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today
is the seventh day or that day seven days a sheen where we've been sitting for morning till night seven days cooking and cleaning each other and sitting together
going through our
personal dramas on the cushion
and then
i've been talking
what did money else and but been talking about town
community i'm a stories
illustrations of
enlightened
enlightenment and stories said
the officers of a monastery from dorgan said geez
shinji transition gg means the officers and shinji demons

practical
practice and practice basically or one practices actually not just ideas
i goes beyond ideas and practices without any props
some
today well i'm one thing
rojas recession is it is commemorates shakyamuni buddha's enlightenment
so we will have one
ten
ceremony of the buddha's enlightenment made it this morning and stories that i'm going to come in down today
examples of enlightenment

the time for me which will decide which story to the to talk about
but them
this is
when i chose me and by a of like to do more because they are dumped day with each other
so anyway
you know the old monasteries and china
they had
i'm grinding mills their ground their own flower in their own rice and made their own
meals from scratch basically answer them the
position the miller the bill was a little bit outside of the monastery
answer the military which and accomplished usually accomplished
a member of the community
it possible
otherwise someone else would be developed but this is a story of
an incident that expresses seven
enlightened understanding
of the miller
a zen master file you want
he was not the zen master then but actually he was zen master file you on about loser it's powers studied with priest high high schoo dot have not a coupon
he inquired about a great matter
and deeply penetrated bone and marrow which means it
he was really good student and he has really good understanding and he was enlightened and he was the miller
hmm she turned appointed him to be the chief miller
every year for you collected money by selling rice and wheat bran endured interest by reading the monday i'm not sure if that's correct the problem so he hired workers with this money to do temple improvements and put the rest of the temple treasury so he was you know really is what it really
support of the monastery
but one day someone made an accusation about him to shoot out this danger
and said every day for you on drugs why
it
he eats meat and entertains the farmers' wives
hey and young women in the mail
never in navigate we have men and women breastfeed together
in those days there was no such thing and for a monk like
five one to be doing these things was way out my
oh
so he bought a
so
the entire temple was stirred up
hearing this fly you will and purpose the bought me a while
and he hadn't them up on the wall the middle
he bought cosmetic powder and give them to the farmers' wives and the young women's
and asked them to paint their faces
when the monks came to the middle for you enter your young women's hands teasing him and laughing whether any sign of shyness
shoot up one day called into the attitude of and asked him this true
why are you doing this
who fireworks in november
no
she she then slapped his face
he didn't say no i didn't do this
no denial
no self denial
so shoot and slapped his face he can find you on did not flinch
he bowed and started to leave and she got yelled at him said kick the heck outta here
for anyone said and he took a need to settle my account first and find someone to take over my position
later fire on came to shoot ended he said i paid for the wind and the meat to change in the middle and put three hundred plus a thousand and seven which you
check anybody in the temple treasury
since she done was surprised and they can set well you know there's something really funny going on here i should i i should be trusted him
and i can see that
he's being honest and trustworthy
and realized that the accusations came from to jealousy a petty minds
so it's one thing
to be accused of something that you did
and for our worst be used simply you didn't do and how you keep your dignity in the face of this
we are so easily moved by criticism
ah
so the mill this is in
oh well let's shoot and community zen master yuan time five you wish issue so
he accepted an offer to be abbott about simeon so we asked i wanted to be the issue so his new place that this is just the kind of someone recognized ability he was a person of superior character and dignity and an example in an excellent example
have an eagle this person
oh so the middle or melly cottage take care of pounding the rice and writing the flower you know the six and way know when he went to the shift and place place vicious answers to put him in the mill to grind flour that was his job three
similar
the mill and are one hundred million cottage takes care about us so and she'd go to the sixth ancestors temple and china which i haven't done but another you can go there is a stone there which they say you know has the new principal
the level china is he accepted an offer to be the absolute amount of and and support so the middle or cut or million cottage take care of pounding racing writing flour it is located five or six show from the temple building the miller takes care of it by himself this
was fine he wants position in the past people with way mind fill this position and those who are unsuited to also fill this position but nowadays it's own to find those who at the way but this is gans constant limit it's hard to find that once you have the white mind so
well for the time being people who have some capacity or used sometimes there are such people and sometimes use map the world is becoming one
and course when pity isn't drug internet so he says when we observe old beautiful anyone's practice there's nothing that can compare with it either in the past and the present it is like the colors of peach and plum the purity of pine and cypress winter wind is now
