in the transmission of light. Not any story about the Venerable Nadarjuna. The 14th, I was a successor in the lineage leading up to us. And his teacher was, of course, the 13th. The teacher's name was Kapi Mala. Kapi Mala, I received and accepted the dictation of a Nagarji.

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And you see a wish-provoking jewel. Nagarjuna, who was studying with him at that time, asked him, is this the ultimate jewel of the world? Does it have form or is it formless? Let me know what's dead. You only know of having form or not. If you do not know, it's pure if it has form or is formless. And you do not yet know that its jewel is not a jewel. Nagarjuna, hearing this, was profoundly inviting.

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It is a good story about Nagarjuna. have been invited here, and we have accepted the invitation. We have been invited by the application committee of the Zen Park Monastery. And you've accepted the invitation and entered the monastery for this practice period.

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Arriving here, we all received a wish-fulfilling jewel that you may or may not have noticed. There's a story in the Lotus Stitcher about two friends who were spending the evening together drinking. One of them drank so much that he passed out. The other had to leave. But he wanted to give his friends something present and something to help him later on.

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So he took a precious jewel and put it into his robe, sewed it into his robe, so he'd have it to use later. Of course, when the man woke up, he didn't know the jewel was there. The jewel is passed to us when we're drunk, always. So we don't know it's there. Anyway, we all have this jewel. The question is, do we understand that it's neither form nor formless, and that actually

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He isn't a jewel at all. The jewel is sewn into your body, sewn into your mind, sewn into your breath. So now that you've had the chance to enter the monastery, At least take care of the jewel. Don't treat it as form. Don't treat it as formless. Don't treat it as a jewel. Be more gentle than that. Be more respectful than that. Oh, I guess I'll give my words.

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I see it. According? Yes. Pardon? Typical to say. 98%. Too much percent. How do we take care of our body without making it formless and understanding that it's not a body? How do you take care of yourself without making it formless and understanding that your breath is not your breath?

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What you think is your mind is not the mind. In this way, we have a chance to clarify that. And this is our real responsibility here. This story about Nagarjuna and his teacher occurred not from a person even, but after they'd been together for a while.

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Nagarjuna was a person in this book, Western India. Some other people say he was from Southern India. He was known by the name Dragonic Thorosophy and Supreme Dragon. Naga Arjuna literally means one who achieved argument with the aid of the Nagas. Naga Arjuna. One who achieved this goal by the aid of the native and modern. The thirteenth ancestor, Kalimala, having been ordained and having received the transmission of Buddha Dang, came to Nagarjuna's neck of the woods.

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There was a prince there who respected the name of this Buddhist teacher and invited him to his palace and provided him with offerings. Kapimala said, the Buddha had the teaching that monks should not approach the houses of kings, ministers, and politicians. The prince said, OK, well, north of our capital city is a huge monk. in which there is a stone cave. Perhaps the master would like to meditate in Tuesday. Papimala said yes. Then he went. Oh, then when he had gone a couple of miles into the mountains, he encountered a huge snake, a huge python.

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The ancestor stood, encircled, stood. No, excuse me, the ancestor went straight ahead without paying any attention to the snake. Then the python came and finally encircled the Venerable One. The ancestor therefore gave it the three treasures. After receiving And listening to the three repugies, the python departed. As the venerable ancestor was about to reach the cave, there was also an old man dressed in white who came out and greeted him, the ancestor said. Where'd you live, the old man said. In former times, when I was a monk, I enjoyed quietly and lived in seclusion in the mountain forest.

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There was a novice monk who repeatedly came and asked for instruction, and I, feeling troublesome and quiet, produced thoughts of anger and resentment. When I died, I became a python and have lived in this cave for a thousand years now. Now that I have a chance to meet you and receive the perceptual teachings of the three refugees, I am released and have just come to thank you. The ancestors said, who else is living in these mountains?

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Python said, the former Python said. Several miles north of here, there is a great tree sheltering 500 great nagar. The leader of the group is named Dragon King Magarjun. He always preaches to the crowds from nowadays, and I attended the lectures too. The ancestor said, thank you, Monty. and finally departed together with his followers. Karimala arrived where Nagarjuna was.

