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Secesiune, bineinteles. Cum altcumva?

After break Fortress, fat lady plays harpsichord. ;)

in past i haven’t understood that, because I was full. Now I know, that was o.k and it was not to change, by doing nothing. I had to go threw things, to understand. Now I understand just be and seek nothing. But thats not forever and not always. Thats a part of being, a good part, same as the other.

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Abbott Moho I just watched half of your video with Tim Freke asking the meaning of life. It reminded me of something my Abbott once said to me ‘ stop reading stop trying to figure it out just meditate if you do that for long enough all your questions will be answered ‘ I did not believe him at the time, personally the intellect was one of the biggest obstacles for my meditation…

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Tim Freke has managed to rationalise suffering as ultimately meaningful. No religious dogma is based on primitivism. To see the whole process of suffering and thus be free of it, is psychological "progress", is freedom from selfish evil.

honest question, I live in Japan as foreign student. Does someone know if it is possible to join a monastery and practice meditation on weekends? Or for a a couple weeks like during vacations? Appreciate the comments.

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I wonder what happens after 3 years. It is hard to imagine ever going back to society after this.

Abbott Muho, for me personally it has been extremely refreshing to have much of what I previously believed so many years to be so wonderfully overturned, with regards to Buddhism Practice and enlightenment. It’s taken many years to find teachings like this to cut through the crap and bullshit. Your translation of Kodo Sawaki Quotes has now become my daily practice. ‘Good for nothing’ ‘Let zazen do zazen’ ‘give up the idea of enlightenment’ feel like the missing pieces of a jigsaw that needs deconstruction thankfully. How about having some form of subscription, for interested students thank you so much. どうもありがとうございます 🙏🏼

Thanks for the talk. Coincidentally, I ordered this book from Jamazon (my nickname for Amazon Japan) today. I've been watching videos about Antaiji, and Muho's talks in the past few weeks. Before my daughters were born, way back in about 2006, I did loads of training and took tonsure on Mt Koya more out of curiosity than anything else--Esoteric Buddhism, Mantrayana, ooooohhh secrets, even the Japanese don't know anything about it--but in the end it all became about paying ridiculous amounts of money to the head temple and religious bureaucracy and I said no thanks. I don't know why or how but Zen and Zazen have crept into my life recently. I live halfway between Kyoto and Osaka.. would be interested in joining a Sunday sit.

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This timing is very great. Thank you Muho Roshi. Tomorrow my study group will discuss this book. It’s been very important to me.

Die Fehler von Dogen und Sawaki nachzumachen ist nicht Zen, es ist das Ende von Zen. Zen fängt erst an, wenn jeder eigene Schritte tut, die niemand anders zu tun braucht.

Wonderful talk Muho, as always, thank you.

Thanks a lot to both of you! 🙏

That was fun. The book is necessary, especially for American buddhist stuck in the way of “nice feelings”

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Soto from Dogen. Rinzai from Lin Chi.

Wonderful, thanks for sharing.

Great discussion. It's interesting the life journey we are all on. There's that element of doubt of commitment and betrayal. What if you commit yourself to something, is it right, how can I know, until I reach the end? I studied painting very seriously, the tutors seemed like gods to me (they knew so much). Of course now many years after I see it in the round, more completely. I see it's limitations, as well as it's virtues and how doing one thing intensely makes you beholden to it too. In the NHK documentary the young guy Itei said he was leaving, I think because he could see himself kind of institutionalised, staying in the monastery and not wanting to leave. It would be interesting to see what he now things about that idea. Maybe the zazen, Antaji experience is more that forcing you to think: what am I doing here, what am I doing with my life? Maybe it's there catching fish for a living 10 hours a day or cooking but it isn't easy to access because you are less or not aware of it. That's to say work gives you the automatic sense of purpose, dignity, which might be wrong. Wasn't it the Danish philosopher (you all know him) who said "life must be lived going forward but can only be understood looking backwards." I think that's the great koan of life.

It changes mental patterning over time. Brain retraining, so to speak.

Beautiful life

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Guten Abend Muhō, ich habe mich beim Anschauen Deines Videos gefragt, ob auch ein Zenmeister wie Du mit jahrzehntelanger Praxis und Erfahrung manchmal doch mit Wehmut und Sentimentalität auf diese Zeiten zurück schaut und sich, wenn auch nur für einen Moment, diese zurück wünscht - obwohl wir es ja normalerweise besser wissen sollten. Vielen Dank für den Rückblick und einen angenehmen Abend trotz des vielen Regens! 🙏🙏💡

Heute mal wieder etwas aus der Konserve 😇 🙏🍄☕️

Great documentary thank you all! 🙏

Why the age limit? there are lots of motivated „Oldies“ and they sure know what they want

Nothing is hidden everything is here we are making it difficult because we stick to things that are impermanent. Stick to anything but. THAT

People take robes to find happiness. People disrobe to find happiness. There is nothing to find, stop chasing. Wherever you go you will find conditions you do not like and that will not like you.

Shakyamuni's method of zazen under the Bodhi tree seems to have been : face all desires, thoughts and fears that appear, without succumbing to them.

If you don't care about Karma points anymore, thats because you have been reborn with better Karma. Remember that the self dies and is reborn many many times within a lifetime. So those crazy Therevadins were probably right in a way : avoiding selfish evil in this instance leads to less karmic baggage in the next.

i am monke now

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I was never a student of Zen Buddhism. However, I have been involved and practising for years. The instruction of good for nothing has helped me a lot. thank you Abbot Muho You are one of the very few rare modern masters, it’s in your instruction. It’s in your videos, most of all it’s in your laugh… I gratefully bow.🙏🏼

Serious question (not sarcastic): Why don't you zazen practioners starve yourselves off on the cushion, actually dying there? What motivates you to eat, drink, work at the temple, have disciples, study, and all those things that are beside zazen? If life and death are the same, why do you keep choosing life every day? Does not doing all those things implicate that your "gaining mind" is alive and you are "playing the game" living as zen practioners? Thanks

365 x 4 = 1460😊

timely discussion as i listen, now one month from the selection....(election?)

Wonderful, I will try and join in! Thank you!

Konnichiwa Abbot Muho how do you pass on your Zen Knowledge to your wife and children without evangelising? Is it simply through every day interaction or formal Zazen and prayer? What advice do you have for serious Buddhist practitioners and their family? Arrigatto 🙏🏼

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Also monks need to eat, just like everybody else. They need to pee, and poo, and wash and sleep and breathe, just like everybody else. So sitting alone doesn't make sense. Work is needed to live.

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Nice documentary. Very thoughtful provoking.

If you are able to sit, that's an accomplishment, because the majority are simply exhausting themselves by endless seeking and achieving what only lasts for a few moments and beginning a gain. Worse, you get to the end of your life and see all the time that you squandered as my father did.

If you are able to sit, that's an accomplishment, because the majority are simply exhausting themselves by endless seeking and achieving what only lasts for a few moments and beginning a gain. Worse, you get to the end of your life and see all the time that you squandered as my father did.

To have a quiet, peaceful, orderly, and good life, isn't that enough? A life with few wordly cares, few wordly possessions, no drama, no egoic battles with anyone, not daily being projected upon by someone who can't cope with their issues, isn't that enough? If you can watch the insanity and not be consumed by it, isn't that enough? While I feel the pull of seeking, chasing, desiring like anyone else, but when I step outside of that and look clearly, such a life free from that is a blessing and he who has it is fortunate.