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January 8th 1984, Serial 01810B
The talk explores the significance of simple communication and the value of conveying understanding in uncomplicated ways over profound but ambiguous exchanges. It emphasizes the Zen teaching that true communication and understanding often occur on straightforward levels rather than complex ones, and highlights the recurring theme within Buddhist philosophy that practical guidance on living life is central, rather than abstract theorizing.
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Zen Parable (Unnamed Story): A recount of a simple lesson by a Zen teacher, illustrating the importance of foundational, clear communication over complex teachings.
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Buddhist Philosophy: Reinforces that the core of Buddhist teachings often concerns everyday life guidance rather than abstract thought.
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Greek Mythology Reference: The story includes a brief mention of Venus and Cupid, drawing parallels between mythological relationships and human interactions.
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Buddha and His Disciples: There is a reference to the transmission of Buddha's teachings from Mahākāśyapa to Ananda, underscoring the importance of continuity and honoring traditional teachings.
These references serve to illustrate how straightforward communication and practical living are deeply interwoven with both Zen and broader philosophical teachings.
AI Suggested Title: Zen Simplicity in Everyday Wisdom
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This morning, it's nice to meet the stories that I told before, and we thank you for, in this initial interview, when I talked to you. Some of you have done before. You forgive me, just want me to tell us yet. But I'm bringing it up this morning because it's one of the things that in my life, one of the things that's happened to me that I keep popping up again and again in various contexts and showing each time a new aspect. A new aspect.
[01:04]
A simple, concrete experience that impresses me, impresses me, has become, in this course, my craft is 10, 12, 14 years after it happened. And some of you heard the story before, so you may be able to remember the context I brought it up in another time. You can see that in the research at home. The story that I'm thinking of is, again, three years ago. It took place in an airplane in March 1971. I was flying through. Portland, Oregon, with the cellular.
[02:09]
We're going to leave three college. We'll get socks, and then we're going to see if they shoot. Am I talking loudly enough to put you in the bathroom? All right, shortly after we took off, he said, I'm going to teach you how to count. I'll teach you. [...] And guess what?
[03:34]
So he said that to me. So I said, my first time is good. I went through it a few times, and so finally I took the story, the story, the story, the story. And then he went to sleep. [...] So I started again, and he went to the police again.
[04:45]
And I stopped, and he walked out. And he said, sorry. So I started again, and fell asleep at him, but I didn't stop him. So, the 300 miles, I kept staying with the vehicle. And what I mentioned before, I'll make an example today. At that time, when we were doing it, I thought to myself, I don't have great expectations, but I was about 23 years old.
[05:49]
I was 25, 26, and I was in West Bain and San Monk. I've been in college for many years, graduate school for many years. had some ideas about what a Zen teacher was like. So I was amazed that here I was with an outstanding teacher who was standing this time teaching me to come to children. It seemed not exactly a waste of time, it was just amazing to feel that. Why wasn't the teacher with some power in the garden? A teacher used to I told him to teach him. I heard him to teach him. I heard him say, he's the only thing to teach him. But now in the hands, I tell him something closer.
[06:52]
I can't do any kind of things. But today I'd like to, the thing I'd like to emphasize, the thing that occurred to me today about me is that As you can tell by the story, the topic was so simple that there was a possibility that what media communication was very, very straightforward. People told me something, I said it, but the media communication was, it's not the media communication, but the media communication was, he wanted me to say that all over the portal. And I got it, I got it. It's put a few times around. It's so simple that it's a few times about it. I can sort of get the idea and you want it and you see it. In other words, today, the thing I see about it, like I was saying, is that a matter of caring, it is more important to them to communicate than what to communicate something
[08:05]
And by myself, sometimes, if I'm in a car or in a class or something, or one-to-one instruction, I sometimes think, oh, to be good, today is something very simple. I could be very deep. I could be very interested. But what I sometimes do when I think of someone who's an expressive kind of thing is that we convey something very profound, but it doesn't go anywhere. No one did. And my feeling about substitution work was she would rather communicate with me on a very low level.
[09:07]
low level, but at a very primitive, simple level. We prefer to communicate. Then not communicate at a very high level. And sometimes I talk to people on a very high level, and it's not really clear. And sometimes people talk to me and say, I don't know what they're talking about. I can tell it's curious. I can tell it would be wonderful if you knew what they're talking about. But in fact, And while I'm talking to you, I want you to see what I'm saying. It's so brilliant. When I told that story, I thought we were seeing it. It helped me to join with us. Now my family thought, you've already been talking to me. In fact, I think I've gotten the end of philosophy of this simple doctrine here.
