Three Doors Of Liberation

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this morning i am going to talk about a subject which is three subjects
the three subjects are really one subject and the one subject ah
if he might into three parts
so this is a young
ha ha
a buddhist understanding
ah but what was called emptiness we talk a lot about emptiness we win a lot of unhappiness and so i hope it's not a boring subject for you
you hear me okay
i've got on
i have enough i am a governor senate we we can hear you oh okay everybody can well can you marry oh i can hardly hear you at all
the and
what about that
here's i see thumbs and better thank you know when you woke up
get there were getting a refund
coming up the hill you know
pretty soon we're going to the subject
so
this a account
come on the three doors of liberation

i think today
the three doors of liberation
our emptiness
oh
a
silence enough silas
and i'm the wish lists
so we're very familiar with emptiness
maybe not so familiar with finalists and i'm wish lists
so without with emptiness and which is riddled with the probably by me to such as all about
ah hum
ah we say it's about emptiness but it's also about form i think we need to understand that the future is like just about emptiness it's about form is about the emptiness of form and about the form of emptiness
so we use this term empty nest soup and a problem with that are emptiness is that have been so many other things so we have to focus on we we're talking about angeles where we really mean by emptiness because we can meet a lot of different things that actually in buddha dharma a twenty
meaning through the term emptiness but there are related
also in order to to to am
easily easily
hum identify what we mean the back in vidarbha it means inter dependence
all created dharmas are things are
mt of their own inherent existence in other words were are dependent to nothing in this world that is less dependent on the everything else
okay so that's pretty easy the problem is how do we practice this is it just a theory it's it's just something new each and every day how do we actually practice emptiness
can we want to practice emptiness
is it was practicing emptiness
so you can practice emptiness right here right now
we understand it can we don't understand it
so emptiness of the current was
form is a bitcoin worth what is one what are forms basically
i had emptiness is the emptiness of
when our forms
so forms being emptiness means that they are all all forms are interdependent well other frauds
that's why there's no special self
so did we understand this and can practice it is the form of the liberation
because we are trapped
we're trapped in our bodies
we're trapped in a circumstances
i was a track but ah we are contained within within and those containment containers can either be a trap for suffering or a doorway to the parisian it just depends on how you ah
we actually deal with
the circumstances of my life
so this is our killer court connected with what we call coma
so if our actions are directed towards liberation that's what we've find if our actions are directed toward confinement the nursery we put ourselves in jail actually
you know a bit people are really caught
no matter what the circumstances are
suzuki roshi remember it always and don't get caught by funny thing what is that bracket don't get caught by anything
but he taught by a desired
ah delusions

so i emptiness is a doorway to liberation
and it is a doorway deliberation if we practice it
this morning
when i was sitting zazen
you can you you were lucky because you are setting in and quietness of your home i was sitting in the docusign had
and or around to begin the end of the first period
someone started the construction pipe a construction party in other over the side of the fence and the other side of the fence
and then i was
thinking about my first reaction was
oh my god it's just going to go on all day i mean it would really love and by shouting and and digging with shovels and and it was quite an interesting situation
and i should well i'm like can you get up i'm just gonna sit here and
to see what happens
my first thought was of how i saved myself
i should i get up or not
but no i just that the her
and it was a little bit annoying if i didn't like it it was annoying
if i didn't care whether elected or not it was a lot easier not that i liked it
but i was able to
instead of trying to escape from it to go right into it
this is how we find our freedom
well there's no escape the only escape is to be one with something
cause as long as we're only only involved in our a dualistic thinking
as long as we are involved in i lived in where there's no escape the only escape is to be one with everything
so i didn't try to be one and i wasn't going to be a hero it's just i found myself
that worrying about it
even know if county in my head i just to worry about it
and so
this i'm going to talk about today heroin hundred and one of the things
how'd you find my freedom within an impossible situation