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Nagarjuna came out and greeted the ancestors saying, the deep mountains are lonely and desolate. It is a place where dragons dwell. Why has the great sage, the ultimately honored and honorable one, bent his feet, bent his steps here, turned his feet towards this place? The ancestor said, I am not the ultimately honorable one. I have come to visit this wide one. Nagarjuna thought to himself, Had this teacher turned into you and clearly illuminated the eyes of enlightenment? Is he a great sage, continued in a true way? Kapimala said, even though you are speaking in your heart, I've already

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habit in my mind. Just take care of renunciation. Just carefully consider leaving home. Why worry about whether I am sage or not? And after I dream of hearing this, what a shame. Repent it. And left home. The ancestors had him ordained and liberated. Also, the five leaders, Naras, received the precepts, too. After that, Nagarjuna followed Kapanala for four years. And at some point, Kapanala went

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The patient received the precious wish for pulling jewel and asking the question which I started with today. Is it the ultimate jewel in the world? Is it form or formless? As you care for this jewel, as you carefully work with something that may seem to be a form, Can you notice any obsession?

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Are you driven to make it a form? Are you driven to react and call it formless? Can you take care of things which are not themselves? Can you search for the true way to care for your experience That's not a quote to you about Rudi's recommendation that you don't collect Krusa grass to make their meditation cushions.

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When Nagarjuna was collecting Krusa grass, he was kind of in a hurry. He wanted to get the grass together so he could sit. possible and in his rush he killed a bug you know some people think it was a dragonfly but anyway he killed it and because of that he had a lot of work to do to yank up for that This story starts with a snake who liked to sit in the forest and meditate quietly.

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But when asked about the Dharma repeatedly by a monk, he'd lost his temper. When I was in college, I joined the Book of the Munkla. And one of the books I ordered was a short story of Somerset Maugham. Somerset Maugham went cruising in the South Seas, I think. And he heard about an island where there was a farm. Someone living in coconut groves. and he wanted to go visit the sage. So he did, and when he arrived, he found the sage, and found the sage to be one grumpy, nasty old guy who was really quite angry that anybody bothered him.

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So Kazan Zenji says, do not live secluded in a mountain forest, seeking peace and quiet like that ancient monk. Really, this is a mistake that has been made in the past and in recent times as well on the part those who have not yet realized and wiped them up. Still, people say that mixing with others and studying in the midst of all activities is not tranquil. So they want to live alone in the mountain forest and quietly sit in meditation and carry out the way. Those who say this and then hide in the mountains practicing wrongly mostly come down false paths because of this.

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If you want to know why, it is because they don't know reality and they may put themselves first. They also say, well, the Zen Master Daivai sat alone in the pines and mists with a miniature iron stupa on his head. And Zen Master Li-san also practiced in the clouds and mists with tigers and wolves for companions. You too should practice this way, some people say. This is really lack of it. Whilst the nutrition is still alive, I asked if it would be alright if I got up early and medicated.

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I couldn't be able to use it. Crank disease. Could I practice? Put myself first. He said, okay. So I practiced early. I also put one of those white bowl which still exists in the world. And I put marbles in it. Put it on top of my head. So if I move slightly, the marbles will roll around and go, sat like this. My neck got very tense. I'm trying to be that so still not to move those marbles. Because the slightest movement they would roll.

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I've heard about these guys sitting with the miniature voters on their head. sitting in trees on the edge of cliffs. So I tried to. But still, it's laughable. Probably I can tell this story every year and always get a laugh. When I gave it to you. You should know. that the ancients practiced this way while awaiting appropriate conditions to teach in order to mature their work on the way after having become enlightened and receiving the seal from a true teacher. Daivai received the true seal from Basso.

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Isan and see if the transmission could go. It was after this that they lived alone in the mountains, and if not, ignorant in vision. Persons of old, like Nisan and Ra, like Ingan and Rangan, did not live alone. before they attained the way. They were real persons who attained the way, great sages with clear eyes, whose virtuous conduct was great in their time and left their vain for later occasions. You live in the mountains and valleys while neglecting, but while negligently not investigating what you should investigate,

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and not arriving where you should arrive, you'll be right-looking. This is the most severe lack of the spirit of the way. If their eye of the way is not clear and bright, people just practice to train themselves They become followers or conditioned enlightened ones. They will become spoiled and waste seed or not. Spoiled seed meaning they are scorched seed. They cut off the seed in the Buddha. They're for good people.

