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Not Always So, Rohatsu Day 7

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week seven seven film about him rowhouses machine
in which we commemorate
shocking conclusion
somewhere around
twenty five hundred years your goat
where are shockingly shirt and finally after a long history of asceticism
i realized that the and wasn't the way and that there was a
ah interesting that the cynicism
the decision aestheticism was not the way and he was a an experiment
a sedative
in the day and
however the just a story about the most money to than a giant you almost dying and she gave me gush of milk and didn't end with polymers and or gee maybe some he himself and he was
can you
the
well take a citizen of the way
it is a felony burn injury but when i got the bodhi tree and
ah
he should i'm gonna sit here until i realized when laden it really is
in asceticism this
be based on the idea that
if you want to reach the truth of nirvana or reality
the have to separate yourself from who are over of the and
the neither world in order to find the truth
ah
did he realize that that was not the way because there's something missing
called the world
if i realize now
he said all night and then in the morning
a movie star came out
when you know starting document of the realize that herself with the whole universe
herself with the whole universe with nothing added and nothing left out
this is the beginning of the understanding and good governance

oh so every year we
celebrate if you wanna call it that
the a bonus enlightenment by fitting for seven days in the same way that he did
and a real killer enlightened
the definition actually and

enlightenment is with
princess to begin to
rojas to setting
enlightenment is not the end
manfred his money into the end of the beginning
but if the activity itself
shockingly realize that in the daily activity the activity of practice itself is like
it's not something to gain
and that's something to lose our true nature is in like nature or to nature of light
so i wouldn't talk about it
an efficient understanding of it from the point of view of my own teacher
i'm looking machine

the way he understands is the same way that has a shift ancestor of jan and china understand
we thinking
the enlightenment as some lofty
then that we can get or when they never never be able to yet
because it's so lofty and so grand
but fish ancestor british everything down to just plain daily activity
are just normal play everyday activity and she's a hero she explains manage flames but
is again a fiddle allows us to understand that
no ordinary activity is where enlightenment research
hmm
but to realize that isn't the most difficult thing
this method
enlightenment should difficult is that realization is difficult
because of a divine in mind

so i've learned from a comment on his thoughts
he thought come it
as in our practice
the most important thing is to realize that we have good nature
each one of us the a the nature of buddha the same nature as jackie mooney
but pretty nature
what does that mean
intellectually blue english
up with nature remain about buddha nature and intellectually
we know that okay i share them with a good natured but what does that mean
but it is rather difficult to accept
our everyday life is my realm of good and bad the duality well major is found in the realm of the absolute where there is no girl and know bad there is a twofold reality
so it
don't understand the twofold reality of our life
when the reality of
the dharmic higher and one of the reality of the new i have
damn icon round is the good natured another was are absolute reality
the other is for ordinary isn't a dualistic activity
so if you need a question that old memes have good nature and there's no good in a ban it ultimately no right no wrong and ultimately
only half the story
if you believe that if you always see that side than you think for you took my know we just kill everybody doesn't matter nothing matters to no good or bad
so the problem is that you could see
the this ah isn't cannot stand by itself you know like the other side is where human beings demanded human beings
but we must live in and do it in a deluded world
our life takes place in the world of delusion
and we have to accept that are left takes place in the dualistic world is delusion but will wish look at human been buddhist literature it looks like we should
yeah for yet and touristic world and a and and try to understand the buddha-nature
a good in asia
only comes through comes forth between are doing a delicious nature
so
disinclination of good and bad right and wrong
yes and no black and white
hmm