i'm so
how do we am
oh
see ourselves
free from how do we practice free from
ah desire
does aren't too much
and herself
pity
repose self pity
oh me oh my
which brings us into the other two aspects
which are the silence
and the wish lists
you know
we see indirectly most of the time we see indirectly riddled when i say see means of ah
with we see through signs we invent words to stand for something and we are
words and concepts and ideas to stand for something so then we name something
russell street i'm on russell street
that's not untrue
but it's it's it limits my understanding we have to limit our understanding and order to do anything you know if we don't have signs it if we don't have
ah representations
it's really hard to move around with each other
so signs or representations they are
our little posters are big posters that we invent in order to
ah
am
a to move with each other to move tomorrow and she yeah it's an entrapment a national student oh yeah i knew where that is so relieved of things we did side but the signs are representations and i'm thinking is representational
so wait i know what if they were trapped in her mind even though we are
but we need we need that that can we confinement and differentiation read it's important but it still
avail
if it's avail at because we design our life to conform to the signs and then we live in it in a in a life of signatures
instead of breaking through to directly understanding for directly touching

so there are in a in a consciousness
there are three aspects
one is directly touching
just call it intuition by the way intuition directly touching without having to go through
the machinery of thinking
it's just there this period
and then an hour
as a doorway of liberation
she reclaim to the signs as a real life
and we don't want does vested that's the problem we have with birth or death
we don't want to die to the signs
and as soon as the signs are taken away we feel jittery because we depend on them
so instead of differently depending on our intuition or are directly touching like animals do
we depend on earth and and besides that we agree on as reality
we're not agree on these thinks this is a america we agree i disagree of course better better as some ideas you know about
how about our society should act according to the signs
allowed to i'm actually you know go to rewatch
sen
ah you know before there was there were rules and regulations everybody adapted to life perfectly
something like that

ah i'm looking to cat
so
here and some
listed as directly saying that's intuition that's freedom
the next sign the next level of
ah
ah
consciousness is where
we start to think
the thinking is there
ah and it's it's discursive but it's simple
and then the third level of consciousness is where you elaborate on the thinking
does my understanding all three are necessary
but if we lose
art are not aware of the first level which is intuition
we're still living in a ar
a world of signs

why
i
so here are for signs that the buddhist pay close attention to
when i'm the first felt the first sign
is i have herself
the second side i am a person the third sign i am a living being the fourth stuck for saying i have a lifespan that goes from my birthday first one
to the last one to the end that that expense that's the fourth side
i am
so
we said when when you we realized that self or the lunch up that's a doorway deliberation
we're liberated from ourself
but we don't want to be eliminated from hacker
we don't want to be alienated from myself don't we
we have to accept that fact
that's right for her to die
when you realize that you're connected with everything
and that you are not as separate entity it's not for are to today
but we hang on
and of those things that we can't am
ah handle richest suburb with
flatow else because the life of separately bucks an hour on the world are suffering
and buddha says i only teach you how to deal with separate
that's my message
jennifer we talk about these things
and act of course we hear this all time right we're sick of it there's no self no cell
a poster
and word
you're sick of it because we can't do anything about it but we can
we can do something about it
and then the idea of a person meaning separate person as a separation is necessary otherwise you couldn't walk around right in do on things that we do so it's necessary
no it's necessary to realize that we
that we have herself
if necessary to realize that we are a person
if necessary to realize that and we have a lifespan
oh except that these are our signatures there are signs
they're not truly true reality that their secondary reality than that primary reality so secondary reality and primary reality

