Study Period Practice/The Six Paramitas

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voting
last night
good lectured by it i'm guessing since a who is
joshua when joshua society emotions disciples
she's a german woman who is actually lived in america for quite a long time
and
maybe i think she's in their forties
no
who is very nice to have a teacher from another
student from another tradition prince our tradition
talk and also a woman who has some
status in the world and zim
i'm
an interesting to see how
she is completely accepted
her teacher in her practice
and ah
although it looks like
she is
adjusted to the mold of practice
ah it wasn't that difficulty and i
especially in a rinzai i practice
renzo practice is usually considered more
we use the word matchup
i don't like to say some that
little rougher my rough then sutter practice

where
the tradition is them
to be nuts or to be kind by being rough
ah
sodium tradition is more gentle actually
margaret way which
is more nurturing
side is more demanding
on the surface actually when you get below the surface they exactly the same
and we can to think about to different kinds of zen practice in terms of what we see on the surface or according to methods but if you get just just scratched the surface
it's exactly the same
that's why we could get along so well because she went just below the surface and found us they are just like that her and we weren't just below the surface and found here they are just like we are
so we're both swimming in the same lake
how bad our approach
ah rinzai and sometimes different
ah
the methods are in japanese or com ten g and toki tensions are on study with a master
where the teacher gives the student or koran and the student is interviewed over and over and the cohen
the master interviews to student over number on the on for years
until the student has some realization of the coin
ah the student understands what movie is understanding mou as move
and in simcoe ah practice
toki is
dealing with ah
the teacher deals with the student
according to the circumstances of the student's life
and
ha uses the various means of our daily lives as com
it's not some people think there's and then eyes in his coins in and soto's in is something else but actually a common is the basis of all practice
and i talked about this before some people remember it and some people don't
there are practices we have one corn and it's expressed in myriad ways there is only went on
even in
rinzai zen there's only one gone
but it's expressed in myriad ways
ah and are true khan is the cohen that we have always had
we it's not that someone gives you a gone
ah because you've already have a coin
you can discover what it is
this is very important
so ah the coins client study which was developed by hokku and zingy in japan
ah is the system that most rinzai zen teachers used not all not always but it's the basis for halloween revived the i
tradition after it had declined
and he was a very dynamic teacher
ah and
after what he did was to systematize to coins into a kind of teaching schedule
ah which made it very ah
made it possible to continue to teaching and make it very dynamic
ah
but you know kinds as our kitchen explained last night i originally ah
there were just meeting between the teacher in the and the student and sometimes the people would remember some very significant
occurrence that happened between teacher and student and he can hold it up as an example
and these examples became stories
and the stories were collected and putting into
the blueprint threatened became the book of records in the move on cotton and ah the various collections of stories which became coins
and
com means
literally a public case
it's if you're a lawyer
and you want to find out find president or the meaning of certain cases you go to the law books and you read the the public cases you read the coins
but ah
the case you're dealing with
even though it may have some president is unique
your client in here
situation and problem in a courtroom is all you need never happened before
so you may use a case a public case as an example ah for
as a way of educating yourself
but ah the case in your case is your real corn what you're doing is is the real com
is the problem that you have the problem that you always have no problem that you always will have
the basic problem of life and death mr cohen
and all of the stories are illustrate this so ah
in rinzai zen
you study the cohens i sometimes in very systematic wage and the cohen is given to you and you take except the con and if it's very short what is the sound of one hand clapping or move move is easily the first column by time sham
guessing as insensitive
sasaki roshi never gives me
he is
some student wanted move a and but he never gives me some of the students left

