Something To Die For: That's What Makes People Believe In Something

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good morning
ah look at our practice period class we've been studying a master though give ten the of your kuhn ah
the again
admonitions for the head cook you don't they come
in the monastery
the ten though
as the manager of
kitchen
the kitchen of course where many people who work is a microcosm of the world
just like the zendo here is a microcosm of the world
and any ah
an organ an organized activity that we do is also a guy of the worm phil how we
operate in the world in in the kitchen
applies to how we operate in the world
follow the elements are there
just like all the elements of the universe
right here each one of us is in microcosm of the universe to if you want to study the universe
studies itself
i'm someone said tom
it's not necessary
two people at the sky with a little tube it's okay
but
if you really want to understand yourself
the universe study though
and then people the universe
when we when when we can like over subset of enough can we really then we can look at people the universe and see where the center is the true center
the true center of the unit a whole universe is right here
that's my opinion
so duggan's kenzo kyoko and he
give all the suggestions about
how to order your space
and how to
create an environment
a harmonious environment with people carrying
big batch of soup and knives and and dangerous implements
and how you realize how you working together with many people in a small space
i am making some effort to
use the time
and i'd be used by the time
so the kinfolk kyoko is one of a
one physical of
the n
ah
don't give a single and shinji is a collection of duggan's guns ammunition for all the officers in the monastery the director besides the
aside from the denzel
the director the the the work leader
the vm
oh
the head of the various department heads of various departments so he
talks about
various teachers who have been the heads of these departments and their virtuous practice
hum and so i'm going to a fan
give give you some stories these virtuous teachers and their practice
as examples of how to practice
the head gardener is one
that's great story
and packaged ah
you know in the olden days
the back in china the monasteries head mills the mill was set a little bit outside of the
a
compound
and because
the other
the mill was
a little bit isolated
the
person who was running the middle had to be a with a hopefully a advanced student
someone who had
at some degree of enlightenment
so
this story is about to head of the mill
on the an
zen master file you on
about russo and kii province studied with priest high sy shoe dan
actually dan was really on the abbot and mount hukou on
he inquired about the great matter and deeply penetrated bone and marrow
bone and marrow that's
the essence of them it's in your bones and marrow
so shoot on appointed him to be the chief miller
every year five on collected money by selling rice and wheat bran and earned interest by lending the money wow
that's questionable but
a reader you can raise questions about that but you have to realize
in india the month supported themselves simply by begging
but when in china although they didn't do that
it wasn't really enough to support a monastery they didn't collect a noticeable a monastery should they have different also you know from a the weather in china very different than in india
and when the weather's different the practice is different
so they had to support a monastery and so this is one way that they did that
so shoot on appointed him to be the chief miller every year for you on collected money by selling rice and wheat bran and or interest by lending the money he hired workers with his money to the temple improvements and put the rest in a temple treasury
but one day someone made an accusation about him to shoot on
every day for you on drinks wine
eat meat and entertains farmers' wives and young women at the mill
so the entire temple was turn up
hairiness fight on purposely but meat and wine and hung them on all
of the mill
he bought cosmetic powder and gave him to the farmers' lives and young women
and ask them to paint their faces when the month came to the mill for i want took the young women's hands teaching them and laughing without any sign of shyness
shoot on one day called him to the average room and asked him why he was doing it for you one said nothing but yes yes
shoot on slapped his face but on did not flinch he bowed and started to leave shula and yelled at him that get out quit for you i said i need to settle my account and find someone to take over my position
later for your and told you done i paid for the wine and me that to thank you the mill and put three hundred plus one thousand thin of money in the temple treasury
shoot i was greatly surprised and realized that the accusations came from the jealousy of petty minds
so there was no excuses he didn't make it if he didn't say no i didn't do it or make any excuses he just went along with the story
that led the dharma
ah ah ah
take care of it
this is great dressed in dharma
well as shoot and community center master yuan tongue for as you as you so he accepted an offer to be abit of about simeon so he asked for you won't be the shoe so at his new place
so the mill or million cottage takes care of pounding race grinding flour it is located five or six cho from the temple building the miller takes care of it by himself this was five months position in the past people with the way mind
we're seeking mind fill disposition and also those who are unsuited fill this position but nowadays it is hard to find those who have the way mind so for the time being people who have some capacity or used sometimes there are such people and sometimes there is not the world is becoming more
low crude and course what a pity
so this is hundreds of years ago
oh know
a babylonian cuneiform that's language stone
i was discovered
from thousands of years ago and said the young people of today
so nothing's really changed
fundamentally
some or flash percent
peace is just an interval between a continuous war
which is really so
just a blip
so when we observe of butterfly you weren't practice there's nothing they can compare with it either in the past and present it is like the colors of peach and plum the purity of pine and cypress winter wind does not break
get frost and snow does not impinge on it we can see how diligent study the way was we can see how love to his sincerity was those who come later should not give up their determination for the practice of the way should not back off even if faced with this kind of misfortune
violence practice was extraordinary you should take a look at this and tried to make an effort in this direction the depths of the old way my into teachers can be realized through this kind of determination tomorrow we observe the higher and more solid we know it is and this is what we should yearned for this
kind of practice is a
genuine and sincere
and our practice is always tested
when you can face this kind of difficulty and continue
it increases your sincerity and determination if you're and brings out your spirit a great spirit to do that that's what our practice is all about basically
i'm
give another one another
story which i am going to present
which makes this man look like nothing
people have a lot trouble with his story
some people that everyone but just gives rise to
a lot of people's ah
emotions
this is an example
now wait a minute

