Sandokai Lecture Two

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i'll leave you with that we're going to continue where we left off and
fast during a lecture this morning was more of a lecture that this afternoon
i'm can ask questions or of
ah
if you have anything
to say to
we can have by long so
before we go on and
wondering if you have any questions from this morning
this
ah
hey and
i'm sorry
where's here and say it does because i said well as you say let's say when there's no discrimination everything is ok okay
amethi okay
everything is done it as are up and that was wondering about if there is discrimination
everything is okay that's not that that it'll m
a simplistic
so we can't remember there is discrimination and then discrimination and
the discrimination means to compartmentalize way i talk about what discrimination mr texans part
to divide this cream and eight
just criminalize and discriminate based on two separate but so when we talk back to
discrimination and and that separation
and when we're talking about
not discrimination we're talking about
the cohesion
so
discrimination
based on self centeredness is what causes suffering that's because of suffering according to the dharma
when we discriminate discrimination is important and necessary because we live in a dualistic world
but idealistic world were completely dualistic because idealistic world is based on non duality
so
the discrimination and synthesis synthesis means bringing everything together in one
and when everybody everything together in work
there's no opposite
no opposite
when there's no opposite there's nothing
to be
to cause suffering
when right if you cut your finger you suffer
but not necessarily
it's just that we think that that's it we're supposed to do
so
we're talking in this in this way
ah we have to understand the underlying principles so we're not talking about
every single instance
you know you can talk about your experience and
what causes
you're suffering but basically the causes of suffering
based on discriminating mind so when you say okay knowledge from is okay
may not be okay it's better is it okay you sort of case is an okay with you
maybe you came admitted that you did something that you're to that cause you to suffer but it's not okay with you
so
that's what sat there for a second guy was talking about every every a quadrupling
i mean for flights
is the same the same thing from a different vantage point
can't think of it from a different point of view
is it possible that have discrimination without opposition as long as you don't want it to the different discrimination you know we have to we have to separate one thing from another
but it's not the show based on self-centeredness
in county about something else than self-centeredness
but we don't always understand realize our own self centeredness
so our attitude so basically
we talk about our attitude toward our experience
i added to direct our experiences when they sell the difference
i
guess i was thinking of at times but i really don't like something i can bring that same awareness to that feeling of dislike at you have a
ah
accepting open awareness of my dislike the
yes
but the more attached we are to our lives in this life
the harder it is to avoid suffering
so this is why did these terms attachment
discrimination
i'm kicking in choosing these are all terms that are used
to describe the causes of suffering

the wanna getting ahead but didn't actually been gets portrayed in the commentary says if you're if you're taught you that office in great detail about you know he says there things one
what what what ought to be upset about give like the quality of what is the what did the self centered yes it is self centered upset or not is so showing know this phrase
the discrimination of not discrimination
two
discrimination and and physical on our life is one on after another
i'm less interested that where we don't see it i like is one moment one runcorn after another because whatever we say there's another avenue miss an opposite
whatever we said what and how do we could include opposites
how do we see the oneness of opposite how do we experienced the oneness of opposites
so
tom
good and bad right and wrong yes and no

so
back to
them
social security prisons the son of a domestic terrorism me okay
am i guess master because i'm a okay i've talked about this than this illustrates your question
he is so hi how's it possible that escape from the heat
you know if you've ever they can desert
the mojave desert and gets so hot you really want to be filled up you where you can't deny that and yet there are creatures than who need
and if you go to the north pole you can get article this is natural and of course but we're talking about our attitude
you can actually live in the north pole and without observing
call if you can't go to the desert without being willing to be hot
so when you go to the place where there's neither hot nor cold
and then he said this is the third place where it's neither cold nor hot there's not really talking about called have to talk about birth and death
but she's talking about
have you know where can i go with is no birth and death
when you alive just be totally life when you get to be totally death
but we equivocate
we have this
we don't let it be then you won't be like but we realize you're never going to be dead
so that's a life and death his birth and definitely being think to us
how do we be dead while alive and a well we did

