybe i wanna go back to many like my life over there was better and then some people you know leave in his rope and go back to that or are they can think of that and and come over here in know this is the nevada some summarize with attorney
so might as well take a turn of where it is
in a moment to moment
whether it's in the monastery or whether is innocent in the temple in this city temple or whether it is in our job
hum
and we just immerse ourselves in in in the activity of what we need to do and forgetting about the play ah
ah
the sacred state
though the outer state
you get tested out and can do anything
who
ah but we also have to
ah if we also have to it also has to be in our activity because otherwise pretty soon we get lost in in the first problem that we need
you know sometimes i know gotta work out design in you know getting a burden for the clinic in on i'm kind of this kind of ah ah feeling wonderful you know when the mission knows a pretty ah
but i own the homeless gentleman ah
of the driver people with drug addiction will not but even that seems wonderful
and
and then start working and then we're an urgent care
and then pretty soon there's one than there's to and there's three and there's four people ah leading this one that can vary varying degrees of frustration and then there's the staff and working with one two three or four staff people in relationship to those one two three four people who need some
thing and then the stamps are getting upset about this about that and pretty soon are you know the whole thing blows up
i'm
so so we'd have to beat the stillness in that new situation not the stillness that was there before his assets
so how how how do we find them in the corner every a life in that situation as his family moving
sometimes you were back thinking i wanna be in the quiet over there then we get very frustrated it frustrating that has happened to me and interesting i've never had to kind of really really
together or because then the conditions like okay one person's okay to people
but then three four five ten twenty so then how how do you how you practice like visual acuity
where hundred thousand hundred thousand
william
ah and then the number doesn't matter anymore

are you

so ah

so are we have to practice with the situation ah that's in front of us
and that's a ceaseless practice manifest the practice in that situation
that's what dogan cause the present moment refers to the time of seized this practice
the present moment refers to the time of ceaseless practice
oh and then we can accept the situation or what we have
ah cause whether have the situation we have and ah
and we'd kind of clinging to the situation so it doesn't change into something else
because we wanted the way it is
and then it's slithering it's it's changing something else but ah slipping from our hands transforming something else that we don't want
so we asked the is there with impermanence
ah
or are we were a different situation
well we have a relationship
and we afraid of losing them so it can claim
and the more we cling
the more the person was out
or we don't accept the person we have the personally have chosen and we want somebody else
so ah than we see his practice we can just says what we have we don't really have it the as well enjoy what we have

so i think i'm gonna finish on video or read a
another path
sort of pros really from logan
but he said that i'll stop and ten questions or comments whatever you like to say
when the moment of arriving has not yet appeared
the moment of not arriving is here
when the moment of arriving has not yet appeared
the moment of not arriving is here
the moment of not arriving is the moment of array
to this this refers to the two circles
over boys soccer practice and buddhist practice
ah
when buddha is arrived
the police officer practice of not writing
and bodhisattva practice is louis practice
thank you very much
peter
ah first place that i can't they can't point to specific and since feeling very first when you read durbin he since the mom for the past
how wonderful seems so long for blogging for transforming for further ah how wonderful things were in china ah sit around wondering how you understand that
i don't read it that way
i i haven't heard that
we all hear what we hear us
ah i fight on rhythm as longing for you rather passes to
the people we should regulate because it's an awesome
great feast days
well
again sort of like that the be the two circles
in some ways you know our ancestors we need to emulate our ancestors
ah on the other hand good as always going beyond good we always finding and rediscovering gouda a new
so in some ways that's alberni
to to rediscover buddha right now not in the past and the same time that we you know honor and a
ha
love wins they worship that honor end a devoted to the practice of our ancestors said he it and a source of inspiration and and of connection with pass as playing to to the present you're getting the the past being realized in the present not not advance
yeah
mr so when circumstances are really challenging
and an l have good words for this growing might say that reality arises and passes away in each moment where stability come from that the arising a practice in each phone

that if you don't create a polarity from the challenge from the situation
there's nothing there to to polarize you
toys lego it's like i'm an instrument
which has or narc or of the burner right and the bow
ah so you have to harmonized attention
and i they would practice the tension is harmonized just like detention in our bodies harmonize
i'm so it's r us and our legs
right
my legs are killing me
you know why the like doing this to me
and so we're fighting with ourselves what for we fighting with our bodies and at some point we don't fight anymore
kenzo the detention is harmonized in the same way just like you and your legs is you and the situation or you and somebody else
can i join
peter questions the opposite questions now what christmas village what christians to ago and sexuality which is kind of constantly
pulling back and forth it yourself
well as the is that the situation is changing all the time
those stable doesn't mean at the expense of change
that's rigidity
though impermanence is what's happening
those situations always changing
so we find our or stability in that instability that constant change
is it time
okay thank you very much