i have preached suzanne
the was stern cool and aloof old teacher
there's this guy who are just as a small
vendo
but he's very highly respected
i said but he was very extern cool and aloof
ah but he was highly respected by the month
a group of monks including zen master value on of not fool in hubei province and zen master yi who i not ah tian yi in uva province came to practice in his community so
it is as they were both zen masters but they were zen masters later their life
they were students at this time
it was a cold and snowy day when they met mr shoes the on he yelled and draw them away
it will not only that he poured water now this is the middle of a winter he poured water around the visiting monk fall so that everybody's close got wet
all the visiting monks fled except for you on and z why he's to diamond brothers
are you on and zy arrange their robes and set tongariro in the hall or yo is a period it can be three days or five days or seven days depending on
the leadership and you just sit there
you sit all day
go to the bathroom they bring you some food the in him
you just sit we have a
at horror we have five days together yo which is the entrance exam to the monastery
the entrance exam is you to sit there all day every day after day
ah you go to the bathroom
everybody else comes in the zendo well it depends on whether where the
oreo is sometimes it's just off by itself but costanza her to the vendor so people come in at the monks come in and sit and and embellishing each other and then they have service in the money or better service to the emperor
with the remainder breakfast and then everybody else lives except accepted to garrido students stay so it is stay there by days everybody's going to touch the has done this believe it or not
then there's no way to prepare for it
it's just like people come to seen here for the first time they see how can i prepare myself for she and i say don't prepare anything just step into it without any idea about what it is and just play
taylor moment by moment you living your life when moment the time
which is how you should be doing it
we should always live among our life one moment at a time thoroughly
so when they met matter if he did all this stuff and so and
a firewall and zy arrange their robes and set together you in the hall
shaheen came in and on a scolding voice said if you do much don't leave our hit you
fly one approached the master and said the two of us came hundreds of miles to steady your then
how can a dipper full of water drive us away
even if we get beaten to death we will not leave
you laugh but that's the essence of them
if you're going to
if you're going to studies in you have to have that attitude
you can study it even if you don't have that attitude but if you want to make to it
i'm
to find the essence you have to have that attitude
i don't care if i die
even if we get beaten to death will not leave
so shows the and laughed and said you both need to start in go hang up your bags
so later he has you want to serve as the tensile
at that time he assembly with suffering his aloof style and appetizing food
when they shut the and went out to the nearby village and while he was away fly one took the key to the storehouse without permission
and took some noodles in some oil and made a delicious breakfast for the students
a community
shazam i returned and sat outside the zendo
and so shows the i returned early and without saying anything joined in the zendo meal
he does her down anything antonio
after breakfast was over he sat outside zendo and center the tempo
shazia unsaid
did you really take a look at oil from the storeroom and cooked meal for the community is doing simply wonderful right but it's also transgression
then fly once said yes i did please punish me
shazier and told him
to estimate the price of the material and compensate the community by selling his robes and bowl
then he gave him thirty blows and kicked him out of the monastery
file on stayed in a nearby city
the at had actually looked at the temples they had a small temple shelter outside in town
for guess
and asked his my brother to plead with a master to pardon him but shenzhen would not forgive him fly one also pleaded even if i'm not admitted to return i would like to request to be line to enter the rabbits are the a bathroom black for docusign or for lecture
but yeah i did not approve it one day shazia went to the city and sof are you on standing in front of a traveler's shelter shazia and said to him this shelter belonged to the monastery how long have you been living here
have you paid your fees
fees he asked if i you to calculators fees and asked him to pay for you and was not disturbed
he carried his bold in the city collecting food which he sold and then made his payment to the monastery
later shazia went to the city and software you aren't begging he returned to the monastery and told the assembly that for you aren't had a true intention to study them and finally called him back
in particular the heart of the ten vo
you on needs to be studied this should be considered as something encourage and something encouraged i'm sorry and something encountered once in a thousand years you don't hear this very often time three neither wise nor the unsuited can come up to him nowhere
can come up to him however if those who attend the now do not have the aspiration of fight one how can they arrived with the inner chamber of booed ancestors
the tenth those mentioned above are all dragons and elephants
the buddha ocean extraordinary people is the ancestral realm when we look for such people nowadays it is not possible to find them anywhere
the duncans a rant but
some people really don't like his story
they think it's too hard and yes is it is too hard
ah his teachers be really too hard on him
but he's so grateful and you will see it well let's just perversion he likes punishment
no doesn't like punishment
you can't even we can psychology guys his mind you know we can do that
but actually is beyond that
hmm