know how to be totally damning or gift and have you totally eleven were like this is
within this
you know how to get out of prison
so that person is there a place where there is neither cold or heat where there's need a cold
where there's be the birth to death basically
and the mattress said when it's called you should be collaborative learning is how we should be happy with it so you live your life totally while you're alive all the way to the in
that's how to be go to be dead
what you do totally now will determine what you do totally in the next moment
you can just something as part of the now
it will you do something halfheartedly in the next moment
so mr simon is cold you should be cold buddha when he's had you should be hard to to you may think that if you practices and you will attain the stage where there is neither hot nor cold
it's nothing there will be neither are no cold is just that when it is had behalf when his cold
where there is no pleasure of suffering so you can't miss that place where there's no pleasure is up and because medium as a human being you want pleasure and you get suffering
you may ask in fact is athens is a pustule headache entertainment and the true tissue with thing when you suffer just suffer completely
give you when you're seventy this african then when things change you just have enjoyment completely
if you really suffer halfheartedly can be enjoyment among the half hearted
so sometimes you should be suffering buddha and sometimes used to be a kind it so it's like we think if i'm suffering i'm like buddha or if i'm crying on that buddha but for suzuki roshi when you crying you're crying to it when you're suffering suffering boot it when you're
happy you're happy good buddha is just that you're always good but then you go through these having these experiences as buddha
so when you feel good he should just feel good sometimes should be as every bullets and tendency be a crime builder and sometimes be very happy buddha and this is how we experience i like totally
yes of what a so again from this time them run the ambivalence is is the great thing to not do don't ever be ambivalent we don't never mind could you visit don't ever tell me something during three
sometimes if you're a little buddha okay you can be a decent good if you can be heartedly gimpy half dream i but you know where you are
you know if this is that this is what i do it on purpose moms do what on purpose whatever you didn't do it do it with
you know do with awareness and learned you're doing yeah awareness and a wholehearted of this and including being divided including been event
yeah how how does like
that's right
yeah
it's a pedestrian yeah voice having doing something wholeheartedly with a now self centered in paris on yourselves hazardous any sense well yes don't just barely an extra your anger that
feel feel feel feel feel your anger totally yeah but and present in the you act on your anger

there are people that act on their anger and then we say oh my god and tech a machine gun and kill other people
so that's subset of anger that's acting up through self-centeredness
aren't you know it's it's our infinity what passes for for norm sometimes insanity
you don't react insanity there really isn't around us
ah
so there's a sense of passivity their posts passiveness person if if i'm if i'm angry i know an angry so it's like you it's susan accept a surrender acceptance then there's this other side of we want to make well no it's yeah
well as this says of making adjustments
said something part of what you're saying is don't you don't try to make it better don't try to be more comfortable if you're if you're hot if you're if you're dead
so is there is it if you can be more comfortable if you can be more comfortable go ahead and do it ah you can make adjustments he just minute there's dissident of the problem is you can make an adjustment in the vicinity good life isn't caught life is adjustments okay that's what like is about adjustment say of obj
just the most passive through both accepting and you're adjusting a thing except this and assertiveness can passively epicenter the same time very same time let's go riding the way when driving live
riding away is is that passivity but personally peaceful list
literally
so the peacefulness is good and assertiveness also so you're driving and following at the same time so it's not much passive it's why you see what's here just see what is called the patina
but you you so my passwords and every passover samantha is is to stop and look and be passionate means to investigate
get buddhist practice let the very same time if you can do that at the same time in fiscal balance and recall is being at the center
so there's neither one is dominant
it means considered activity considered action well considered action
gypsy interesting example came up yesterday on the americans and pietrus association list evidently mississippi there was this cycle
and have someone was reading from mississippi one of the features in the group of saying or the cycle came through and we heard it coming and we sat
and they were a group people who responded well that's really sad practice and there was another group of people of which i was watching tv that's really dumb you know why would you
put your life and everything has risk when you you've actually go into the silk
learn to where they wanted they do deserve and
either in their zendo
exposed to disciple anyway the this the details
i'm not clear on and i wasn't there but ah
i've been cured in chile's question if there's something in your response is there's something that you can do to which kill to protect life path to do that you know you don't have some abstract idea of zen behavior or
you know
mystification
anyway thank you you should do
which can do and you can
know
it's going to drink water when you had
but when you when you
you know
ah it's not about a rule about what to do is been attitude
and how you approach your life
not about rules or details
about the details what if you know what i'm thirsty inertia have a drink of course
visit taken care aspect because i'm mister say taking place where exception but you're also taking care of your spy year your for you to have your body is
take care of your life
but