not break it and frost and snow do not impinge on it this is very important
the winter wind does not break it thrust and snow commanded pinch other this means flexibility is the key to enlightenment
we are so rigid when something comes our way we just get hit with it
and and fall over
you don't matter band with the wind
we don't know how to hold the snow in our lives
just that an accusation against you
this is how we my experienced a how we
and
ah how inflexible people are
which i have to deal with all that
well
a nice little thing
you can move down
so
this is a great example
i admit that it's almost impossible to be like this
for everybody
to actually be able to accept false accusations against you in this way without
somebody else it got to him in anybody just taking it and seeing how off
if you are totally
depended on
honesty and integrity
that holiday
well
in a little cleverness that costs for to will sustain you
my experience is that the truth always wins out
that's been my experience or eighty five years
so winter wind does not break it frost and snow does that had been jackie we can see how diligent is thirty of the way worse we can see how often his sincerity was
those who come later should not give up their determination for the branches of the way and she's not back off even a fish with this kind of misfortune
try was practice was extraordinary
she'd take a look at this and try to make an effort in this direction the depths of the old way minds teachers can be realized through this kind of determination
the more we observe the higher than what we observe the higher and more solid we know it is and this is what we should yearn for
oh
there is another story
which i went to
to most are rejected

so this is the story
short story about that
arrogance
the first kind of evidence you know there three as cube-shaped and three kinds of arrogance
the first one is the arrogance of i'm better than you in second time is i'm just as good as you and the third kind is i really worse than everybody
if anyone embarking to know it
here's an example of several while serving is the console this is a little bit funny for me to understand console in fact in those days the assistant director sometimes the concert was the director because that person
when did everything but then as the monasteries became more
dugard and needed more officers than divided the can choose
duties into different departments
but so is your small monastery and too many students so this young a you only been there three years and he was already in pick answer but here's an example of someone will serve ready to to who clarified the great matter die
eg dodging the beans the great better matter of what birth and death
zen master zhou answer
it was once filling the position of consume in a community of five m one day fly and said consume how long have you been with us
and raja said i've been in your community for three years
charlie and said you are a junior person in a monastery so that's what little diversity how come you never asked questions
never ask me anything
she won't you said well i don't understand your teacher
i must confess when i was with better jean from i obtained a peaceful place
find and says by what words didn't you ensure that place
insurance i said
when i asked the master ching from what is the self of the practitioner
he said the fireball six fire
in other words or if you set the lamp boy she's a person who takes care of the fire
lamps in the monastery
fly and said although it's a good words
but i'm afraid you didn't understand them
she wants i said the fire boy be launched a fire fire seeking fire is just like the self seeking the self or buddha
and said indeed you didn't understand
if the buddha dharma was like that it wouldn't have come out of this day
johnson was greatly upset
and stood up and left indignant
but on the way he thought
flanders the teacher to five hundred a month
he didn't approve of me but when he said shouldn't be correct
that was his first like parish
so we turned back and apologized that was second enlightenment experience
fly and said but why did you ask me
georgia said of ways to soft the practitioner fly and said the finer points life
attempt
you zang experience great
so the next story
it's about someone who is the opposite
someone who
i'm not that since they have to answer but wants to get the answer
reading for the answer and wants to teacher to give getting the answer
zen master for we about yankee in new on province was steady with chiming
oh gee jimmy seeming moved to the monasteries of value on and to download and then to see swung he can move them from one place to another this is not uncommon
try to get it from somebody
five we assisted the master and directed the domestic affairs and all of these places although he was when the master for a long time he had not yet developed insight
every time he went to ask questions in being said oh there's a lot of work to do with the kitchen weren't you for over there please
so go away
at other times he would ask again and see would say the same thing or he would say concert
someday your descendants will fill the world what's the hurry
ah
so there was an old woman who was living near the monastery
people could that measure her she was known she is no now known as siemens old woman
whenever seeming had time he would visit her
it rained one day when she mean was on his way to visit the old woman
every little pads you know what would a dirt path so fondly was hiding set himself to hide in the narrow path
and watch to see what potential do it with this old woman
he saw she mean coming and grabbing him said old man today you must explain to me
otherwise i'll hit you
see means a come true if you understand this affair you can take a break
the affair as the double meaning men's this thing that's happening or what it means
in london
oh
so if you understand this affair
