Seijo and Her Soul

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Lotus Sutra, Saturday Lecture

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so much
the was removed them i have in common male teachers forget
he was for natural than i am from you
from
gonna come to forget
which much fancy getting said
it only comes once in one version
so sad like forget set
a preoccupation

forgetting what you doing
you know to
because you might have taken over with thinking
it

so
do you think most of you probably know the story of the prodigal son is the lotus sutra
this also appears in the bible
some a parallel stories there's a difference
come in there
the lunacy job
the story
a and young men to
he goes out to seek his fortune in the world leaves his father
goes out to teach them to receive them seek his fortune and unfortunately he's not so successful
and he wanders around
he goes through all kinds of
what kinds of her adventures and ends up in rags and tatters and he stumbles around and insisted and fifty years
that
but ah he passes through this country which he has forgotten about well actually the meantime his father
has accumulated an enormous amount of wealth
his father is actually becomes the richest man in the world
and he's surrounded by pearls and diamonds and you know all those things that we associate with love
and
this is actually maybe living in a different country are different
see
and
the sun doesn't really nice that city said it comes through but his father sees him
somehow the father
recognizes and kind of like the way a mother would recognize a child
and his death my was son
little wrath debtors
so
ah the father says out some of his servants to just apprehend him and talk to him
and
you consider his to the a little bit
nervous know he doesn't know how to make this and so then i going tell the sender of father it don't tell about me
ah but i want to
game cause
so the servants say we knew we'd have a job for you go different versions of story but he says if you like now
meet every job and seven fencing okay i'm going for a job
yeah and can
get the job at the stables chivalry ship
shouldn't be shared which part of the story
has been importance
this kind of metaphor actually runs out through them as well as the lotus sutra
so over time
in variance in our back and forth and you want to go through the whole story that much it turns out that
the sun stays around for twenty years and in that time the father can sometimes goes out and works with him just as a servant without revealing his identity
and then they become close and friendly and fathers if you where you can just have to run the house if you want but the of relation to home people he doesn't feel comfortable enough
and over a period of time
the as the old man's ready to die
he reveals to his son that he's really come in and he inherits the whole
all their wealth of the father
now this is the head of story yet either
even if it hasn't interesting things
to father doesn't reveal to him that he's going to inherit asian but it persists than than the sun simply doesn't work
you know sometimes in buddhism
enlightenment is
the character
in soccer then there's no character
we we don't say if you work real hard you'll get enlightened if you practice have you get enlightened
the sun just works just as the word without expecting the fortune this very important part without expecting anything he just as worth it really happened to have his shop i'm shoveling the ship
there's a on
so am
what is boot up
my guess it world as buddha
and teaches it a ship by boosting there is by car
kodansha i think stiff
do i pitched it means something use declarative poop
declared have done from your body mind
if your it's called practice
practices is a ship recorded
you
we say
the graduate patches snack rancho
enlightenment and seven but gradually
gradually are enlightened medicine
the graduate and seven now and the same thing
oh
so this leads me to
my case
this is my reduction
the case is in humans collection of poems
my collective forty eight come how to move on com
k thirty five is called st joe's so separated and talked about this case several times and she must of you're familiar with it
this is if this is a story of the prodigal daughter
we're retired that planet percent but this is a prodigal daughter
and
gozo was a
important zen master the tang dynasty and much of his lineage and is still alive today
sagar so
send to his marks
st joe's soul is separated from her being
which was the real saito
some say joe not telling the story he didn't go story
but i will
sergio failure with young girl
and
finch i was
i grew up with a young man named what you
and just china visit a japanese names
and
they can grow up his kids and
they just expected that they will be married sunday
we just like why what else can happen you know if that was their plan since childhood so that the father in a different idea
and when you were coming of age the drivers that i want you to marry someone up
and the post say joe nocera were like devastated
so say joe decided
and she's going to run away
so she has done both in oath can really i think it was going down a canal to the ocean
and
she's she's a little figure really
i'm running after the boat he said filtered there the the stem or his religion should weigh between it ensures that your be okay you and ah but you jumped on the boat and they go down the street
and the end up in the city done some distance away and they set up a house and they have a catholic church in time and to happy
and said yourself one day told you she should you know i am i really feel bad for my father you know he bought me a happen just filial piety china and i should go visit him let's go visit my father and can make em
men's
and now
so that he said okay so they think about and they go back to the father and they landed romance that of the dock and put yours as well i'll pay is way
so you should you stay here and about kids and
so he goes up to path knife the door and father opens the door
and
but she says i knew medicine i should have if she knew for five years when you been doing
fact is if i married a daughter and we ran away and we'd come back you know japan respect and he says
what be talking about
shl it's has been insane just in they said she's been in bed
that people to wake up for five years
and oxygen are you kidding
she didn't need for five years we have raced to give
and and ten point was coming up the path
and she can get the definition day
then within is that happens the others ginger who has been lying dormant for five years comes out and they look at each other and embrace
so the question is which one is the real danger
that's car
which one is to real saito
so here is no man's comment
smile since when you realize what the real tears
you will see that we passed from one has to another like travelers starting for a night's lodging
but if you do not realize it yet i originally advise you not too much about wildly
when earth water fire air than a separate you don't be like a crab struggling and doily water with seven eight arms and legs happens don't say out in one