so our practice is to go beyond around going bad and to realize the attribute it may be rather difficult to understand so is actually matters to realities but three
when is the reality
of good an ancient are the absolute in which there is no of duality at all
everything is just as it is
an episode which is the round duality brandon routh wedding that's where we live our life
so we must have roof we must have compassion
we must be careful not to harm fish
these are the to search of our nature the third side is to go beyond both of the other side
to transcend of the other side or to see one with any other
the actual nature is the same nature as the dualistic nature and the dualistic nature is the same as the absolute nature even though is separate
the wonders of duality and the duality of oneness cause our understanding of enlightenment
ah he touched about hockey motor roshi for the film was done was to compare the various mansions or fifty five he said that the way we could the japanese is to prepare each and not separately
if i have a japanese neil in flour mixed up things but a lot of shepherd little items
i'm from mentioned here in the pickles or of a year but when put them in are coming you don't know which is which
in august dissolved in the world so
the soup rice typical and everything on get mixed up this is the world of the absolute issue the world of the darkness when on
the pieces are laid out that the world of duality and light
and when you eat them they disappear in the world of darkness and become one
so are we are different ways you talking about one bush and about dark and light
in this case dark reach one dish and lightning's separateness
it when you turn the light
where have revealed in her individuality and when you turn out the light we all disappear into one dish that's the metaphor
the
as long as right pickles issue will remain separate they are not working
you not been nourished so this is like your intellectual understanding of our knowledge no separate from your actual life
so we must experience for dishes are the reason for practice we can study a lot and we can understand a lot about buddhism but until we actually practice
realization are enlightened and doesn't comport although some people had been have had a realization through me
shake it off whenever an interesting
ah became enlightened when he was running a saint charles
where st joseph
hum
piniella or divine wisdom
ha is not knowledge
so just practice is connection with the various ingredients we have
i understand it and letting it all work together
down a kerosene lamp will not work merely because it is filled with kerosene and also need air for combustion and even with them
air it means matches but the eight of matches here and cherishing and lamp will work so vicious our social practice
tom to harmonize body mind and brush with the whole universe
who doesn't practice is to
haha
offer our ego up
true buddha
ten thousand practice doesn't interaction is like and offer him all the elements body breath mine and universe are harmonizing
this is called enlightenment
the same way even when i say i have good nature that alone is not enough to make it work
if you do not have a friend or a saga it more work from the practice with the aid of the stronger held by judah the can practice in this to sense we will have bright light air in agenda or in our daily life
you know food and turn the saga for the three elements are three treasures just me say of practice
there was a
an issue of of the magazine bodhidharma that visually that talked about them
are people who practice by himself
very good ideas and not a good idea how to do them
i'm intrigued by that because
people
lot of different reasons why they practiced by himself
shimmer would say well i i have a lot of books and i have lots of information and i can ah
if i just use a rewind the and then information i can just practiced by myself
but a full practice is practicing with buddha crash with dharma and practicing with sanga saga for this may be the most important part
because when we practice alone
when just practicing for herself
so
practicing for herself is always considered egotistical
we want something for herself
but
a true practice is encouraging others to practice
no way we encourage others to practice is through saga
and we help each other in practice
oh
some people
just want to have a soccer practice and less not complete some people just want to have dharma practice and lesson i can play some people just want to have buddha practice and that's not complete
so
to have a is a practice which
it's like a lamp
all three houses
put it down and saga and just the lamp
you have a brave practice
which which helps everyone and have yourself

ah together
sure to have a show called enlightenment exchange is a course important but what is more important is to know how to adjust the flame and judging in our everyday life
when a frame is incomplete combustion don't smelly oil
when the smoking is will smell something he i realized that is a kerosene lamp her life is incomplete combustion you have no complaint in there's no need to be aware even of your practice
if we talk too much about fashion is already a smoky kerosene lamp
you know
we have many parts of our body and mind
we practice the whole body and mind so practice with the intellect when practice with intuition which is
located may be here
we practice with the heart we practiced with the body
now all of this
centers
we practice in harmony if their intellect becomes too heavy
then
deaths
it covers our intuition
will depend on your intuition
helped by our intellect
with a compassionate heart
then
the lamb fish brightly lit and that's lucky
if the head becomes too dominant the lamp starts to smoke
ah
intellect without her
compassion leads to cunning
and corruption
and compassion love inlet and without intuition
has no real direction
so all the park have to be harmonized and then
enlightenment
manifest
so maybe i'm a very smoky kerosene lamp i don't necessarily want to give a lecture and just want to live with you moving stones having a i shot there an innocent impaired
the is right there so that's a really beautiful you know that he's attached to her and if you send is just great to be here you know i don't wanna talk too much and just want to practice with you in an ordinary way because i want you to understand that the ordinary way practiced
thoroughly
it's already enlightenment

when i start to talk in our mission movie live as long as they must give a lecturer have to explain this is right practice this is wrong a crack your surgeon is not keeping a recipe it doesn't work he can intermission
job interview that you can a resting opinion arresting
maximize your much buffet practice russian you will attain enlightenment
if you would have like when normal detached from amazon and you will see things as he didn't of course that's true
but either way is not always so
we are getting him how to adjust the flame of our land back and forth
durban ginger nation at a point in the show provincial is teaching us to live each moment incomplete combustion and the land for a candle to live each moment becoming one with everything is the point of his teaching and his practice so how do we do that
he doesn't practice is a very subtle thing when you practice rather than you become aware of thing she did not notice whether you are working today and will stone for a while and i didn't realize that my muscles retired but when i was calmly shilling sergeant i realized
oh my muscles are in bad condition i felt some pain revenge for from my body you might think if a practice session much better if he had no problem but actually some problem is necessary they'll never be a big one
here the difficulty as you can practice session sufficient really important point
what is the lobby what is russian version is
having difficulty
and then you have difficulty
but have difficulty it's heartbreaking you can't really practice
this is why really shape
don't know
it still
and
you know each one of us have to find her own way
and
it looks like group practice but it's actually individual practice for individuals practicing the same practice in a way as one person
without difficulty we each have each one of us has to find a key to deal with geography
and the only way you can find the king to deal with difficulty is still faced difficulty
but it is a way
to use with difficultly instead of being used by