so nirvana is reached
oh god we when we're no longer fooled by signs

so we keep making more and more flights
and keep you know struggling struggling to make life more complex
we think that we're done a great job making life more complex
do you remember
when we're the pandemic restarted thereby rushing around like crazy without realizing that that's what we're doing
we've kind of know that but then the pandemic in and to
everybody should big breath
good wonderful
the first month was it
because we're all just
he couldn't do anything
and it wasn't our lot
baby
but then immersed in it were trying to to make things work better
and we better be very careful that we don't keep me from yourself more complicated our more and more complicated this was a great treasure this a pause and like an ally
at the skies cleared up the water became what less poisonous
everything was getting better
and we kind of realize that most some people
but has been so worrying
the main thing is that there is suddenly called the lifespan
yeah i know it's not a true lifespan it's just a lifespan for this particular oh world and this particular time
which concern to tell me
because everybody goes through this nobody escapes and i don't like people talking when i'm talking
anyway
i'll take it
hum
so the third one
this called wish lists
you see have these are all connected wish lists means
letting go
an it a pre being able to appreciate everything around us
letting go and being able to appreciate everything around it just as it is to accept myself just as i am
this is card
oh
virtue
it's like everyone has their own virtue
which is not the same as value value is comparison rate so we stopped comparing ourselves to other things one of the driving factors in their lives that were orange comparing herself for and a thief and we think it and the the energy to generated we like to think of
it's progress
competition
but wish listeners is beyond competition
it's actually called ah nirvana just dropping
just letting letting now be now just let this business
so we live in our dream it's like letting go of the dream and that's scary
because we depend on the dream to really never dream of we do
you just have to go find another dream dreams are important absolutely dreams are born to have something a goal is important absolutely but
to have find your freedom within the goal
which is beyond our wishes

so it is also characterized by not running out of things
ah awful i work at at night i like the streets
with regret every night i like the streets with my dog
and i come across all kinds of stuff on the corners
our countries that i get that i would like to take that home gee that's such a nice chair the get find a chair a really good share of the other night and sell it to get on and but i often briefings home and glimpse my wife should when why you to point you bring it home
and what lebron at home at the time it looked really good
you know like somebody a real each in a bucket but an ipo is useless things home so i'm very conscious and aware of you know of
how did how i should control my wishes
and believe it or not
after ninety one years i realized that if you follow what you want that's what you get
so he'd have to be very careful
probably our society our society is that ah
there's so much has been pushed on us that and everyone has a better than a better one an excellent
and so very confused
i remember when as is an hour and my son daniel recent annual i went to them
yeah
the
i'm
and to college
he
ah he he roomed with four or five other
students and one of them was very wealthy get actually the guys around the house his father if parents are very wealthy so hum
he opened the garage door and there's a motorboat and a bicycle and a motorcycle and everything you can possibly think of you know that would please a kid and it came with some miserable
you really miserable
and all his stuff that use it for a little while and got a next land a little while there's no nothing basic about his life
so this is these three characteristics
ah
i actually how you bring peace into the world
the what the world
the world depends on these three characteristics understanding the empty nature of all things beef the editor dependent nature about beach
adam
getting beyond signs so we can see touched directly the reality
and that were not fooled by
literature not fooled by signs that followed by ideas
but getting her choose directly from the source
so easy to fool people
mr trump us out there with two thousand and five thousand lies which are all signs
that we're supposed to believe can you imagine that and people what are they thinking anyway
and i'm not going into politics i'm just using original illustration
and then
tony down you who wish list
and being able to appreciate we only have so that's how we practice session am i ever hear average at for thousand
that's i was sitting there with nothing
we have nothing and when you can actually deeply understand had you don't have any suffering

tell this is it play a plain jane buddhism
don't cause your shovel and problems
and
and
you know in said we let go we offer ourselves
two emptiness
and a silence less
andrew
her wish lists if we don't canker after anything we like all the verbiage and all the signs
and simply give myself to reality
which is emptiness or for him
enjoying our forms even if we're not well you can do that

hmm

i have a little poem hereby
check out on

hmm
so he says
waking up this morning and smile
twenty four brand new hours or before me
i love to live fully on each moment
and look at things look at all things through the eyes of love
for loans very simple
very direct
right you
that's all you need
and that's i thought just before we sit zazen first thing in the morning
and there we said we like about that
there will get back up we take it up