so i'm gonna feel a bit about will not come in
he says when you realize what the real is
you will see that we passed from one has to another one husk but i want to check that would say so means and also about the of the has been
the sort of related
so here doesn't mean the an eternal soul which contains forever and
m goes through embodiment to embodiment but only stays the same
that's not what this catherine
saw means and most religions but not here
it simply means the separate self low if you said in the center itself so you can say
set st joe's self
is separated from her being
and husk here means something like states of mind
we go from one state of mind to another continuously on my mind is continuously changing the states of mind are infinitesimally
i'm being transformed
so this is com
mental space travel
yeah mental space travel minds are continually journaling through mental space
the thoughts and feelings imagination imagination imaginings opinions
decisions in the west
it's kind of the scenery of our life
the travels through the special of our mind continuously
so when you realize what they're really is
what is the real
you will see that we passed from one state of mind or state of be to leather like travelers starting from nights lodging
but if you don't realize it yet i personally advise you not to rush about wildly deliverance sit down
sit down and two thousand
if you want to know what their real is sit down with two thirty
half a dozen if is embracing the real
yeah embracing the real of embracing herself you embracing yourself you connecting with your true self
the wild monkey sitting down and embracing the to self
which is
which is
so what earth water fire air suddenly separate in other words when you think when you bought my transport basically
you will be like a crash or than the boiling water with it cylinder it on two legs because you may not be connected to hurt yourself
when i was dumbfounded when you
so

huh
buddha you know like a matchmaker

buddha
match you up with yourself
and when we say thousand we match up with herself
focus with yourself
so where our focus without realizing that were out of focus
the old cameras you know the lens you return the lands in internet and to cross hairs slap and then it's in focus
but often by crossing into not lining up because we're
trying to figure out of our favorite life
the activities of are femoral live without being based on our be mind to life they
no we say
the true human body is a whole universe
europa is mind
is really an aspect of the whole universe is not separate we're not separate with her separate beings who are not separate
your body is shared by all the last one by many
characteristics call each other
the also say
the parisa is halo is the whole universe illuminates the whole universe
who
matthew little his comment
the first after the activity after the comedy as verse he says the moon above the clouds is other the same
valleys and mountains from separate from each other
allah bless our blessed are they want or are they too
if you think they are one
that's only half right
if you say no to that's only half right
if we talk about lenders
i'll get stuck in oneness that's a disease
if we get stuck in separation that's also a disease
so is one or the to
the moon above the clouds is ever the same
forget a we look at the moon's various phases which that's a new moon
now as a half man
but even though we say that's a half modem or that's a quarter moon or that's a sliver of moon the moon is just the moon
the moon doesn't care what you think it's just a total of moon
this is like i am
discriminating
world
we'd like it all the parts in a partial way
parts his partial
with this evening's in a partially but we don't see the whole mood we only see he asked for the moon
when we see the aspects of book as the man we have to know that to realize the aspects of the aspects of the whole moon
and the aspects of our mind
our opinions are partiality our ego are just parts and the moon
what is the whole learn how do we access the home
otherwise it's a delusion
and listening access the whole loop
we can do many wonderful things in the world or not but it's all partiality

valleys amount of the separate from each other yes they are this is a valley
that's the them and that's the by and estimate are simply the waves of the earth
and we can
appreciate the mountain
we can appreciate the value of his arm and peace
tom a pinch
this is a united states and them mexico and canada it's on one piece
so wherever we stand recovered the whole world
even anything this berkeley
wherever we stand we kept the go over your just these arbitrary divisions that we make up
in order to
get wealthy
whenever
i'm separate from you and then we believe that
i'm separate them you
and i been until region we believe it is true we are separate
we're not separate is at one or is it to it's not one is martin
they weren't early to
hmm

master sekitar says
the absolute and relative fit together like a box and his lid perfect fit
when the absolute and relative fit together like a box in it's live
that's focus perfect focus nothing that go
cause big mind and small perfectly mention
it's like two arabs to arrow points meeting in mid air
you know that story
you're too much it
and one was the gender versions of story has but one was a student of the other
and somehow they got into a fight
and he started shooting arrows
bam
one of the out and the other one shattered now and into as met in midair pass out candy