[10:29]
Buddhism is not a great philosophy. However, in Buddhist philosophy, most of it and you can see quite quickly. Most of Buddhist cloths were actually talking about how to live. It's actually giving some guidance on how to live our lives. And some Buddhist cloths, it looks like it's purely mental, intellectual, Even that, if you look at it closely, it's really funny about how to live. And while I'm talking to you now, now that I just told you, I wonder, are these words something you're talking about with me?
[11:36]
Here's what I've said so far, something that you can see. You can feel that touching it real quick. Come, come, you know. I mean, it's kind of difficult situations, I think it's like, but I'm saying, today I'd rather say something that might have been seen, even though it's not that interesting.
[12:57]
It's something that's very interesting to me. I think it's, I'm kind of pulling a bit, Come on, you have to make sure you put some here. This one put some here, exactly, just do it. Well, I definitely put them in our time, not like you to increase But it's something that's interesting to me, nice to me, at least it might be considered. It might be like considered. But it's like considered. Someone told me at Kathahara,
[14:06]
He was trying to help me. He looked in my head and said, I didn't hate you at this big temple, said temple in the past. I tell the monk that I'm not going to change against the grave. I forget. You really cannot change against the grave. You really cannot change against the grave. You can't [...] change against the grave. We found these, uh, oriental heads, you know, with black hair, long black, numbness of black hair, ticked black hair. When you cut it, it gets tiny, but it's often the blue. It gets tiny to these bones. Just say you don't do that. And I said to the guy who called me, I said, are you trying to meet up because of my experience?
[15:20]
And he said, yeah. I thought, well, I need a thing because you can try and raise an eye like this. And he said, yeah. I said, I need a thing because this is really quite alarming right now. I think it's probably, it's actually long. He says, he felt it. He said, oh, I need a thing. I hadn't been sure yet. He said, but trying to. I think that's a good job. I think it's a good job. I think it's a good job. You know why I think I have that movement, that you don't have the same movement today? Because they teach it. But it's a really nice job. But then I thought to myself, I said to him, I know why.
[16:25]
I said, you know why I have to throw it to you? You know how much that would let my head shine? And a good lot of fun. That's what I thought. Yeah. In other words, the connection between feeling and feeling is better. How do you see it? Like I just found a photo. In other words, the connection between dreams. What's happening? Isn't it? You got anything? [...] Put together, it's kind of a different set up. I had one of them to do that. Now I'd like to get close talking to him.
[17:34]
And see if he could do that in this. It's easy to get close talking to him. How can I be close talking to him in a way that's not Well, the other day, a couple of years ago, I was looking up the word ridiculous. One word I looked up was, I looked up the word, planar. Planar has to do, come from Latin, or maybe something like chandelier. In other words, planar has something to do with be famous for us. community of good people. And in this book, in this book, particularly in the paper that, and it had an information about predicates, what predicates, you've got four different, five different ways we predicate people in the community.
[18:54]
You can't put it in any category. So we say it's planned by exaggeration. To say something is this, it's planned about what I do. To say it doesn't exist, it's planned
[19:59]
But I'm your estimation. To think that it exists and of knowledge is planned there by contemplation. And to think that neither of the people of knowledge is planned there by human beings. These are the four basic learnings to explain this. So what we're trying to do is to meet things as our life. It means to meet things without sort of things. You can't do it.
[21:00]
Both are getting shared in a way. In other words, it's a mean, it's a shame. It's planned there, whatever it is, whatever it is related to, planned it by putting it into any of these categories. We developed some kind of practice, our team being related with ourselves and with others by putting our differentiator in place to look at what things need to be done. That's what the Buddhist philosophy intended for youth is. Someone said to me, maybe I'm dead.
[22:42]
And I'd like to tell you, too. If I tell you, too. Sometimes I want to tell you, do these people out and tell me these things. Maybe they need to tell me, so I'll tell people out. Because then after lecture, they have to say, oh, that isn't it. You're kind of embarrassing people. But I don't tell you the people out from you. And this person said, in my relationship with you, I want to honor part of me that is you. He said, you want to honor the people, honor the people. So in various ways, it's honest about the pain. It's possible to have a pain and not say anything about it, but it may be that the reason why I don't say anything about it is because I don't honor it enough, I want to put it aside.
[24:06]
And I know if I have pain and I let you think that pain is what it means. If you bring that pain up, if you fertilize that pain, feel felt and then so I can get it too. It will tell me that you couldn't. So sometimes she has not told me, who has not brought up the pain in people. Period. Who has looked at me. Who has not brought it up. Now you feel just to let yourself in all those things present. But to not bring this pain up is not to honor this pain. On your experience, that not honoring this pain, either that you've had at home or in a relationship, not honoring that pain is kind of thickness.
