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you know
mr duggan's teaching
there are two aspects and see on most of you know there's the literary aspect
because chabot kenzo one hundred or so seventy five hundred and festivals and than deep thought
the hence the underside is the shinji
shinji is the practical aspect
how we actually apply ginger go on to our lives
how we actually apply g do you zum i to our lives and how we play she contessa to our lives how we breathed as are true meaning of these as
and this sense
i want a cousin ideas but
as
i guess
to them
fruition in our activities
ah
so she me
hey shoot you
with a collection of these practical
the teachings of dogan detica the sinking a was is
and
how do we understand the media jason
as
ah practical
the practice of our everyday life basically
so them
ah
most and
popular use that term
am
farcical
the a shitty his car and the tinsel kyoko the teaching a pound of be a tensor which means how to run a kitchen
and a curse
how to run a kitchen means how to how to behave yourself
how did we run ourselves
how do we keep herself from running amok
and i'm making our own activity beneficial have some meaning in i like physically how to harmonize i'm like with our surroundings and with the sun get you in order to make life meaningful
ah
zazen of course is the most practical way to to realize the meaning of life
which can't exactly be explained
but it can be practiced
and we can understand it through our activity

sometimes com sometimes out kyoko in his car and how to cook our life
a member suzuki roshi
during seasons sometimes would say you are all like loves the
bread baking in the oven and soon you'll be finished something like that
hopefully you will get done
oh
so less the difference between shall look into an ac so people know who are not necessarily soto zen buddhists
and get much from there
schumer kills them because it's a great literary work
and but for practical purposes sort of the our practice
she is actually the most important
cassini is called practice
what you do not just what you think
i'm so
and don't even start out in a hitch in a tense up yoakam
he says from ancient times in communities practicing the buddha away
can have been six officers established to oversee the affairs of the community
the marks or students iphone own holding each office or all disciples in the buddha and all carry out the activities of a buddha through the student to their respective offices
among these officers is the tensor of who carries the responsibility of preparing a communities meals
so he used the of as the example in fascicle he also mentioned after the n
each one of the officers
but that's those are different festivals what each one actually does and what the attitude of beach officer
sharon i people don't like our should be
so
i'm
when i started the zendo
i'm a security didn't tell me what to do he just said do something
and so i just pasted on our monastic practice which will just beginning at that time
and
and and as time progressed in and we nineteen seventy with the first time that
well with when touching you know she came to
does a higher he was invited himself you know at aig or ten years or something and wonderful chanting bush and and he taught us how to do a monastic practice or she didn't really do that but thats gonna do
and each letter or other organize a monastic practice it does her
and i used that as a kind of quays a model for our practice here
and
so the way our practice and works is that we have these various positions and the positions rotate in every at each a person each a position is a position from which we view and harmonize with the community
so that's where rotation is important because we get to see the community or a harmonized with the community from a different point of view a different place a practice
so it makes it a little complex but complexity is okay his likes it simple
so the sixth the with mr call this the rocker gg local mean six six positions of the officers who
have the basic positions in the basic positions we have those actually we call that we have used the japanese terms in those days that says the kind of the first the inner potential and
she's sweet and chica that seven actually
so that this is the director
now that we don't add any said i wouldn't call it director i recall coordinator because director has the feeling of ordering people around
i didn't like that as a the the coordinator is the person that harmonizes the community
so rather than ordering people around i had the idea that i'm creating harmony is what that person death that's their position is to make sure that every earlier of the positions are working together everybody's working together to create harmony
the position
the the director or co ordinator
and then we don't have the console anymore the can show and in indonesia time
was the person actually manage the affairs of a community
in various ways and had a big position
but i remember tessa we we didn't have a concert who was the assistant director
and
a one time the assistant director just wasn't showing up
and then
there was something kind of hell back are lazier and uncommunicative or something and to the monastery was working pretty well anyway

so one day i lifted his eyes and i can see if been smoking but i can tell when somebody's been smoking ban usual so they can tell by their eyes