so ah the doorways of liberation or nirvana
litton dropping
everything
wishing
just for the wellbeing of our babies
there's enough
that's nirvana
but you know because you were people busy month
with
i'm busy bodies were busy bodies and busy minds
that's a we need something from busy bodies in a busy minds to do
but are busy i busy minds
i'll just can just
ah practice nevada
emptiness and and form to forms of emptiness emptiness of of forms are the most important thing in our life
surprised prajna by meter is not to be studied and lived to be studied but it's actually the be practiced if you only study it
just something missing
so you practice it
it's helpful to study it as well
because week although we directly touch it's also important to share our understanding with the ancestors where did they say about this how they approach project how do they understand it and all that comes down to us to help us to practice
so study and practice for setting the right things

so that you stay on the right track
the feel right
well in the field right
so i i can't say that i'm a great agric had you know i'm a pretty good but ah or example i'm okay
but nevertheless i don't worry about that too much
i just do what i do
and i tried real hard to stay on track
one of the things that i'm a little concerned about
i don't notice if it's correct it up but i'm worried about our practice flying the pieces
not find anything attraction for follow the pieces but i am
i'm a little concerned
that because there's no
the the only thing that's keeping us together as or memory effect
better
ah
what that we are ah
i'm really a sincere practice but i'm worried that we will lay back too much
because there's nobody pushing us nobody propping us up and i'm concerned that we will come
just take it easy you know i think to a certain extent is curb because were recovering from our the pandemic before the pandemic
the pandemic before the appellate and pandemic is are being pushed around by our desires
that was a real pandemic killed a lot of people you made allowed to for sick
now i can appealing even though we're in the midst of this terrible pandemic in sickness and everything is get everything appears with this opposite
that if we understand that everything appears with its opposite we won't worry too much
this too will pass and it's opposite will appear at as the dominant and then that too will pass and it's opposite it will appear as the dominant that's so it is one thing fall the other like the car travelers to horse
the car and the horse you made me know if the car doesn't work without the horse
and the heart and and ah
the course the horse of course ah
ah
ah carries of the baggage
it's a wonder great to not have any baggage for a month
i mean you don't have to go hiking in our camping orange going to just free
so we had our freedom for about a month now it's coming back and know how can we trap ourselves more
so be careful
do you have a question but when visitors center in a burning question recently where are we all brass i
so i'm sharing how process and either
and up up up up up
if anyone would like to ask a question and okay i see some hands already going up but i will explain how you just go down to the participants at the bottom of your screen open that up and then of the box will appear and it says raise hands you can just like that area if you want to type your question and type it and send it to ross whose
the co-hosts so that i can see that and he and i can manage staff together and unfortunately computer we probably won't see your your human hand i'm so sorry so either type your question or raise your blue hand

ellen
you are now ready to ask a question please lower your hand
well my hand okay
ha me to lower my hand of a particular with okay
okay i'm gonna asked my question even though i can't see certain yet and
so i am also really notice them month after we were all kind of locked down and many many people i know spoke to me about how
the wonderful it was to suddenly you know stop or pause
and i'm curious you know what the enticement of busy-ness is what is it that you know draws people even though they were so clear about how great it was to not be busy there they were drawn into being busy and then i think they want
good to be drawn into it and i'm just so curious about that
i remember when
a black two thousand civilians that when we had the earthquake and the bay bridge lost its roadway member the him
and so everybody had to go to to the the withdraw way around he had to
go by ferry
and i used to take the period i was up in san francisco zen center at the time i would ride my bike down to their a very big
berkeley ferry and then put the my bike on the ferry and with the most wonderful trip across the bridge across the bay now the ships in the water and the birds and it's i got a whole different world of refreshment that was the most refreshing thing that happened to me
in the urge and i will do that three four times a week and a ride my bike ride my bike up market st vincent
oh as soon as the bridge became repaired everybody everybody
my back to the bridge
smokey and traffic in know stop ago and i'm you know and we tried to
get you know stay have that varies they open but other writers have disappeared into the into held
the to extend seven for help
so to speak
so so what's the appeal of that what is what is it i mean i know you know some people need to move faster but
you know during this time people really wanted to go yes so the problem is left to to work
good sorry
that's the way it is you know and found a partner in the interdependent life is that everybody has to work through it bed can stay you know
ha
eat and sober so that's where we're working with right now
the innocent people to do so many people to do
ah and they have to start doing something so that's the other side well that is the other side and i really honor that but i'm talking about people who are you know not working for one reason or another and still they're drawn toward you know just accelerating their lives is because they used to it
he use we just depends on what we're used to
the thirty switch from depending on what we're used to to go
it's it's it's not easy
not even
get nevertheless
the road
but it's the road less taken
oh okay
a surgeon blake has a question when you correct someone's posture in the zendo how is this done wish leslie
you see a need and you respond to it