you can take a break
relax before she'd been and finished speaking find we had a great awakening
at least he had an awakening
he threw his body and the muddy ground and native restriction
he stood up again said to see me what is the meeting on a narrow what's this meeting a narrow path that's i like that what is this meeting and an arabic media know passes you're here i'm here there's no way around something has to happen right now
seeming said move over
moreover i'm going somewhere
so fun we went back to the monastery and and teacher when we're going ceo is already so the following day he dressed formally and went up to the ebook and bowed formerly to thank him
the and the initial awakenings code a showgirl the great awakening sculpt die go this
file we went back to the ones during the following day he dressed formally went on to the epoch and bounds for me to him to thank you and she'd being scolded him and said you don't have it yet
the
later that day
later that day later there's i'm sure later there was a day for shows on you know it just as we're going to have it shows and ceremony for the pernicious session where the students ask the teacher question
one ceremony questioning habit the monks who waited for a long time they all came in the agenda and here i'm waiting for the abbot ticket
and after breakfast
the works with his longtime after breakfast for the show i'm drowning but it was not heard
phone we as the anja is attendant tissues the day for on why you anything drone the entre said to habit when when i come back yet
we followed the it's path then how trail to the old woman's place and some steam in there
see me with burning firewood and the old woman was cooking google just very little party
for i we said master this is a day for shows on the entire community has been waiting quietly for you why don't you come back steaming said if you can give me a dirty word did that will return
this is being on the bat without any deviation
otherwise everyone should know eastern western wherever they want to go
did you meet or any contest
go you want
so fun we put his head and he said and took a few steps
she made with great employees and we went back to him
you understand
when you understand you will get
you say what he yes he put his head on his head and turkish jets
nothing complicated at all
that's about as simple as you can get it

it's not so difficult
gifts in every step
and the dragons jewels or every step in each wave this way the next web
where do you find it
but
who from this time on whenever it looked like seeming was leaving the monastery
fun we would have grown head to assemble the bugs
netherlands he is going
beat the drum much it's going to have to stay here
so let ten
chiming left and he came back late at night
and he was angry and he should where do you find in a reregulation forgiving formal instruction at night in a small temple such as this and find we said we got this from a phobia beyond your teacher
please don't say that this is against regulations nowadays in amongst their is
there are shows on after an ngo then do is a three eight days so this custom started from here is suggested that than the pantoja
and the monastery three and eight days of the day is that
you didn't do is the ceremony which
and the end of the five a week
and the ceremony and then
the monks have a day to wash their clothes and take care of stuff we call it is not a day off exactly modes personal day
hmm left basis
three day and
when i go to talk to her i usually used three days as
what is
and so the show is sometime in the that monastery and probably japan
they have a shows some after mention to assist ago did here and then the main thing is
he'd put his have any share and take a few steps
so what does that mean means everything was gone he didn't need to ask anymore questions
you can not get anything from the ebb you really seem that if you get from the abbot was himself
and the aperture pointing difference from go in the kitchen to do something in the kitchen total sending a stop asking me questions
so this is a person who is dependent
dependency
wanting to know
so we do at a now
been a but you can't know but knowing
he can only know by doing
we weren't the abstract everything and and have the knowledge because we depend on her head
this is where we keep reading in his price but actually gets here
teach you to find cheap here and you keep wouldn't be here and why doesn't the teacher's words match my and give
because it didn't point in here but you don't want to hear it
because yet
hum interferes with our self centered this
anything that interferes with their ego way that are good fun to the death over
anything that challenges area reporter
party senses
so we will become a stiff tree instead of a flexible branch
it's just simply are you live your life
you can you know a stiff tree always is pushed over in the wind
where's the press bands between and survives and comes back her
an end comes back up
so
ah this is hard because we are so egotistical selfish
subsidy oriented
it's natural ground in descent people say well i'm just natural i'm just being natural guess this is being natural
it's human natural children the natural and scrimmage nature to
be stuck with are eager with our self centeredness but it's brutal legend buddha because goes against that
hum
buddha the dharma
takes away our ego and we'd fight like hell for it
as soon as we
what did they go
oh his demons come up and say you think you can do that
the try it
and then we became even more
attached
because we identified with the eagle is herself
what are you point isabel and or my feelings
and all my sites
but actually
and yes that's true
petty and
we are treating these a reference and we are attached to my region and thoughts
but ah
there's something beyond our feelings and i thought
that were attached him
you know we identify with us up the reason why one reason why we are afraid to die because we are attached to himself
