This morning we chanted together, the mind of the great sage of India is intimately transmitted. Living in stillness is this transmission. This transmission, this intimate transmission is living in stillness. All the practices of the living in stillness.

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Stillness is living in all the practices. recently asked me about practicing loving-kindness. He said he found practicing loving-kindness beneficial, but he as a practice done in the Zen tradition,

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I would say that great loving-kindness is living in stillness and silence. Stillness and silence are living in great loving-kindness. The bodhisattva called Avalokiteshvara is also called Khandzean.

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In English we might say, the enlightening being listening to the cries of the world Listening to the cries of the world is living in stillness and silence. Stillness and silence are living in listening to the cries And again, I suggest that the intimate transmission is living in stillness.

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I imagine if I would suggest to you that zazen is living in stillness You might not be surprised to hear that. And if I said that silence and stillness were living in zazen, that might also make sense to you. Does it? all Buddha's activities called zazen, listening to the cries of the world, observing all living beings with eyes of compassion, precious mirror samadhi, self-fulfillment samadhi,

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All Buddha samadhis, all bodhisattva samadhis are living in stillness. And stillness is alive practices. All of these practices are the special, intimate, transmission mind. What we chanted was, the mind is transmitted. But that language may sound like a thing and the transmission is another. the face-to-face mind of transmission, the face-to-face transmitting mind.

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The mind and the transmitting are not two things. The Buddha mind is nothing but transmitting, the Buddha mind. And it is living in stillness. you

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Thank you. [...]

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Thank you. Thank you. In the midst

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of all the activities of daily life, I pray that assembly remembers stillness and silence. Activities of daily life. I pray that the Great Assembly receive stillness and silence. I pray that the Great Assembly practice stillness and silence. I pray that this great assembly transmits stillness in silence.

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That all of us and each of us transmit the intimate transmission of the mind of the great sage of India. It is given to us now in our relationship with another. May we take care of it.

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And one of the frequently occurring activities of daily life is to forget it. So when we forget it, I pray again and again. May our intention equally extend to every being and place where

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