and
can you know can play him
estimate the of the fact you said yes can we decided to eliminate the position
could and was meaningless he wasn't really doing anything so
the other people can you know i once knew a lady who
shipped
sherry all day long and but she still work you an entity really effector it probably did affect you
but she's quite comforting but nevertheless i don't want to make an argument about
any that
the their own i did so anyway my experience is that really doesn't work very well not in the not in the buddhist context got an a monastic context where everybody else or sober and your that
so
then there's the with the treasurer treasure is a big position to you know takes care of xander the tensor who takes care of the cooking and the she saw it was we call the work a bit oh she could be the builder
and the seeker who takes care of outside affairs
so what do you have a monastic community it's a little city to towns all by itself and needs of the direction of a larger town actually and they were really small scale
in order to make everything work because it's them usually the monastic communities isolated and needs to relate to the outside world and without get you being hermetic lee field
so these are the the officers who
rotate your positions rotate and we get to experience
how things work from left from that position in this is called collar education
shall we training is got training so whether we happen to be praised for laypeople as in our practices not that relevant
deceptive
it hasn't a special meaning for a priest because it's a priest education but it's also everybody education
oh so
so bergen says it is written in china yuan qi way to way g way she with that the function of the tensor was to manage meals for the community
the january eighteen way was a text written by charles xavier de show member his name charles xavier
enough in the twelfth century in china he he
took over the accumulated knowledge of zen monasteries and
put them on a tour of text which and always refers to
the first one which by chicago back in tang dynasty
the he created the
rules for a monastic community of zen community in and anything short of syria later but that was lost in short of that later put something together now
baroness
i understand you can it a kind of communities
so he says that work has always been carried out by teachers set in away and by others who have an aroused the bodhisattva spirit within themselves
such a practice requires exhausting all your energies if a person entrusted with his word black such as spirit they will only endure unnecessary hardships and suffering that will have no value in pursuit of the way
so this it interesting important
ah
you know that the head monasteries in japan like mohanji so gg the ten zozo is an experienced practitioner are usually a roshi
who has the position of potential because the position of the working in the kitchen is not just to get the bielsa it's the the most important training place for
that's why the person in charge
should not be a novice and should have experience deep and some
morecambe of and realization so that
through their own activity they create harmony and a kitchen
which
creates

meals wonderful food which is then
offered to students
so
you know in an harmonious kitchen the food is usually a good
in a harmonious kitchen the photos to really get because it's that is not the food is not to the food is there is the spirit of were eating without realizing necessarily that's what a ditch
hum
so he says such a practice requires exhausting all your energies i don't know exhausting so my work but
we don't be
the in some sense visitor
but it means being fully present basically exhausting means live leaving behind resistance
the resistance just plunging in and doing using all of your energies that that's what existing it is using yourself up completely when you use yourself up completely it generates energy when you use his or her path completely
then you feel attire
when totally fully present engaging without any resistance
you create energy because energies induced through vigorous activity
so when you
use up
completely engage
you may get tired but it's a good tiredness it's not
like i have used up all my energy is no such thing
the only way you can use yourself up
and if you like you haven't been more is if you're only using half your energy the if we're using all your energy your indifference like an open
an open heart and energy just keeps rushing through
and then yes i'm tired the and a ticket time and go to sleep and help reduce your energy
they say it struggled
the if strong by using yourself up
so such a practice requires a ghastly all your energies
and if a person entrusted with this or laksa just spirit to m he will only hinder unnecessary hardships that's right
because you feel like you're just working you don't feel like you're practicing
i have to do this i have to do that they want me to do this thirty one of the that's just hardship
but if it's in the spirit of practice
is joy
so well them may
if one of the main indicators of whether or not as practice is whether or not is joy
it was not joy tennis net practice
it should be
but carry yourself in this way
she isn't
in this joy jaipur is no matter how it's going may be difficult however struggle
and joy is one of the main factors