how do you how you approach birth and death
harry how do you approach something that the
a situation work that
you can escape from basically
so we're always escaping
you know we were years accountable as we put a lot of cushions on the couch you know we see them and it's very comfortable but then after whilst not the comfortable
and we have to move and so we're always changing our equipment is configuration is to say
now we're not changing the fundamental when we're not dealing with fundamentally is changing our equipment so we don't have to deal with a fundamental
that's god we have
see the about we keep changing so that we don't have to deal with what's really in front of us
so practice isn't really face with and probably let's practice whatever is faced with your friendly
judy
and keep coming back to this is the call and he cried to this is a of like you and rewards and atonement that says a ah well i did that more wages that men for that happened yeah i can feel pain i e l j sensor
okay was the one who did that is awesome ones as now but sometimes it gets stuck in that intellectual is a new separation
and i i hear something we'll let you say this was incense around
that's what practices practices showing up for all the confusion and in the chancellor with that keeps coming up yeah so
no remorse i did something really bad so went away and so i have this feeling that when we do that that
well you can have a drink
you know which is what people do
because he can't stand it
so have you have you faced that how you deal with the thing that kept is the most difficult thing to deal with without escaping
that's what that that's what the attitude is
do you deal with the thing that you can't do with
calgary russian used to say
teddy bear the unbearable
how do you been and we also say
hell just no place to practice
for them
we have to have that attitude actually to practice helms just another place to practice

ah pi into some of it he said nothing
perhaps not any on to what you're facing the is free historias the cat will fill of that is that has some don't add any job we don't have to add initially you know with if everything's going along beautifully done and
yeah don't have to make yourself feel bad just to existence
going to
when things aren't going so well donana don't have anything to don't have anything and don't just take anything away
and the self awareness in this is this not separation from
what's out there
jake fits there and not to get i didn't not to create the jackson you know to see things clearly right
to see this is the past it is
as it is know how i'd like to see if and wish it was
that's how we
gain strength

so
she's incorrect choices and actually they're armed up there is no dull person or smart person
either way it's not an easy sff
there's some difficulty from both of my impression in the dull person for things because he's that too smart and dull person to study hard and mean book over and over yes that's me
i just have few books and i just read them over i have tons of books but only a few bucks that
and over and over again
now
and smart person
you may forget quite easily and made their own question that live here she learns the net states alone for an adult person takes time you remember something but if he reads it over nobody remembers in of luck oasis in so smart or dumb in that makes it so much difference
sunsets is provisionally talking about as a psychic or says it's not for this thread and doesn't matter whether president who still living there are smart and w and of course is this doesn't have nothing to do with being smarter and smarter don't
so well here the factories maybe sharp or dull move can we need a village near me down party in the central cottage point is nerves are important but it is interesting to understand what human potentiality is in buddhism and other to explain further our understanding and practice will
it is necessary correction surgeon
so nin is human can is rude or potentialities of so an income with human potentiality
a
somebody was decent
re here in someone who has an advantage in need
down means someone who has a disadvantage
so the root of human potentiality is a advantages and five as well as a disadvantage for sometimes our advantage is also a disadvantage can we say you know my my
a m
my virtue is also mine therefore we work when i when he's actually good about music so bad about me
the situation
i'm sorry i'm i'm forty three
like command and the workplace
and then i'm pretty good
how matter how much instead at one time my head and everybody go to the library and pick out a book and open the bug and wherever you often the book cares the dharma
yeah the practices
philippine job you
seven have he says
right
please
okay
oh yes nice he says
this is this happiness is that exactly the same as the happy news that the provision of the that
for designer there is a little difference in the little difference is significant because good as know both sides a reality that has this kind of composure
the united grand not disturb us and bad are ecstatic about something good
they have a true joy that will always be with him
the basic tone of life remains the same in into paris and happy melodies and sad memories are like that a lot i was just a the the and
and
tim bradley i don't actually know his own instrument from way back but he's as apologise and good anthropologists and you just wrote this book come dear
you not harry roberts and it won't go into this area which was that gringos that he wasn't an indian that he lived he will burn up with indians
and
he talks about
come the method everybody has a melody
and they they have the indians make our melodies for whatever they're doing
and if says
the example one example is
wanting to chop down a tree to make a canoe
so
the the the canoe maker has a melanin gets it he you've been some ld and or he brings up a malady then he goes around in the forest and a chanting and singing his melody and he may do this for a week or two and then one day a tree with
a hey and what we're here
and
it's very obvious and he and the tree fall in love with each other
and sometimes can even before the because down the tree the tree is so happy that it falls over by itself
you know
the caucasian came in and ruin that whole thing you know that decision advanced society that they didn't recognize it is out of it
trivia that it was far more advanced because people get commune with nature then we check it down
ah ruin the lakers but we didn't happen to you know often said that
each one of us has a hum
have you ever heard you have you know like if say you're fairly contented