and we see us have a separate we are separate but we don't see ourselves as one with
as world with person death
birth is something that we love this is not something that we love unless we love it
assistant inevitable side other side of birth
and we do it will be born dime of time
and nodded to do that well we have to let it happen

in this called flexibility
so what is born and dies inside go
we feel usually through our eyes or ears or nose don't touch
our ideas
and then if i don't treat it who am i
to takes courage
takes courage to practice actually maybe not to go through the motions but to actually practice takes courage because it means let it go
this is the coroner stepping off the hundred foot pole when you get to the type of the pool you have to set off
you can't stay there
so
this is the firebox during fire boy thought he was a tenth of pole
but then his teacher showed them yet the us
he thought he knew everything
but when you step off the gorgon and and then you know everything you don't know everything until you know nothing
hmm so we depend on but when we even though that's a great question i think that's a good car to everybody what do i tell her
and you can use that early life
to underline uganda
so
compassion
yes
but when i read whatever you really compassion about what if compassion for compassion about
the suffering that caused by our self-centeredness
and art rigidity
and are built an ability to be flexible this is the question of separate
there are many more but basically rigidity and sticking to some idea
good or bad weather bone
it's kind of shopping

you know in the dabbler powder which is the simplest the world buddhist and one of their the earliest for a book shelf
he insulted me he added the intend estimate you did that to me and put a show this is because of shepherd this is the main thousand of shepherd
so until we can give that up
that really stuck no matter how good our practices if we can do better it doesn't interest me about anything
blame
in fame
looking for fame and attaching by if a really big ones
wow

so
that'll be my via a question
ah was
ha i am curious about distinctions we played and disappointment
it feels like playing as a judgment
it's a condition of judgment judging someone and then if few get disappointed does it feel as strong a judge if you're still a an expectation and a let down at it can be disappointed to the person who feels this disappointed get wondering if how my works with
a disappointment yes just be disappointed
should i have expectations no
just be disciplined and like lower your expectations to german as and expectations
happy that i can hear you get from time to time you have don't do anymore
james
this the second story dollars back fine wine which he acts very provocative way yes and the story is job and to can
showcase their kind of what kind of showcase sad or rack route occasion
the concern of perfect manner wondering like your jacket else
whether you are wondering if you're trying to tell us oh
yes we might work when it trent what's the point of the story so would you them yeah to the story is in this case
the student
was depended on a teacher
and the teacher pointed to them but it to the student didn't get
the sensitive actually
threaten to get it
right center and he it
he's he's talking about him another story at their first quarter i think you're trying about the second story attacking back both stories know you donate one of the time
the second story we hear that there's river a bad of the that know that's the first story was very lucky days ago but
i'm not a cursed out and i actually life revising the device cosmetics okay because africa is yet again it's served by
challenging than norm is the yes monastery and but there's a sense of approval in yes than the the netherlands
he wasn't defending himself directly he wouldn't say no i didn't do that when he was accused he didn't say no to do that
there was no self to defend
have you even accentuating even accentuated yeah the accentuated the story he said this is no here's the story and just been told about me but pelicans say i into it
then you have to see what's happening here
and so this is no it kind of stroke of genius because see created this drama which everybody can see through without him having to deny anything
does story is i see it
which is not what we would ordinarily do
then it's almost like he takes the that the air out of the accusations about drinking or out like well how about this yeah and we can do that or not you that affects you know what what air daylight
as looks at right over
so
no yeah i think the i don't see the two axes equal or provocative i think this story and a couple of days ago with and he got into this story and and that needles and lael and that was an active i've i've heard it is that's to restore it and they did it's an active express yeah i heard it is ten
a wanting to please people with their food as an act of edo and and that's not provocation so much and he got it out the expression of ego and this one is ah yeah if you say so if you say so yes
if you say so that's that's the story if you say so
thank you so if it sounds to me like it's more about if there's something that occurs it's more about how we respond to it or where we bring our ego and let's say this guy says what he keeps smack in the everytime i walk in there and you keep saying it keeps mac and me well
well that has an ego at but if he used it as well it keeps mac and me and i'm like you can smack so i'm not going to do it anymore i'm not going to go there anymore so she feels to me like that if there is something that doesn't really seem to work well whether you were you go with that it does
does it mean you have to still engage in that but it's how you just engage with it no darn
it's not about escaping is a bug facing
the hum flimsy know how you escape from it
the way we escape by blaming
doesn't attempt but didn't work