ah

i think it that students who stayed with suzuki roshi
and am
ah
know when we were everywhere when i was practicing them
back in the sixties
nobody could nobody was very good at it
and so there is room for the people with their silent drama is going on
during machine and tell them
ah
and
you don't have to have or this kind of this particular thrill set of circumstances everyone has their own second set of circumstances
ah
but everyone was making this great effort probably is great effort to
to stay in our position
ah and we
had the feeling that he
i am
ah we can knit nothing could overturn us this is some figure she's teaching don't let anything don't become a victim of yourself
nothing can overturn you
no matter how difficult
your whatever difficulties you face you don't let it overturn you
springs out event spirit
then
wisdom comes forth
because there's no hindrance
the people to his kind of thing either you know all those people that like up mount everest
have something like as in mind
so
ah
practicing with the trials everyone is given a set of trials
ah in their life
and to be able to
except the trials
zip like fae one is accepting that the the trial that his
put himself in a position to it to deal with and the teacher is focus

exercising the same responsibility
the teacher has his responsibility according to who he is
flight one is accepting the responsibility called to here he is
he doesn't hate the teacher there's no resentment
he doesn't feel as if he's being
put upon is just as simply my my karma
which i totally accept because what i feel i have to do and the teacher the same thing

special
i am
we have to teach it yes the teachers saw the potential
that's why it was a good teacher he saw the potential employee fly one
and he was no he not really angry at violent
he ah
i'm very strict
ah sometimes people that are you know like you hear the stories of the piano teacher
then ended that the student makes a mistake in the pl teacher has ever won the goes on his knuckles raped ah i don't think it's the same thing
but
damn
if you
this is a very extreme very extreme situation
you don't need this this extreme situation to practice am sorry i don't want to discourage you
because of the story
but isn't extreme example
all examples and at this extreme
but if you really look at it
there is simply
like that you know a flag
i invented this little story about
we go to a party and were sitting in our chairs and then the a party leader of party comes from gives everyone a little package for the present
and we open our present and there's a little fortune cookie in a the
are you open the cookie and is and it says this is your
this is your born in the situation and these are the circumstances of this situation and deal with it how you deal with it
you can change
but it doesn't change them the essence of the circumstances
we keep changing partners
but we wind up with the same problems because of you
so how do you deal wish
the situation that your hand it without trying to escape
because even though you think you're escaping
he just creating more problems and beverage distributors and thing
the problems you have now
a good problems
you may want to change
and solve your problem
but you'd be careful because after you do that you the problems you're the next problem we go will receive he wished you had the problem you have
yes
yes that isn't that right
he also said
you'd give him just the right amount of problems for you
peter
stories
practice
you are going
yes
example of someone
yes
yes
i think you read the story correctly
that's how you deal with the practiced with the problem gets handed you
so that's our practice how do you deal with whatever is handed to you how do you deal with whatever situation you encounter