so how can we be an integrated person
you know we say that
how we have
sozzani
in his to a channel for a buddhist teaching
we always go back to zaza no matter how much you want to talk about it it's all about that them because as him is where we kept is teaching
we have against it said that lecture somebody else can like share with you mean post but thousand is the teacher
you've got everything that we have to know is there intention why because
it's simply about connected by a mind with the universe
it's cosmic activity where our nature is both cosmic in personal
personal
you know when it's personal
my body mind is changing moment by moment you can we talk about reincarnation well how can they be real condition which one of us which one of us being reincarnated last moments person next moments person
person us for person which will want people to act which one if he was a too passive
but that doesn't mean there's not birth
i don't know about rebirth
there is birth moment by moment moment by moment everything is being born
nothing is the way it was even that looks like it
and when we have a friend for thirty forty years
and we relate to them daily player looks like the same person
if you were away from that person for thirty years you look at that proves that they wow you really changed
but we don't see that you don't see yourself
moment by moment there's birth rebirth
because
that person that we think it's there is tied
the last moment is gone never to be resurrected
the next model his birth death birth death moment by moment by moment that's our life
life includes birth and death
which no life and death retired about life and death but actually read opposite birth and death becoming and cc or opposite like includes both
becoming and season
since so
suzuki roshi used to say and others this is our sort of then understanding
life and death and the same thing
in this we can understand that they are the same thing
i am
when earth water fire air suddenly separate he'll be like a graph
struggling in boiling water with at seven or eight on the ledge

where's the separation

oh well after sunset second one yeah

lester
he also has another go on
it's pretty similar he says when you meet and person of the way around the wayfair
now
when you meet a person of away on the path do not meeting with words or was silence tell me how will you meet him
this also a lot about meeting
who is this person you meet on the path
oh
it's you
when you meet yourself
how will you be yourself that using words
that music science

and molasses in such a case if you can manage an intimate meeting with
him or her it will certainly be gratifying
but she cannot be marshall
analysis meaning a person is there were man meeting event of the way on a road who was that
me neither worst of silence a pajama job
understand if you can directly understand
but a punch on a giant fans violent but image
shaking to up
yeah
ah like
interesting your dream

understand it directly

haven't you understand it directly
without any contrivances
and the i can use
do like
they retraces his
assuming mind
henderson it means no contrivances
you don't have anything
you have lesson beaches or nothing
that's so sad it's called reality

if he had no plan or scheme inaccurately and innocently

but we have so many defenses
and
i've
ways to
support ourselves on crutches to support herself and it's hard to actually approach
and make ourselves
in a guileless way
what about anything
yeah zazen is an offering
catherine cassidy is it's an offering we just totally thrown us up into this posture
with no idea about religion nothing can kill know important thing is nothing to get de janeiro wax talking about and when time
he had a stellar a professor or simply city she and professor gotta sell solution i'm not getting anything out of this at all
and he left
and this elusive he and time
if actually girl ballerina has been realized
a circular motion is to say
when you get enlightened be careful what you ask for because you mean like it
that's very true
is it is that really what you want to have really lately
i don't think so
because we're not we're we're not really to give up anything i'm not talking about you
it's hard to give up really hard enough
if if you are in line with the ecological everything better image simple enlightenment is lots of heart wasn't in typical his practice
our practice starts from enlightenment because when we start area
practice means we get an idea in the enhances the people during this funny thing was earlier expressed and we want to do that and then restart doing it and let etc like mine places to practice
and then
through practice we keep letting go and as we keep letting go only late margaret river
so ah
practices
counterintuitive
so to speak because what would really wanted getting was collected at of stuff and more and more asked a panther and practices that go go go go
but there's a balance
so
the point is renegotiation doesn't mean to throw up your goods into the into the creek into their into the ocean because they was over the ocean do with it
are you should you have to take care of you stuff so that it was playing around too much as somebody else has to deal with it
it simply is just keep letting go all the time
so even though amateur a regime used to say
i don't really own this typewriter but i am i since i need to use it from that work
i'm like i'm the jail
and circulating you think these are my glasses in i rarely classes
and everything belonged to me this is what i hear my name suzuki toshio funny because i'm not physically
does this as something that somebody failed on me i don't feel have learned with that name and alexandria one minute
if it's funny because that's not who i am
show evaluation recent my glasses and failure will be allowed me to thank you for letting me wear them
ah so it's not so much what we have
i will be
take care of
but
it's nothing that ownership but how we take care when it comes to us and how we share that with everybody else
add some money not there are good but it's the lifetime of how we interact with each other and support each other in some people take on tape of so has everyone scrambling from selling it and even spreading it around
who now said that will be good
because it has nothing to do with equality in essence the qualities in our minds
if we practiced inequality in our mind it doesn't matter who left so much you will naturally act
going to benefit all of us

but
so we have the wisdom of inequality and the wisdom of differentiation
there has given the quality is horizontal were all saying ah exactly the same we have religion the buddha nature is an expression
is and each one of us is an expression of the same
later but yet we're all different that's the wisdom of differentiation
we recognize where we are and as related to each other that's the wisdom of relationship
and it both of those are necessary the horizontal and vertical and mommy beat on a scale is where we are
a horizontal and vertical be petrolia
so a horizontal is the foundation and vertical is an activity
st joe's minute bed
vertically i mean core family shaping said is lying down horizontally
and st joseph meeting the other said joe
very thick and the to me is the balance and activity in stillness
sat in an activity activity with his up stillness and songs with an activity in the balance that every moment is common practice