[25:12]
But the thickness And if you know that you bring that up and it's the face of process of them, well, you may not want it, but you may feel that That one occurred to me. And now that was the first thing that we've seen. And they then retaliate. And so don't be somebody trying to stop it at home. She feels that she's so necessary to have her to say respect. She has to be honest with her experience. That you have to do it. Even though it's just to be a certain other circuit.
[26:13]
Even though If you have a pressure, you will push it back. For pain, if you're honoring your pain, you become more successful. I wouldn't know you'd have it. You may experience pain, you [...] may experience pain. Now, if I think about it, I think that he, in his own way, has come upon a kind of new way, new way to, of medication on the start to treat the person. A modern version of medication on the start to treat the person. In conjunction with this, I found a mist, a wonderful mist, a mist of arrow to cover.
[27:33]
In that mist, you see, the babies look like a little bit of that, you know. But the day is warm, when you fight, when it isn't hurt, when you look at the job, They deal with two people living on earth. And our temple, all over Greece, dedicated to the work of the students, the beautiful people. But through the time of the purpose of fighting, people who worked their fighting, one of them worked their way. They weren't going to the Venus camp. And they were going to go and fight. So Venus wanted to fight them all. Then she sends her son, Eric, to kill, and took kill. But when he talks about it, he tells if he didn't want to kill.
[28:38]
And he got married. But to marry her in the dark, because she didn't want her to know who he was. But she might go out and his mother find out there's a ghost. So he took her off from Jacob's house. He did nothing. And he only met her in the dark. He never, he's never turned the light on. And he was holding it. And he was holding it up for it. And he was a kid. But then, for sisters, fighting sisters, the courage her to find out that you. Feel cool if I did not do it. It seemed like a monster falling in. Let's find out. So one night, about 2001, and brought it over to look at their hubby.
[29:48]
And if you put the light through it, it weren't too tall that you saw him. He was so shocked. how beautiful the brother was. But she finally gave me picture stuff in one of his head. It's your blood. It's still boiling. And then for some days they changed it. She woke up and So anyway, there's no one story about all the connections there in order to get them together. Very, very unusual, you know, that all things lost in place.
[31:02]
The one thing I'm pointing out now is that they hurt each other. And we hurt each other. We [...] hurt each other. come and have a relationship like that. There will be a simultaneous injury to both of them. And when they saw too hard and injure each other, they expect to win. They run away out of the field. And a lot of it is just like a kid. But when you get back together and get back together, it moves. The relationship To honor you see them, it's really good. It's a good part of what you're talking about to do.
[32:06]
And to the extent, it keeps going higher and higher levels, but another thing you keep going on is to literally just keep it alive. If you ask me, if they respect it, if they respect it, if they let you put it together. But again, I'm going on this. Okay. I don't really like to put it, but I didn't take it. But you don't need to hide that thing. It just looks like that thing. It looks like one. The other thing about this film is not here. And I don't believe I thought it was good.
[33:11]
The love you started from the end, and how to draw away from the film, which is good. So we had part of a statement when we were nearing the light, when we were nearing the next day. But we felt a lot of it. We [...] felt a lot of it. Whenever we try to show the students' eyes and eyes in the light, they always get good, good crunch. We took good things and consequences.
[34:16]
Anyway, to have that, to have that hard and hard play to do that. Like that, you know, mountain jet cartoon. where uh where he is both mutt and death on the street land and they're looking down at this island and the clothing comes over and he says what are you looking for? and he says can I watch? did you lose it here? and he said no he locked it up the street and he thought he'd like that again So, in our western section, and I think also in G.C., everybody wants to get it clear.
[35:22]
Everybody wants to get it cleared up and know what's going on. Since it's not bad, you get the way to kill. You won't find out. We want to get into the realm of everything we take on. This is this. We want to get into the realm of everything we take on. That's the right kind of problem. They're going to just involve themselves in the life. Like the last problems. And let me know, I'm indulging myself in the light, and if I'm in the light, then right in the light, there's dark. I think, take that close off a little bit. If it applies to my tendency, I always get the light to get things to melt in. And I have to pick myself. I know I know. When I go for the light, the darkness is right for me.
[36:24]
And if you think you're just going to the light, it's going to be all this. You're not going to find the wall. And you're going to ban it. And you're going to touch the part of your life. And if you go for the light and know that that's just part of the world, you feel? And know the darkness is right around you. You get ready? Here you go. Holy thing. And then own thing. Right in light, there's darkness. But don't try to see it at all. And right in the darkness, there's light. Right in the darkness, there's light. But don't try to compromise light. Right in the darkness, there's light. But you can try to feel it.