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having thoroughly and carefully practiced in the monastery for a long time, associating with and inquiring of one who knows, when the great matter is thoroughly clear and you have just about finished clarifying and mastering yourself, to deepen the roots and strengthen the stems for a while, you may say, It is the teaching imparted by the ancient master. But particularly in this one school, the founder, A.H. Dogen, forbade, prohibited, and condemned living alone. This was not to let people get into misleading ways.

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This was to protect people by veering off the path. In particular also, the late master, Ajo, said, My disciples should not live alone. Even if you have attained the way, you should cultivate and define it in a community. Needless to say, those involved in study absolutely should not live alone. Anyone who goes against this rule is not a member of this school. Then Master Angle said, after they had obtained the essence, the ancients would boil rice in a broken-legged pot in caves or lead cuts and sleep in the mountain. 10 years, 20 years, forgetting all about human society forever, forsaken the realm of dust.

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In these times, you cannot pursue to aspire to this. Rather than grow old in the mountain forest, preserving the way for yourself, is it not better to guide people in a non-stead? All the greats and masters of recent ages have all disapproved of living alone, especially since people's faculties and capacities are inferior to those of ancient times. They should just stay in monasteries to practice the fine and master the way. Even a person of old was so heedless that he wrongly indulged in peace and quiet, to the extent that when a new student came and asked him what help, he didn't require what he should have answered.

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Instead, he got angry. But we should. But we know, really, that this is the body and mind called an unharmonized person. If you live alone, apart from your teacher, even if you can preach like Nagarjuna, you'll still live like an indescribably miserable person and call lots and lots of trouble. Dears and comrade, because you have quickly planted the roots of goodness, you have been able to hear the right teaching of Buddha. That is, don't approach human politicians.

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Without wishing to live alone, unencumbered, just progress diligently with the work of the way. single-mindedly pierce through to the source of Dharma. Clarify the truth and gentle relationship with the Jewel that appears every moment without sinking into porn or formlessness. This jewel is found not in some other place of peace and quiet. Togen Zenden said, as you may have heard, the hours are advancing, but it's not that kind of steep.

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More and more I realize that the mountain and forests are excellent for negotiating the work. Moonlight tears at the eyes. The sound of the mountain stream enters the gears. Beyond this, not one moon. Hearing this, people might want to go to the deep mountains and sit by a quiet or even noisy mountain street away from the city. And let the moonlight pierce your eyeball. But Doding Zenji did not mean that.

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He forbade us to live alone. He exhorted us to live in the middle of all sentient beings. To live in the center of all sentient beings. This is where we actually live. We do not live away from them by ourself. We do not keep ourself out and put ourself in a good place to practice. Ourself is at the center of all beings. And there is tremendous dynamic activity all around us. These are the deep mountains. The mountains are chock full of active light and we live at the center.

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The city there and clarifying what it is. We won't be in a rush to make sure I'm not taking some, and we won't turn away the questions of others. There's a wonderful word in Japanese, which I don't even know if I remember right, but I think .

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It means the way it is in the house of some people would have like four or five young chicks. You don't need to let go and look for that kind of situation. And you don't need more. You don't have to run away from those kinds of situations. The way is clarified, of course, here. And this is a new Japanese situation. There's lots of little kids running around here, crawling all the Can you clarify and find a true way to relate all this life all around you?

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Can you, in the midst of real life, put the welfare of all life first? And in that situation, clarify. the Dharma and negotiate the way. Again, looking at the old story, Nagarjuna got a law. But his teacher guided him on to the middle day, so that he could guide us. When we studied him, didn't quite need the opportunity.

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And he really wished to study something really more peaceful, and something that doesn't spur itself quite so much. Even he would like that in the 30 years of time. Without eating, or perhaps I should say, free of the wish to live alone, unencumbered, just progress diligently on the work of the way, the way which is not form, which is not formless, the way of not eating the way. And single-mindedly pierce through the source of the true dharma.

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This is the real oral teaching of the Buddha. They don't say, today, in order to bring out the preceding story, I have a miserable little poem. Did you want to hear it? Did I hear it? Did they say anything? Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where is that poem? Now here it is. The solitary light. Aware space. Is always free in darkness.

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The wish-fulfilling jewel distributes its shiny radiance. The orphan light. marvelously vast that will never darken. The wish-fulfilling jewel shines everywhere. Although it's been said in many times, many ways, now you have it, so please care for it well.

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