so this is an especially in the local point which is why derby ginger's practice and enlightenment or one practice is something you didn't consciously something you do with effort for intention and right there is enlightenment
that's right there and and you face your difficulty
so we'll all want to get rid of our difficulty
this is the doing
this is why we practice in the midst of delusion when you practice in the midst of delusion that late
enlightenment and delusion are not separate
enlightenment only comes up in the midst of delusion
derision is great treasure
division one wanting to escape
many investors missed this point while they were a sitting struggling to attain perfect something
things that exist are imperfect
generals how everything actually interested in this world nothing machine or here is perfect
but right there in the imperfection is perfect reality
it is true intellectually and also in the normal practice it is true on paper and true with our body
think that you can only establish you to practice after you attain enlightenment
but actually have to
not a thing but
experience enlightenment within our difficulty right there
to practice is established in delusion in frustration
if you mention the stone that is when establish your practice
some issues called continuous practice
oh continuous mistake
if you like in practice

we talked about enlightenment but illustrations perfect enlightenment a grounder understanding
our expunge even here are imperfect practice in one day
we just don't know
show the point is to find the true meaning of practice before we attain enlightenment
you as you
didn't put the emphasis and enlightenment people same or in talk much about enlightenment he didn't try to encourage people feel enlightenment
although i didn't
but his emphasis is on practice
practices the important part because practice and genders enlightenment
people want to get something called enlightenment he left the prize
you can get the prize
an issue
get on the horse