if you don't blame and just say have no now i don't want to get spanked anymore so i'm not going to steal attempts by well you know this is speculation were not talk but i don't want to get into speculation
that's just me
lived this is about going beyond this
back on track is
yeah
i'm like oh we don't explain and i can usually get sucked in doing that
but i'm not going to
yes we talked i see about taking blame and are wednesday night group and the
character in his story to blame very overtly yes to we to show that it didn't matter to him in our modern world it seems we have to take blame by stealth was something that came up so that people don't lay on as the burdens of the world and to carry them but the same time we recognize taking responsibility
he doesn't burn us with responsibility effect when the weapons the first thing you said that we were talking about using doesn't blame stealthily in secret so the people don't so obviously know it he took it plainly and clearly where everyone could see it yeah okay that's what it's guess but
he didn't exactly take it
yeah he acknowledged it that was there was no blame really
so there was no blame for him to take because he didn't actually did it
so basically even more complicated
there's something that he didn't do but he was not going to say i didn't do it
that's there's another story
and then this
there was a year
a prince into japan china and
and he had a sword very kind of famous sword that thumb
those things and have famous science and
someone took it the sword disappeared
and his men would on social and they found this person and split who had the sword
and so they brought the guy with a sword and it's said this is the guy who's your sword and the prince said that's not my son is his
there's no sequel to the story
her voice the ways is no state programs go but that's what when he said last time i saw last to him so to think of what that into the guy took the sort girl true
i can tell
small boys
erica cause you're sure

what were you can say oh just a did did he get down a after his theatrical assumption of oh doh oh i miss you that you did know somebody said skies great i'm going to ask him to obedience you so the head monk at my monster blessed
no
the
this is a mature person
proof of shit i think it hasn't
raising your hand
oh okay thank you
i wonder if you would say a few highlights about five for like six style
like what
a man like whoa
you well on the story tells us when it's not
it's not the south belongs in itself right that's students hold of fire boys reflect the medium five which inspired falcon
well you know
it's that's a complicated it's when way thinking mine is the mind that cease fire
the man
and
good a cinch buddha
what we're looking for is what we are yeah yeah basically what we're looking for to go out to help and so you know when the teacher when the student wants to teach you to tell him to secret there's no secret to tell him
so is barking up the wrong tree and this is what the teachers telling you you're barking up the wrong tree and know it's not here it's over there i mean is here so you should do that
but to put into storage together issue right i forget to take is going to fire boy
you're the right direction so you know we're always looking for something out there country in the here
but every rancher one shot as little structure similar to that was launched chez first thought that last page or teacher that want to stop six the fire where you already are explore yes the work and that's interested in and no no that's not it when he said you don't understand
it he didn't say that's another you said
you don't understand it
used to observe required with the said
you get the right answer and teacher getting the right answers
and i have the race i've heard from him
check out of that was amazing
the title women less than said since
still be that doesn't he also say that and heard of way i heard it was the stuff belongs to this up and that's why it's the rock snapping
because there's not too cells
he makes this the regime the know
the the problem is his arrogance
it has done in there are still thinking about the story where iran is that he didn't understand if they didn't have if he had not arrogant did not americans who would have understood the story the story himself is correct
historians are covered that the whole thing about nation that's an interesting story that like
he he didn't know the answer he just didn't understand the answer that he knew that he's unfair
that will i got i've got the answer from my teacher but he didn't get it for myself
but if an answer itself is correct that's why when he went back he said well we'll tell you tell me i felt when you tell me the story and tell me and i'll tell you what i think so he said well fireplace which were not and what will you please tell your story in the teachers that fireplace and sweat
a
story with all correct is that he even though he thought he had it this is arrogance he thought he added so we didn't have to talk to the teacher anymore
he said well i gather over there you know
here's the monastery
why don't we have to talk to you and i'm to come here and to food is good
photos from ended elements
the a sorta
but big arafat in the first degree i know why in here for at least not mentioned here so i like i think you're pretty good teacher but why do we have to talk to you if he had really been a good student and had understood
he will
i've been having different attitude constituent
people often come into the monastery well i am
and living challenge challenged and teacher daughter
i just don't talk to you know
i know it's much cheaper
even if they did
doesn't matter if but because doesn't know how to relate to the teacher means and he just never enlightenment
because it doesn't know how to talk to the abbey and and how to relate
this little mean she's not a one person right there and understand that
so you've never tasted anything