i bet in our tradition we use coins as illustrations and as she always use coins and lectures and ah it's wonderful to study the cases and to use them as to illustrate
but ah
and
so we should study the coins
as examples and that only exists examples of something that happened in the past if you're if you use if you study the coins is an example of something that happened at past the know it's like studying history
the cook the corn has to become your coin that's how we can use it to study with and that's why the teacher says gives you move the mood you're going and there's nothing else but move that's a wonderful way of study ah
but what is our cohen that we should never forget
what is the coin that we have to keep in front of us all the time and never forget if you don't have that you don't have practice
what is the cohen and his face is always changing that is a always remains the same
what is the come on a desktop never looks the same but it's always the same
that song again joe cohen
duggan's cause
suzuki roshi i mentioned that
don't get its teaching when he went he did for us ah
was to assimilate
the whole a buddhist practice and the whole current study
help the realm of coins ah and to give us a from a to distill it and to give us a very simple practice a very simple common practice
called again joke on
now the coin that arises moment after moment in our daily life you can't escape from it
something that you can't escape from
something it's always with you always present
so ah
the that i
not that that someone gives you are going
it's that someone can't give you a coin
but to help you discover it when your colonists
that's our the purpose of a teacher and and and student
the relationship between a teacher and student
teacher in our practice teacher
points out what your colonists you may not get you mean not understand it or you may forget it
are you may think that it never happened
are you may think she just gives me a lot of trouble why is he always giving me some as travel why is he always
down on me which is not so you know
until you discover you the colon which is your basic
ice problem
you always feel persecuted
not always been is possible to feel persecuted
ha
the in rinzai a coin practice ah during session you see the teacher four times a day
ah when you want to or not doesn't matter
when it's time you see him and if you can say something about your coin he said if not
ah maybe you don't say anything that you have to
presented you have to present yourself you can't escape so in a way you know it's a very i appreciate that it's a lot of work from teaching time
sometimes
sometimes you know to pie
the whole session four times a day for fifty people per one hundred people
ha
and he'll give
what if you look at times society russia's accession session schedule
they are printing there
catalogs
maybe ten sessions a year
eight or ten sessions here
it means that he's almost always it's a shame almost always
doing this

hum
the bedpan
our practices more
so
more open for ah
spacious
and may maybe that's good and maybe it's not have known ah
but
it certainly makes room for more people to practice and is more ah little more gentle but ah
when you actually engage practice it's the same
ha
you can see that it's it's not different
ha
sometimes when people say ah
soto practice is more puts more emphasis on zaza and been saying puts more emphasis on an action he was talking about action
characteristic of rinzai zen is
good action
strict ah participation just completely put yourself in your activity and but suitable our practices like that to and suzuki roshi always emphasized activity
ah and i never am
who is that a little sign of the alexander and said ah
cleaning first zones in second
do
first do it needs to be done since it doesn't
ha and it's very important you know if it and it goes hand in hand with ah
arranging your life so that you can practice
ah the problem that so many people houses
i'm wanting to practice but want to practice i
with that
ah

the getting all tangled up with other activities
ha
am
how to put your life in order is the first order practice
how to put your life in some kind of order then keep it there
so that you can actually do what you want to do
so that the most basic thing
is ah activity
activity means how you
ah
put your life together in order so that you can be one with your life
so that there's nothing no loosen know rag tango ah chipping over yourself
in order to do something

