in your three actions of body, speech, and mind, the entire phenomenal world becomes the Buddha's body, and the entire sky turns into enlightenment. Because of this, all those who meet with you and live with you will obtain this Buddha virtue and will be inconceivably helped by Buddha's guidance. Splendid and inconceivable. honored followers.

[01:19]

Anything else you'd like to offer at this time? I would like to offer my vows to you as an expression of the Buddha nature. The last two words you used, something inconceivable, what was the first one? Splendid. Splendid and inconceivable. Radiant and inconceivable. Buddhist guidance is splendid. Yet inconceivable.

[02:24]

Yes, inconceivable. You can conceive of it, but that's not it. I mean, you know where my mind goes when you say inconceivable, right? I don't know where your mind goes. It goes to endless possibilities. It goes to, it goes to utter terror. It goes to splendid and delicious. But you know, that inconceivable thing is so amazing. um i mean for me it just it kind of covers all the bases and you know and that it is splendid is well it's inconceivable but it's also marvelous um

[03:42]

And, you know, I'm sitting here falling asleep this last period of zazen, of course dreaming. Yet, that too is... And I have to trust that. I do trust that. I choose to trust that. How is it practiced? It's practice because I see it happening. And it's happening. I watch it, and it points to, well, at one point, the dreams, you know, I could very clearly identify a characteristic of those dreams. Want some feedback? Sure.

[04:46]

If you observe it, if you look at it, you alienate yourself from it, and then it's not practice. But if you look at it and then make it an homage to Buddha, It's not it. That's the practice. It's that you're using it. That's the practice. Appreciating it. Appreciating it and giving it. Right. Things themselves are not practice. The dreaming of it in and of itself is not practice. No. The dream is given to you and you're given to the dream. That's the practice.

[05:47]

But if you just look at the dream without realizing that the dream's been given to you and you're given to the dream, then you miss the practice. The practice isn't the things, it's the way you are working together. So when you see something, I don't call that practice, Practice is the way you're seeing and the thing are given to each other. Acknowledging them, maybe it would be. Acknowledging them and acknowledging their generous relationship, and wanting that generous relationship. It's slippery. Yes, of course. And subtle. We don't say everything is practice. Even if someone's being cruel, I don't say it's practice. But also if someone's being kind, I don't say it's practice.

[06:49]

Unless they make it practice by making it go their way. and also understanding that there's no other Buddha way than that enactment. Then it's practice. But it's slightly different to say everything is practice from saying we must make everything practice. Because if we don't make everything practice, we miss the way everything is practicing. But the way everything is practicing is not the thing by itself. because nothing's by itself. Everything's helping other things. Everything's supporting the whole universe, and supported by the whole universe. So to look at it without making that looking at the thing an enactment of Buddhadharma, we missed how the thing is enacting the Buddhadharma, and how the thing is enacting the Buddhadharma is that it's doing together with the practice.

[08:01]

And noticing that? No, not noticing it. It's inconceivable. You can't notice it. You can notice it, but that's not the practice. But to give your noticing, to make your noticing, which is your mental activity, to make that the expression of the Buddha body, then making it the expression of the Buddha body is the practice. Right. Okay. So let me throw out another word here. Awareness. The Buddha body is the ritual enactment of the way it actually is the Buddha body. And the ritual enactment and actuality are not true. Form, or even a dream, is a form too.

[09:07]

Or a traditional form, those are not the practice. Because a traditional Zen form, unless you make that the enactment of the Buddha way, is a dream. A dream or a traditional form that you donate to the Buddha body enacts the actuality of the Buddhist practice. But it's inconceivable. Inconceivable. Your wishing to give it is not inconceivable, it's conceivable. I can conceive of giving what I am doing right now to the Buddha way. I can conceive of using my speech and my thinking and my interest, I can conceive of making these expressions of the Buddha body. but the Buddha body is inconceivable.

[10:11]

But when I conceivably offer my conceivable mind actions, as an expression of the Buddha way, I contribute in that way to the realization of the entire world being the actual Buddha practice, and that's inconceivable. All this happens, the actuality happens in unconstructedness and stillness and silence. Inconceivable. With all those possibilities you're talking about, including fear. But fear has inconceivable possibilities. It can be marvelous. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay.

[11:14]

Around we go. Around we go. Yeah. Pretty close to Einstein. Is it like real close? Like four minutes. Four minutes to lunch. Four minutes to lunch. Please come for a four-minute date with Buddha. First, I want to thank you, all of you also too. Did you hear it? Could you say it louder? They didn't hear you. Okay, sorry. I just wanted to thank you first, and all of you also. Can you hear her now? Yes. And I want to share something, and also I just wanted to ask you.

[12:21]

When I make the walking meditation, I invite my grandmother to do it with me. Wonderful. Thank you. And then I just remember she passed away. I just remember when she was walking, she was loving to put his hands in the back. And then I just started to put it in the back. And my question is, it is okay if I broke the rules? Because normally I see everybody just putting it like that. And I don't know, it's okay. Okay, I think it's marvelous that you broke your rules, but it's not okay. But it's better than okay. So, yeah, your grandmother came to visit. That's wonderful. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you.

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