the dog and talk to them in the three minds of the tensor
what is a big mind you should practice when big my which means letting go of our pretty small line and simply letting big line rule the kingdom
and joyful mind which when we do that when there is no no sensor
the ego domination than join actually rises and parental nine parental nine means taking care of everyone as parrot
am
krista difficult it's appearance since with them
the remains with benevolence arnhem magnanimous mind
oh so am
then he says
he read person in genuine jim gray again it also says put your awakened mind to work making a conscious effort to serve meals full of variety the appropriate to the need any occasion
and that will enable everyone to practice with their bodies and minds with at least hindrance
so let's put your awakened mind to work may awaken my brings to mind it's
big mind basically put your been mind to work not your petty man and make a constant effort to save me as well right now this full variety can have several meanings and misunderstandings
oh no sufficient use
i'm not not get too wound up in choosing the very best are so special counsel through
and
it's a problem sometimes when
people are cooks
and
i got we've learned through the best we can tour
that's where the saga
but we get into why didn't to are most fancy wonderful meal to prove everybody
which is a great intention but sometimes it's misguided because it takes too long to cook and if that body's rushing around trying and
it kind of excites are great for something wonderful
one a good way of thinking about
i'm serving food to the community
especially in this situation
and to have a number of menus that really work
satisfy everybody and not to
it's not boring too boring pets and it's not too excited
and you can be served over and over again and is satisfying so finding that those particular that doesn't mean you can't introduce something you know because the tanzer glisten in a do something special
the sixth tests
live six tests
bitter sour sweet salty mile and ha
sarah
i think what often happens in present day cooking fat is that we want to cover the taste of something with something else in presenting a shoo-in you're to make it bitter or sour and then you simply guess you know so that's just a gentle
and ten point is to see each dish so what it really at each ingredient for what it really is and abrir the quality of that ingredients rather than covering it up with something else sometimes as little better
i'm adding a bit of another
strong gangsters and will enhance that but if it gets too overpowering you can't tell who isn't this text over their case and she kind of ambiguity i think some people like ambiguity in true
my chest x is like a little kid i just like the play game
you know how kids are they don't like sure it's mixed only like complaints
i'm i get but i will go for mix for his money is well balanced so to guess how do you balance it tastes and flavors so that you're not covering one play for with another
sometimes a mixture like that will make a third place
but that has to be pretty good to meet up
ai this is my understanding main thing is to bring out the quality of the dish of of each ingredient show that is not covered by something else because then it feels like why are you covering their you know don't i teach them
voice coming out of your
i can you can remain here
does she buried me
go down through the ages
many great teachers and insisted such as glacier you will and japanese of disarm
donncha shoot you which is not direction mk who enough show up at a different
gumption to a because it does have served as it is kinda
his son and the m
and don't show and supper and zappos used to go to learn monastery to either with his big serving spoon is pics
purpose
is a was to tip to externalize you know if you go to with chinese chinese monastery they have this huge cauldron which is the rice cotton
less than a dish the rash cobra
and so on a good cook of russia to make race cause that's just like a good baker and american in the west should make bread a good cook in china fell to make rice if you go to japan you got it is market
a big market has been to have varieties of rice that that one i have another you mind boggling
it's a lot the people think that much of that rice
some and one thing about
i'm ya polls
we have three variables the priest karaoke has five
and those if the the other two children a bunch of for condiments and even though we don't use him here you said have put him in the bowl to make the bulls complete
but we used three calls me the first polls but for the rice
the cadets to destiny dish and the others are as are complementary to the race but the over whatever green it is just a rainbow that's come good his head that they bought her buddhism that's the oreo cookies
and the other people's arms
what kind is like soup or salad in our case usually
vegetables and one kind of love it
so
because the the main dish is the rice you have just a little of the others
so you take sure i should eat it and then you'd go to the second ball in each other that then you go back to the rice bowl and need some of that and then you go to the third both each a minute then you go back to the riseborough so in between each of the others you erase
i know one jan ever who i like very much he is the window that each the the thing
difficult but