ha so the two sides of sitting and activity are what we com zazi
i don't like to say this isn't and this is activity the two sides are sitting in an engagement for activity in the world is suzie
so we always ask the question what is as if i always sq the christian who doesn't where do you understand and zazen
some was saying
when i was are you know the baby cries in middle of the night so i get up and walked the baby around the dining room table
and i'm so in the morning you know i i really find hard to get up and come design
where does says him
doesn't has to be walking the baby around the table
what's your coins blocking the baby around the table into your coin
what is as it is your going when you walk in the baby around the table what is as it is you're gone
or what is
what what
or is
here's this is good
what is this
where this is what
what this is what is
so we have our own coin
please find your own car
ha
but main cohen is ah
ha
ah how
that's what it is okay but what
kind of put the question what it can be very misleading
it means you know if you say what don't you may try to investigate something and scientifically
scientific investigation is okay but it's a little off the track
so how is ah better corn
how can i or how to do this or how is it
ha
how is this
corn
how is this practice
if ah
if the coin is something that's with you
our kitchens and say said last night coin is your friend a tenant it's like when you have a lover you're always thinking of the lover you know if you really when you fall in love there's nothing else but the heard you mind if you've ever done that in the texture
day or night you can't get an argument where coin is like that that's how we should if you don't have that is on than you don't have gone and if you don't have that his practice you don't have really practice
said
doesn't mean that you do some special activities
means
your special activity is whatever you're doing
whacking the baby around the table is very special activities
going to the bathroom sitting down the toilet very special activities how is this practice how is this ah
of course how is this helping all sentient beings
i also last night she was talking about ah someone asked a question about
hum
come
come practice simcoe how do you do that she said well like a carpenter if you're planing using a plane on a piece of wood
the person and the plane and a would even though it looks like three things are are wanting
the carpenter the plane in a word and the ground you're standing on and then courses that are holding the web and ah the building
the street the people were walking by
the neighborhood the city
the state the country
the continent the whole world the universe
this is how we are steady coyne how is how is this activity
the universe the activity of the universe
when you understand when you experience this activity is the activity of the whole universe then you understand your coin
the current just get a lead you to that point but anything is go on
everything you do is go on
every step you take
blowing your nose breathing so our coincidence in zazen from sitting up straight and breeding
if you can't breathe one is a coin one is not different than move
move is a rinse iv the move
more be one with more be move is everything
there's nothing but move
when you breathe one
two there's nothing but one or two
what are you have one two
there's no one practicing
there's just one to notice whatever
jim when you get up and move out into activity same thing
how is this know how is this one two three
how is this
the universe
acting
you don't have to sit about his other
i don't want to say so
boy
but the you know
i went to encourage rebates it as maximizing this possible
but
and the other side is if use practices is sincere that's the main thing that doesn't if your activity is concentrated like this
sincere akemi as corn
then it's it is as him
and then when you said it's not different
busy people
ha
some people are so busy that they don't have time to sit but and their opportunity is indoor activity
so we have our people who have an opportunity to sit
and some people who don't have aberdeen and visit but some people on this side sandy bryan the site
some people have lots of activity and little bit as as a little bit of city center you will have a lot of city and and magic activity
and then all the gradations in between
does in itself is not limited to sitting or activity
so each one of us practices according to our ah
understanding and circumstances
we all practice according to our circumstances
ah as long as we realized that doesn't and that sitting
is necessary presented
we'll set
we may come to some point wedding while it's not necessary because activities as in that's our
that's too extreme
it's just as extreme as someone who always sittings on him you know we don't sit zazen on time if you want to sit sizing too much actually we don't let you
the know is only open
ah between five and
six thirty in the morning
between five thirty five forty six twenty and evening
and are you don't come and sit and it's another time
you should be taken care of your our affairs daily affairs
we think was as in his room he kind of his endo and said i know what you think that no matter how much i tell you that it's not so he's still think that
i don't say everybody there are people here who really know how to practice
and ah
we should them
take their example follow their example there are people who do know how to practice they know have
that southern is activity and city

maybe have some question

have when questions she's talked about n
taking her corn and as you said taking it having it in her mind always like a lover and then getting up in the morning and before some other kinds of thoughts come in intrusive her distracting thoughts the car you know just some
an effort of will to bring in a coma in and keep it while getting ready brushing your teeth and washing your face and keep it in the xander and keep it all day long
yeah and i think it's really a wonderful way to go about it i wish that i could manage our particular call it a little better when i wonder about him is if you can if there's any year
the danger in that than the words if you have some problem some a interpersonal problems for example that you turn away from and just keep caught in a not i mean if you turn away from something that some responsibility at risk
sensibility something that perhaps you should think about that you
turn from where must have mostly ah when we get up in the morning the first colonists
turn off him
turner said it alone and and in second in his kit up
yeah and the and in product was so those three things and what you do first but he could turn off the one we do that
anyway you know that's easy to do because we're going to hear that
mrs music or something new i make a decision
and than to just get up in that's that's move
lewis just get up
no matter what else you know actually sometimes i live and been a few minutes and wake up and think
fix that it's not considered so good
but andrew swag you know i can get up and put on my clothes in i have lots of across the balloon
true and i washed my face and brush my teeth can offer incense garage door in nothing in two three minutes five minutes i can do around five minutes
so
ah sometimes i don't want to be to visit him to early
but actually the way to get up
is to just get out without a second thoughts when you have it when you have a second thought
and then he is still there
and then you have a third shot then you start thinking about that and pretty soon your way back in the third consciousness
reviewing you know anything well you know it's really nice and cozy here and it's can call it outside and then he said marina i did go to bed at ten thirty last night instead of nine thirty
i went and eleven right yeah i deserved it
i'm gonna be dragging all day long
i won't be alert
so
that if you wake up and move easier and easier them move in immediately you know you're into practice
but throwing back to cover is no
hey getting out a bit is move
putting on your clothes and just went out you know what to do just doing what you have to do without mulling it over without hesitating
ah there's a gotta the action that we have
that town we used to i never used it and situation ever asked us to use it but we had this little booklet of gutters and there was a gotta for when you get up in the morning and got to for when you're going to bed at night and when you wash your face subway
how to get us out
you can make at us but the worm and getting up well as ah now i awake now i'm awake
and i vowed
with i'm trying to remember i mean i remember exerting with are sentient beings
two
seek enlightenment or stay within the enlightened mind without leaving the world
it's that
to practice within enlightenment without leaving the world