well you know
ah sanga we have to buddha the dharma and the saga
the buddha's is our essence
what each one that was a day
ah
a manifestation of buddha
so would we have the innate wisdom to deal with whatever comes along
and that's what brings out our buddha-nature
the subtler dharma is our wisdom
the dharma is
ah
oh
our act are are
the dharma is are some bolkiah our wisdom body
and ah
sankar
if
i'm
the there's the narrow saga which is the people that we associate with then there's the wider sancho which includes everybody and everything so our practice
the allows us to realize
that our practice is not for ourself
we do not practice for us people do that
and when we beat when we start to practice with with self involved you know what we really are
who is who's the best person the world well have crusher to me
so it was hercules
of in love but as we as as practice with others
i'm develops we realize we're not just practicing for i felt were practicing for the whole for everyone around us and with everyone around us
so that helps us to let go of our ego
if we only practicing for herself by ourself
you have to be very advanced to person to do that
otherwise you're simply creating more eager more self-centeredness
so purpose of practicing with saga to be supported by everyone
because this is a difficult practice life itself is a difficult practice
so we practice with like minded people which encourages some practice and we encourage others
the reason i come every day to freezer then is not for myself fortunately but just to show up for everybody i don't say that i helped them i it's hard to help people but i simply show up for everybody
two it encouraged everybody to practice that's the only reason like i do that
the only reason but if my main reason for are coming
when i'm by myself i don't see serve him
they went when you're on vacation to use itself in know i just take a vacation
sometimes i'll said yeah
but i just i'm sitting all the time even if
you know i'm not my legs and aircraft i'm sitting there when i go to the grocery store and when i'm driving my car when i'm talking to people
so what i'm doing docusign so how come you never get a chance to set the agenda because you are doing dog isn't i'm doing dog as i'm sitting zazen what i'm doing dog of them
when i'm interacting with people when i'm cooking in the zendo i'm doing surgeon
and so you share your enlightenment with everybody otherwise what am i have i'm just doing this for myself doesn't work selfish activity
not about doing something for yourself
when you do something for others you doing something for yourself
of course you're doing something for yourself
but the more you do something for others the more you do something for yourself
so because the more you forget yourself to why you're doing something for yourself
but yourself is not just this single person you realize that everyone is part of yourself everything you're doing is an ad or
activity
then includes yourself and others so saga gets the most important part
because the most important thing is to let go of your ego
supply line has no a shows and is exemplary for letting go of his ego
there's no ego there he just as tell me i did this i didn't do a wonderful thing i just this the because i that and but it would enjoy it right gave him a great meal and we all enjoyed it and i'm willing to take the consequences
you're willing to take the consequences you can do a lot of things
but you have to be careful because you will receive consequences for what for you to
really as consequential sequence you can see crenshaw
so just be careful what you do
we have great respect for karma
because when you do this to get that
so anyway
if don't you feel good in a coming in and join the saga that even like pp the i can people
i don't practice of people i like or don't like i just packed with people go there is so to pick out favorite people and people you like into i just practice with everybody the way they are
that's it and i enjoy it
no i enjoy practicing people i don't like
when people i don't have an affinity with more whatever
but ah that's the best practice actual history and is it best bet in a challenging so challenging is is really good
meeting challenges is really good
not running away from challenges although sometimes we have to do that nothing's fixed everything we say has another side right
but ah still

ah
if you want to have a better world we have to go do something
and you can make a better world by secluding yourself
even though they will not be a better world
we have to pretend that there is that they can be
so even though
it's a haiku and at the end of his commentary on the hook am i said foolish wise man filling the well with snow
foolish wise man and i liked that one foolish was men and women
feeling well as just doing it work
because you you believe in what you're doing but even though you know there's no result
the result will help you do or what you but l the other hand is fulfilling
so fulfilling fulfillment doesn't mean that
viele the result of what you do will be one will be perfect fulfilling means just doing the work because that's what fulfilling your work for peace tell them be peace
lasting peace but don't be lasting peace in you
the world will always be war but a lasting peace in you if you understand
what peace really is
try one found his peace within his difficulty
peace you can only find peace within the difficulty you can't find peace without difficulty
because piece is the opposite of difficulty
right psx have said war
but tell always be or so how do you find peace within the war that's called enlightening activity

so view light up your own
ah
portion of the world
and find peace within yourself
by realizing that there will never be lasting peace that's the only way you will find peace
because country reconciling the opposite
without reconciling up as a sizzler peace

so
a lot of good stories in there
but this is very extreme ones
and the extreme story is good
because they challenge
i'm are a half peaceful mind
i'm so i'm happy to asked to you know it's late but if you have a question
okay

okay
okay
oh yes

right
ah
oh

but he was just just just somebody else in the world
he was actually isolated from his saga
that's
yeah he was isolate that which is punishment
to be isolated from the saga
yes people supported yes
yeah but yes but at the same time
yeah he was ah
eh
his position was taken away
and he was not allowed to to associate with the saga
that that that with big
deprivation
yes
so
i'm

the essence of practice is to be find is to create harmony in the saga
that's that's the purpose of practice in that sense
he'll to find harmony within the saga
and ah

an order to find harmony in the saga you have to find harmony within yourself
so
and without having the sanga
it does no way to express it

two am
ah bring out
the vital spirit of students
yeah in
but our depriving them
it that's this is where austerity yes not too much food not such good food you know this buddhist practice basically it's just basic buddhist practice but with an iron hand but he also was compassionate this she's great camp
passion
we tend to think of compassion is being nice know let's not compare that it did as a kind of compassion true compassion in being strict
sometimes
he also gave him thirty blows that was compassion to but you don't think of it that way
so sometimes you know
everything has its opposite and sometimes when you do something the opposite of what you think is should it should be it's actually compassionate for this site

anyway
life's tough
but it's also sweet