how do you know when to serve seconds
so
he needs mm pistol in unison as an illegal back in any turtle can we do that twice it's time to shave seconds
that's right you know how i love them
sometimes the tenth of the person has a copy of us and
to take charge of them
and when that happens is therefore real fast and then the as the the december to come
powers according to their speed limit and everybody scrambling is finished show
ah
can i say something that
i figured out there
well visions of fire when so the head server comes and whispers to the courtyard just
no
and and they was that that doesn't mean it is time for seconds precious information
but sometimes the tokyo things less now it's time for seconds because it the health charity that whispered to me that limited seconds as than just information you should not use that as an indication that is ten per second
any rate very satisfying to eat that way a highly recommend try next
school so then he says when i in china so logan went to china dishes where he learned about this actually he talks about it later on but the own
don't get way to change with goes in and
he learned from a couple of denver's actually or practices and and he talked about therapy that as most of you know
ah and the tradition and is what i was in china and talked to my spare time of many older monks who had years of experience working in the various offices they taught me a little and what they had learned in their work
when they had to say about what they had to say must surely be the narrow the marrow of what has been handed down through the ages by previous buddhists in ancestors settled in the way
ah
a pajama touch about this in his commentary that to live out your life in the most settled way is called practice
have to be so much sugar as she used to document being settled in practice
career to say settle this is you shop and michelle said of shows no settling settling into practice is important is that there's always something that rusty as to keep moving you know so subtly in practice doesn't mean it
there's no movement
but to harmonize
our movement with
tatiana
there's a practice called practice and recollections which means keep coming back to as f is to to settling in the in the package and i'm thinking they were remembering because
oz us
remembering
our body is composed of members and so to remember is to bring back all the members and harmonize in harmonizing
the members and the same goes for working in the kitchen the members can easily get distracted then you bring up the mountains back to working together and harmonizing so bring your other members means remembering
we dare join a buddy gets out of joint and and we have to remember regular hack into harmony
and when we don't bring our body back into harmony the we have problems with
so we should thoroughly studied a genuine chimney it concerning the overall work intensive and moreover listen closely to what those who didn't have to those were to a does well done this work have to tell us regarding the details
and so went again talks about
he's gonna talk about the years with than know meal because the and is a tradition of buddhism's per much not only a one meal a day the numbers show they were go out in the mornings and when you read the sutures
buddha went out in the morning as a movement and the money to pay for their own there was it was much
cause the eat depending on the air this post to eat before noon let us hear it or not comes here and gives a talk we have to feel the black pepper know
ah so that's when the hell and the cock is very different know things were different in turkish time
i shouldn't have to get to work the tenth of covering a period of one can plead day
and he started a new leader
after the noon meal the tensor she go to the tissue and the cartoon to get the rice vegetables and the other ingredients for the following morning
and new meals once you have these handle them as carefully as if they were your own eyes
the at babylon said use the property and possessions of the community as carefully as if they were your own as the tempo should handle all food received with respect as if it were to be used in alia with the emperor cooked and uncooked food must be handled in the same manner
so yes missions to of all the ingredients when can indulge i used an honorific convention in gardena sam for used to manually oh in front of most everything
in order to and
as a gesture of respect

so

sam
so the in every day he lived a few officers would meet with the turns out to decide what what the food is going to be an advocate and there's always the case
the largest up by itself doing stuff which often happens at a her i'm afraid to say when i was when i leave patches barriers that as a her and always in touch with the kitchen sometimes they don't like it and actually
if this has to be the communication and i do that here
next all the officers me in the kitchen pantry and decide what food is to be prepared for the following day for example the type of rice grow the vegetables decisioning in a challenge on g when it says when deciding on the amount of food
and number of side dishes with the mornings and in day meals the tenth or should consult with the other officers they are choose the constitutes the that you know just she's way as i mentioned before when they have chosen a meals in initially posted on a lotus pose in front of the habits room as well as in front of the study hall