so that's that
now that attitude start your day
hum
i don't never let the one is for going to bed pronounced now take her out in written negligence
his answer your question
of the experiment refreshing
this is very interesting
it
the that too
yeah to carry within the same way see wake up and as
you may be are sick and let you don't think about that if we don't this is a kind of artificial example but something like that you sick but you get up and don't take care of yourself and it may be that that's what you should do
maybe shit area is understood well you'll find it out
so it depends you know if you know your said then she'd stay there them to them if you don't know then you have to find out and you have to know where the line is you know
are you in the same way that's i learned through this online stay in bed nets over the line get up and find out sir
where am i
he ran away
problem
better
sometimes
and this
you know in the monastery in japan tom
if you're at they make it very difficult for you to be sick
because it's so easy to tell her something we're sick
you know and tell herself in such a way that would become sick
it's very easy to make ourselves sick
i we yet to come and we can also produce all the symptoms of being same without being sick and when you're in a situation you know like
zen practice when get up every morning and he can kind of old you know and he want you don't want to that you want to break them change in any one and so it's very easy to to ah convince ourselves that there's some that we have some problem
because the problem is
psychological but
that's not acceptable so we have to make a psychological problem physical said that people will sympathize with us
it's more real you know it's tangible when it's physical sewing transmuted into a physical brown
and i that's always happening you know
where'd be very careful
not to do that
know to me see what we're doing and when if when the alarm goes off we get up and start going or how we're feeling usually would feel better almost always we feel better if we don't
then we are a gimmick accept the fact that this something wrong
and we usually something happened something goes wrong because we've accepted it and made space for it and become host for something
so if when we we can decide to be second autistic
how does they always
but there are times when we can decide to be second episode
whether to be a host or to close the gate and our activity itself will cure us it's like i don't like to compare people to animals so much by the way and and to have a lot of fun
there aren't ya good analogies
the i remember when my dogs and atlanta experience with drugs
in terms when the dog was noted when dog's nose is warm and dry means that they're sick their noses cold and running it means a day well so a healthy diet as a cold runny nose in a sick dog is a warm dry nose so in the dog's nose
is dry and warm take the dog for a walk around the box and activity in actually day the whole system gets moving and by tentative back the nose is called and money
and so much of our life is are united our attitude toward sickness and health is depends i know
editor
but you know that's not to love this is just need
the art
pointing and pointing at attitude it's not saying that if that you never get sicker
but
most ah
healthy people are active people
i'd like to connect the home park weren't for pretend last question he said he asked about the danger of train like from interpersonal problems and the analogy with the lover is an interesting because i'm on there's the leveraging are jealous and
i'm often and practice is a jealous lover and crashes on demands for concentration and attention and it's it seems in a traditional practice we can if we have the opportunity to pray
practice
we can learn to make our activity amazon
hum together if we work at
meteor activity you said an area your activity and you're sitting were met on and we learnt along with people they can their eyes there's always some intimate relationship on many eyes were their parents will notice that somehow we're not really there with them there's some we have some private
space that
it makes the money and sometimes on he knows somebody else somebody else the elaborate who is has an intimate relationship with you and it seems like that's the practice comes from a place where you don't you have that kind of relationship and as and layman
ah it almost seems to me some had like retaining practice place it wasn't meant to up
and yet we say that practice should be anyone well
ah i understand your point insisted pan
we don't know how to make it go there
and i wouldn't say that it i can understand you know
when you know
in one sense you conform to things as they are
any the other way things can form to you as you are
and ah so
the the form that it takes you know is you flow with things and things for with you but the probably get into is either they flow with either you flow of things are things will fly with me
it's an needed week we met anyone either or situation
and we don't know how to harmonize so well
that you fly with things and things were with you so when you're with your parents you feel either they with me or if i were them
and partly they said in a family you know