so whatever not are enlightened much better
is it there but how to access it
if you stand up right where you are that is little bit
without knowing who or where they should call i don't know virgin
we don't know what drugs it is anymore
i don't know who i am different clean composure when you don't know who you are and where you are this is to shift things as it is this is enlightenment
if you think i know who i am and no way i'm just not enlightenment
that's delusion
when i don't know
i don't know because who is it the knows
when i dropped than knowing appears
you don't you don't know who you are you accept yourself
that is you in his two cents when i know more that you will not be the real you you may overestimate yourself quite italy but when i say i don't know then you are
you know yourself completely
when you don't know that's when you know when you know that when you don't know
when know
then you can when when i don't know anyone and you know yourself completely damaged enlightenment that is also humility humility means knowing exactly who you are
i think our teaching my gerber if will become arrogant to believe in ourselves too much we will be lost there were no teaching know buddhism at all
we will find the joy of our life in and our composure
we don't know when it is we don't understand anything that our mind is very grave and very wide
i must be open to everything it is big enough to know before we know something
we are grateful even will probably have something either before we attain enlightenment we have to happen to preface way
we say that
ha since you say you should raise the fun of enlightenment she's very british you should raise the thought of enlightenment
home
but you know i never reached the third of enlightenment myself
when i started to practice i i didn't say i'm going to come to practice in order to get advisement enlightenment or something i just joined the practice your something that very compelling about feeling something and sunday very compelling about the atmosphere and
and so i just started practicing and of course nobody cares about enlightenment that it's not i wouldn't let by the thought of enlightenment i just wanted to practice can enjoy practicing and enjoyed the difficulty of practice
i think we can be practicing was been able to difficulty
that for me that was most vital part of practice with to feel with the difficulty because she was overwhelming
and
as i continued to practice should never have
and i remember as shooting one time to think i should keep practicing clinician you mean it's not difficult enough for you
he says if he can of the more difficult used to that
he was really encouraging
that's why i remember my teacher so much
are some he brought out something you believe that i didn't know i have
ah so he is another type of enlightenment much ah when he talks about that sticking to it
no her because he has managed as sheen is almost over
now that ever gotten
one and soon going back to your houses you have any children involved in everyday activity
if you have been practicing true version he made me happy to go back to your everyday life
international encouraged to go back but if you feel hesitant to go back to a city life or everyday life he means that you stick to surgeon
good point he had attached to suggest that is why such as such as should if you do
and stick to your practice than says natural fashion
when practice rather than a moment after moment you except when you have now in the moment and when were satisfied with everything i do because he just accepted and don't have any can clinch
that's seven
even if you cannot do that you know what you do
then sitting surgeon will encourage you to do other things as well
just as the ship in painful that for sharing your sheltered everyday life which may be more difficult than your traffic practice
there's no escape
if you practice
there's no escape version and you get a life or the same thing
you get up in the morning and brush your teeth a veteran eat your breakfast and you should thousand and you leave and go to work and it all in charge of different activities of the same thing
different aspects of the same activity
if you see them is different then this
revision
and when coming to the zendo sitting rather than going to work becomes ego
then you have a good practice
from
so if you come true if you come to have a taste of real practice
especially in the their city and then returned to her busy activity without losing tasty practice that will be read encouragement even though it is difficult and even knowing where be you will always have a taste of calmness in your mind not because you stick to it that because you enjoy it
when you enjoy it you don't have to stick to it so we have a real taste of our practice you can enjoy it all times when whenever you do
so composure and congress mind
if the basis of summary
ah ha
lapping that fairly separate from the true nature that somebody
you may think you're going to attain enlightenment but issue you're busy or in some difficulty and think you need to have that experience again the experience of attaining enlightenment with them
and that is not real enlightenment because it is something or sticking to through you may have an enlightening experience and then you keep one in tab that again best natural enlightenment he talked about enlightenment experiences you reading the book but unlike managed
ancient and but you made in the book or some unusual things could happen to people been unusual things happened all of us and sometimes what happens to one person may seem unusual but to another person just seems ordinary
summer looking ahead to created lightman experience that fiona and prisoners can just feel fashion ordinary experience
so that you want to stick to something wonderful
desk delusion
just to experience everything fully without discriminating
and like that activity
just to experience all of the current ban indifference this is good news is bad this is indicative visit as it doesn't matter
she's was the era experiences you may not like it
as figure she said you may not like it when you have enlightenment and you may not like it
that's right because it is offer difficulty
he was really facing difficulty
no one is always refuse so there's no need really sick to even think about it because it has always with you difficulty itself is enlightenment
you're busy life itself is rewarding activity that is true enlightenment
practice equals enlightenment
now known as well
now get on the street on the bizarre now i'm a young people are daddy actually that was in his time
he said my son i can go to the escrow of everyday to tap dance more
nine language
everyone knows regime
on a date if you want about your life get up at a certain time pick up your lunch bag lunches time and leave for work than the that if you have a girlfriend or boyfriend you know then there's no need to make a de mello which you've bought a new same track and so there's no need to make a day
a certain time she'll come to the corner for usually meet her
how much favour then then that's the way that is somebody is rather foolish and travel from to make phone calls for is talking about making a day with enlightenment
well so
it has rather forms and troublesome to make a phone call should never make again by telephone hey i'm leaving now
the name doesn't cover the corner will be disappointed
me to grow and she comes to the corner who be very happy
you retain your life
we're not amounting matter
the
on my typing merchant i can try to know
not to make anything with matter of fact and stick to enlightenment when you're encouraged by enlightenment and see her even just a glimpse of urge enough all they long will be happy
in china i however there was a movie that are a moment that he said to enlightenment
i knew the is disturbing vm
the hunter who
ah went out a hundred rabbit
an american idol bushes and we will be of that he was standing next to stump and the rubber read on bushes and into the stumpy thai chili
and can pick up the rabbit this is great
so
hey remember by strong
the
so that is one of the switch has no plans with and just to dwell on the government is not true practice
in
right one by one famous statement which is without dwelling on anything that didn't place to stand
you got you like
so if you stick to something new and agreement even though you try hard to make a day or an appointment doesn't work the enlightenment retain that way is something that you stick to that something that is always with you that always encourage you
this time is very important even after we finish our shushing continue to practice in your everyday life and have real environment this is a very fruitful sheen and some of you had a good taste of our practice even if you haven't and think you understand how to practice at info so for now just continue to practice
sincerely couldn't move right instruction of your teacher and someday you will have a taste of it which is just what i would have said
i'm so
you know if we hear whole life and practice than we have some distance from our difficulty we have some when feel with difficulty which is beyond i'm just a difficulty itself
difficulty is a treasure even like a machine like it
ha
so i'm now going to him
i'm great enlightenment experience
we're going to celebrate shocking when you put his enlightenment
so we can have ceremony
and
someone will explain the ceremony can you want to stay there may of a group of really funny but the thing until anyone to matter help with here
and if we can do it instead of the outside
so after finishing about from he said
hmm
he's let alone chairman
we have similar disruption
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