so anyways that's a really have enlightened person in the person may have that means that williams or when you said you should be completely involved and being hired be said without caring for happiness
when you are happy you should enjoy the happiness
we can do this because we are ready for anything even those circumstances change suddenly we got mine today we may be very happy and the next day we love me what will happen to us when we are ready for what will happen tomorrow then we can enjoy your day can print the you do this bonus the lecture
but
the
but you know what he say is that without expecting anything
it's just like that and you don't expect it is so there's you expect something everything changes
as soon as you want change he wanted to be different
he still suffers
even though you know if you separate but
with this kind of attitude just being open to whatever
there's happiness even within the unhappiness
even within the southern is joy
fernando valley
you the oneness of do out
the joy so deep that if not gm are affected that much by the unhappiness or the of the difficulty

so these are second to words
later in toes on time three generations after second term people got stuck in word games the brightness and darkness so when he's really talking about his toes and fabrics
some of us are studied five race doesn't
but what what was the problems was that
people start playing games with it
and then it became an intellectual kind of
the best time so dominant do by dealing with it but nevertheless children that doesn't mean it's not a good study because we get this
so then i'm talking about the bright side in the dark side and the middle way but they lost the point of how to be real freedom so they stuck second intellectual realizing those ants
it's
the dog isn't he was old and still later did not get cut up and were game so much rather he emphasized how to get out of their games by surely appreciating things moment after moment he was more interested in a column like when it is called you should be called buddha
that's all to be completely involved with what you were doing without thinking about various things just don't get way this kind of attainment has reached through actual practice not three words
so we get caught in try to figure things out and why why why he just happen by why have so you can help you understand anything
when you are very realistic when we are getting confused they can help you but if you are too interested in talking about these things you will lose your way we should be interested in action thousand none in these words and we should practice actual fashion
so don't consent is ways to find a meaning in each being or each dharma like a grain of rice or cup of water have you appreciate each grain of rice actually how to appreciate
a cup of water he talked about
dug in with when he came to a stream with take a cup of water
he would drink half the waters and return the other half to stream
ah bit line this kind of the of this reached through actual practice not few words yeah her voice out myself when i'm singing or music or gassing if there words involved it's a whole different thing than just words it's good words are there but it's
well the artist as new with which music network news music can both
you know act sekitar actually was enlightened by reading
the second dollars of money was really the same john st john was a check your coverage era was as indian
scholar who translated the centers so that the chinese could actually understand them
so it was a great translator sancho with his chinese disciple
and st joe wrote a treatise called a prisoner is not
prajna is not information or that in permission of driver prajna is not know
large project is not knowledge so and
senator was reading his treatise and it got repetitive wonderful realization
so that can happen so whatever we talking about designs and other side