so when this has been done preparations for the next morning's meal me begins you must not leave the washing and rights a preparation vegetables to others now i'm gonna that
as she says
it's not exactly clear have an email stuff is community eight that i think it wasn't just what i think they are also a breakfast
that's the morning meals think so
and then there's the medicine the other night cause the medicine ball which is not a real deal is just a little something to
will never answer to both instead of three at night
this deck the medicine ball

so when this is the preparations for the next morning meal they begin you must not leave the washing of rice and preparation and vegetables to others that which carry out this work with your own hands put your whole attention into the work say just what the situation calls for do not be absent minded a new activities were
so absorbed in one aspect of the matter that you fail to see us other aspect
services attorneys without partiality or prejudice
but he said it in the tensor should do all of this but the ten yeah nowadays the desert to do with the tens or does cooking but and overseas however things done it doesn't necessarily wash the rice meal after laceration seekers his arguments
didn't care when we buy it back in those days he has a pick up now the bugs from the stones we started out with them
beans we pick out the stones joy do that we shire to catch not between make the date and then also we watch the dunes
be careful not to let him go down the drain
so we should have that kind of attention attentiveness and also not get so
ah concentrated and one thing that we miss the rest that were not aware of their we should we do working in the kitchen is show she always be aware but everybody else is doing
we may have know exactly what they're doing that we know who was going that we have a feeling for what's going on in the kitchen so everybody people carry knives
and tools in touch stuff and no moving around in a very cool space so high harmony is the cup was uppermost thing that should be and then in order to create harmony we have to have awareness not just a an issue i'm doing better awareness with everybody
it doesn't does that awareness of the time
and hello i'm test edition three
and have you
think this is the joy actually working in kitchen is to create that harmony when recreating i'm in john rises
so
and then small mine disappears in big my intention of it

so do not be absent minded in your activities national observer in respected man that you feel she is other aspects do not overlook one drop in the ocean of virtue by interesting the work to others but cultivated spirit which strives to increase
the source of goodness of the mountain goodness
i think dug in and purchasing because when he was in china he talks about am
a cook in a monastery is an just laid around you know i'm really being such as yourself danger
hanging out and letting his people and other people just do our work and he wasn't really particularly involved and he said the worst possible thing
or somebody in that position so i think that's why he's been really my putting this in here
don't don't you just a word to others doesn't mean that you can trust to retailers it means dots stand by and watch everybody worked with you some of your mouth
so again in the jungle and me we find it's intentional offers a meal without harmony of the six letters in three columns it cannot be said that he serves the community i an hour detect about the fish leverage his three qualities are light and flexible
clean elite
conscientious and thorough
the light and flexible and you know how to balance and a meal
if you have subjects
fairly heavy asylum in the first problem
and something chile really chewy and the same goes you don't wanna put something like that as a certain individuals that's why we usually have soup or juice in the middle because he can't get as we get a drink
yeah if you are chewing chewing chewing june
cheering charity which means something let is so mix balance and wet and dry balancing light and heavy you know what three heavy beaten every dishes you don't want three dishes or to light
so bad that thing about how you balance those qualities is a really important and i'm always talking to cut it out there
because come
how is empowers the meals were like that you will and i said something where because i was pretty dry so you have to think about those things light and flexible is not only for the food is for your body issues like inflexible and when you move around and then that got into the food
your personal she gets into the boot and is transferred
am
so actually when you have lower beating his spirit
this is a and distributed through
now simply called the good
so washing when washing the rice remove any santa is kind and in doing so did not lose even one grain of rice when you look at their eyes see the sand at the same time when you look at the and see also the rice and examine both cares
really than a meal containing the six flavors and three qualities will come together naturally
rice and in sad actually it's about
going beyond preference
and here's an example
chewing
i show for you you are you in was much the ten of and adoption of the mk