okay
a carrot is in time your next please ask your question
thank you sojourn hum
last week last saturday you said thinking his imagination
can you talk a little whore about that players know well
imagination is creating images
oh yes so you can always creating images that's let's go
no signs
recreate the image to represent the sing
so representation
representations of called signs
the honor of the imaginative
representation of the actual
however
there you know the it's really hard to separate you know what is a completely that directly touching you what his imagination it's not always easy separate this it's it's a wavy line it's not a fine line
so
ah
when when you when you go to the beach and you run into the ocean and that cold water it's you desperately thirsty
let's just one example you're dreaming about the beach i remember when i was a kid in a recent drive to venice beach from hollywood i was about six or five rhythm and as soon as we get down to them through where the beach where i could average of
in my imagination or just going crazy when will we get the that place where beautiful the which is where the road it's the beach
smell of salt water i get smell of salt water to two miles away
that's directly touching
being outdoors is really good for people
does the dualistic track that we live in is that begin with thought
yes yes
this thought to discrimination
discrimination you can go in and sit in your chair and that i'm gonna come help the okay let me wipe your backups
whatever you wanna do and there you go gonna redo interesting
thank you
i didn't hear the answer to my question i not so i'm still working and your question thank you thank you tanya
to judge a little bump don't worry about it
don't get mad at obama
so thinking
this is anything you say is discriminative
we can't help ourselves unless we do unless we're conscious of what we're doing
because it's very easy to find introduce criminal thinking where are we therefore we have cause the columns that we study or about non-discrimination
and about the discrimination of non-discrimination and the non-discrimination of discrimination
you may say that may sound corbelled but it's the truth because everything
every time we open our mouths were talking world where wears out
separating ourselves
so thinking we can think we don't have to speak with thinking discriminatingly
an active discriminatingly but as necessary
as necessary to actor scripture to were discriminating constantly the not a moment we were not discriminate i decided to do this rather than i do that right so discrimination is important but
because our minds always discriminating the oh pay attention to the non discrimination which is directly touching the truth
because there's no division
so there's a secondary teachers and the primary jurf the secondary choose is this is discriminating truth
the i the truth is
the is we're not thinking
or whom were thinking done discriminative lee
which is difficult that's why because the dog of the buddha nature know what i'm trying to a good pitcher know
then chose u and other night because the guy goodwin
kibler brewed an interesting of course
which is true
that's why it's a on
do you exist as a person
well yeah
georgia would say no
and then as can again it should we of course
so what is it is that yes there is no do you exist as a person or don't you
it's both and
where does the where it is
history or the past moment meet the next moment

in a universe where everything is changing without stopping
if there's no stopping
how can want thing mean another
so i'll just one worthy ball
it never stops
except that is perfectly still
at the same time

that's why when we drop our
we wish listeners which is discriminating
we we entered the realm of nirvana
just to drop are discriminating might and it's all been
that's what we said thousand
it just as stop discriminating like damage stop meaning to pick things up don't get caught by anything
we live in the world whirling ball of everything and of chaos within within a order an order within chaos you can't have one without the other
you can't us that some some gps on the can have one without the other sorry to the news
change it if you can
thank you so much