[37:24]
You can try to feel it. You just go. It's the most important part of communism. But it's okay, because, again, the more time you go around, the more you feel. So if we have pain, I was talking to a pregnant lady two days ago. And he was talking about how William, with Chet, he had another baby a while ago. And with Chet, he was getting a knuckleball on the church day, so he could start doing a couple of things that he liked to do in fact, specifically.
[38:25]
He liked to throw a cop. He was just trying to be able to throw a cop to do. And he knows that when the baby comes, that you know you could do that. You just couldn't do it on a bad basis. So, one of my 13 responses we got was, it kind of felt, it was kind of unlikely. These prompts were quite weird. Well, you can get a bunch of the customers that they say. You can blind me. and then you go to a park. I told you that's a problem. I never know what people know in that country. The real, the farm is really easy to say. The farm has been really not taken.
[39:25]
It's really not as real. It's got fish, but it isn't a fish. In these cases, I'm at a farm and it felt only a problem when you want to do something with interference. If you want to pop, and it's a baby that bonded you off that, and your tires don't pop. And then that's in. So I thought, oh, I'll fly this thing with a quick control. Only the things. Honor the things that are alive in that situation. They want you to go apart and both the types of things.
[40:28]
And you can't stop. And you can hear you. If we honor the things, we do another thing. If we don't honor the things that are alive in that situation, The honor very transparent. You have to consult. I have to consult. What do you need to consult? Only I know what we truly respect are. It's a whole of you. And I want to tell you that we are being respected.
[41:28]
You have to look to yourself. I mean, people can't tell you, but you have to thank God for yourself. And you are One of the things that I would suggest to look for was how quickly you can read it. So, when I was thinking about who did you use it? The idea that when someone comes to loading you take low tax like that. So one of the same stories There was a dialogue between Buddha's first disciples and Buddha's second Mahākāsaka, which would put the fact of Nāyāna. One after that is Anāna. Anāna is a Buddhist.
[42:30]
But Buddha died in this world, he could transmit the dharma to the nāna. He translated the dharma to Mahākāsaka, and Mahākāsaka translated to Nāna. So the story about the transition is down between Ma'akata and Ananda, what can we say? Ma'akata is so true going to grab it. There's Ananda stairs. Ananda. Ananda stairs. Yes. Enjoy it now. Bear. Thank you. Ananda says, yes. We'll pull the flag up, yes. We'll pull the flag up, yes. Outside of Suri Temple, there's a flag on special occasions.
[43:32]
We're inviting you to move to this flag. Okay, this is the end of it. Oh, they've applied. It's already happened. They've applied to the new thing, yeah. That's what I call it. That's how, that's one of the way you look at it when you're on it, you're on it, you're on it. When you look at it, when [...] you look at the end of the dream, went away on a retreat from what he found was, that he honored his faith. He taught his faith. When he first wrote, and he recognized it when he first wrote, he could do it. But if he didn't recognize it when he first wrote, there was a plague in the compound with the difference.
[44:44]
experience that many of us have in the world is to honor and recognize the thing you have in your body and your soul. If it hurts the right, you can develop the relationship after. But if you let it run along for a while, and if you know that you don't honor it, and finally it just comes to the natural experience. So I like the question. It's not so bad. And dogs, in front of me in the office home, dogs are out of this place. I don't think they can get me.
[45:44]
I said, you know, I'm just scared. I'm really scared, you know. But he's a little tiny, like chicken root. Not so often. He was like, oh, chicken eat is just scared. Tiny root ball. One time I was going to the doctor's office. The doctor said, you're running from my tap and walk away. Just to run. Way by way. It was amazing. Then my sister got a dog. Then we took a little puppy, you know, and we fucking grew up.
[46:49]
And I grew up with the puppy. So, finally, there was this cue, and they opened them up when they entered the house. Just cue, you know. And he had a lot of bad hurtful. You know, hormones. And sometimes my friends would come to the house, you know. My friends weren't afraid at all. They'd come to the house. They didn't get afraid at all. What I was going to say. Because I was better. I knew that. I knew how to say. No. But if I hadn't grown up with that dog, I'd still get better. There was something about growing up. If you honor your pain. From the time of the pup. When you grow up with it. We can live with it.
[47:50]
It doesn't mean it's your wife. You can live with it. It still changes. It doesn't go away. It isn't like it's already happening now.
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