one day while showing fun was lashing the rice dontcha i happened to pass by and yes do you wash the sand and pick out the rice i watch the right i make up the sand so this is like not liking her horizon sam
tang but your attitude and your mind
i watch you throw away bush and in their life together short function he died
an answer
yeah joyful i'm retired now
dude i'm sorry
me i then what on earth to the residents here eat national festival he replied we've been doing over the rice bucket
don't answer that they will come when you were practice with other master
wish he did
but if he didn't say that he turned over the rest by her in it
maybe the plan to fight is
i'm elaborate distinctions that green beverages in the same way the great teachers from earliest times who are set of know i have carried out their work with their own hands how are we in an experienced practitioners to today able to remain so negligent in app
raptors those who have can be for us have said that way thinking mind of a ten so it's actually less than rolling up your sleeves
method so
guess it's babbling i should stop
ever have a question
ha ha
access
talk
it just covered a bunch of things that i can write a train extra here to be a hanzo and i sends out and and the two things that i think about why is that i'm a little concerned about my ego and because i'm off i didn't think it for years after the eyes could access an animal anatomy
some alone
i'm assuming that the tens of to keep me in check and the other thing is i noticed that most of time that cold stare like at the stove cooking the main thing
yeah yeah i like that i like the kraftwerk a life that makes just fun and there's that that i think it
i don't really want to stop that so
a the fitted to them his you like them
and
we let man
there's a form of the stereotype of when you enter a monastery
you have to interview with the teacher and and you should i am here to study with you in a monastery please teach me
you have that attitude then it doesn't matter whether to do with what i want to do you say what would you like me to do and how would you like me to do it
that's what everybody that of kitchen should do
where do you want me to work would you like you don't know have not just know the tensor should be able to say i want you to cut the carrots this way not that way for this dish things go this way
and the tenth should take that responsibility
not just say oh you do that until you run away know you do it this way that way you let go of your preferences and he is still at the way your as to do that's that's how you of the go here we go
just
how'd you want me to i'm on the you're submitting yourself when you say how when she eliminated but would you let me to do with seventy yourself and how would you like me to do it is
let go of yourself
and an okay
some of the year
that's are you have enough
and you the problem of ego is a thinker
to just keep that attitude
and it will be phased that you won't like are happening that i'm just duty air conditioning
you're conditioned responses the others just my condition this bunch
don't pay attention that
let go of your condition
in this ledger condition might take over
why i didn't want to cut the carrots that's your condition mind
that's it you that the i'm just doing what you want me to do
that's on is not what i want to do i want to do what you want me to do that terminate and then you're doing what you want to do you doing exactly what you want to do it because what you wanna do is what your as to do when those took together net practice
he heard real problem is it you know we have a conditioning is really strong
i can listen in the industry
the pub practice missed the global conditioning
as he should be said that it's a lifetime's work
you'd no question about the car you just a of
an activity the way it sounds to me like that the teacher is trying to engage the students the students serve thinking minds rational line saying things like well what you thought all away where we going to have to eat another state in terms of bucket over he's not willing to engage that he says
it is not only be caught he's doing something not door or something instead of doing something instead of a rational response getting into the argument and thinking of the reply he is just what is not not he's not playing dumb number so not play around well yeah those not be cut by
the teach try to catch her namesake and he's got sick so if that's true why did the teacher then say someday you will practice somewhere else have this is it is just trying to joking kitten play or as
something else to oh
i didn't the appreciate that answer have not been not been caught well it's an overly dramatic to the a conceptual thinking as that is it sent over dramatic
response
didn't even need to do that
to turn it back yeah the mountainous is he could have done a similar way so that is a history they did not like the that if to it was too
a dramatic
to fit the situation arachnids
yeah
hey that was three fun the trip yeah you put the bucket so i i see that as a became great teacher is a right via feel like a style thing so the student and teacher they were like different styles and use encouraging him or just imagining him at some point this kind of behaviors
we not going to work in my temple but some of the type of and teacher can work with that kind of feisty energy or ever lived to have felt so that the death
yeah