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Thank you Daishin for this eloquent and important talk 🙏

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That little guy got some real good karma being born in a family with parents like you and sara 🙏 😊

This talk had been superb, really drives home that everything is meditation. I will have to revisit it regularly

Awesome, thank you.

I like going down into my abdomen, but every time I do this I become terribly sleepy. Then I try to bring my awareness up to my head, for example between my eyes, which wakes me up a bit. But it makes me feel slightly unstable to leave my center.

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Ferguson’s is so different because it’s DISHONEST. He’s supporting your sitting cult to sell books. Dōgen lied, he’s the joseph smith of japan and your soto is basically mormonism. Wake up, fraud.

Thank You Daishin for this advice. This is what I exactly do - try not to be afraid to employ slightly different approaches when some challenges appear. 🙏

Soto Zen is akin to Mormonism. Dogen was a megalomaniacal liar, didn’t teach what Rujing taught and started a new buddhistic cult like Joseph Smith. Wake up.

"... The ego is done. We begine at the end" 👌👏That is perfectly said, bowing 🙇

I've just finished the one 20-minutes period of Zazen and short kinhin session as RUclips offered this recently uploaded video. Thank you dear teacher for continuing support us on this Beautiful Path. ❤

“Buddha practices Zazen”! This brief talk was extremely helpful this morning before my sit. Thank you for this upload. I will remember it to help my practice. 🙏🏻

Thank You 🤲

Sit. Study. And Devote. The circle of Dharma explained in less than a minute. It's really inspiring )

Simple, precise and articulated. Thank You 🤲 Your brush left a smiling ☺ trace into my heart.

For me sometimes it’s hard to generate compassion since I have some feelings of things appears as an illusion by the mind.

Hey you mentioned the book about the lay practitioners? Any ideas what the books called? I’d love to check it out! Thanks for all your practice and the content. I’ve really enjoyed it and it’s been really helpful in my own practice 🙏

AN 4.16.157 "Monks, there are these two diseases. What two? Disease of body and disease of mind." "Monks, there are to be seen beings who can admit freedom from suffering from bodily disease for one year, for two years, for three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years; who can admit freedom from bodily disease for even a hundred years. But, monks, those beings are hard to find in the world who can admit freedom from mental disease even for one moment, save only those in whom the asavas are destroyed. [a fully enlightened arahant]"

I realize I can talk with my passed mother as I quilt. How great is that.

Thanks for the Dharma talk, very honest. I have trouble understanding Dogens words a lot of times so its appreciated 🙏

How i can make my body young forever?

Excellent content! ZCLA member 10 years.

Your lighting could be better.

I’m not sure this relates to this talk, however here goes. When my teacher would travel and would get into a conversation with someone and they asked him what he did for a living, his response would be that he was a window washer. I always thought that was funny, but strangely accurate. When it comes down to it, isn’t zazen a form of clearing one’s vision?

Therefore, is every human a nirmanakaya? Thank you

Thanks for a great video, the story of the Buddha and the farmer, which I've never heard before, was a wonderful summary of what the fulfillment of Zazen is!

What you say is very good advice. And maybe it’s not my place to say this, and maybe it’s just me, but you seem to be presenting yourself like someone who is playing the role of a Zen master. Doing this can create a schism between a teacher and a student. I apologize for my arrogance here but if I could advise you on this I would say lighten up just a little. It would help to make you more relatable and less imposing.🙏

I have heard a bunch of explanations of what Shikantaza is, and all of them differ. The one I like the most is just sit. Whatever comes up, just let it go without chasing it. Just be.🙏

If I may ask a question: Can proper and beneficial shikantaza be done by a practitioner unable to obtain a traditional zazen posture on a stool due to physical limitations? Thank you.

I have just read your article and I want to thank you very much for it. When I started with zazen I was always very soon deeply in thought about zazen, and I felt miserable about it because I thought that thinking was not „allowed“ during zazen. But thinking about zazen during zazen was so wonderful! I always had the feeling that within this thinking I got deeper into Zazen than when I just tried to control my breath and thoughts. I was so lucky to have a teacher who encouraged me and said that if thinking helped me to focus then that was a very good practice for me. And now I hear that you too do not damn thinking during Zazen and I am very grateful for that. And yes, feeling and thinking are strongly connected during these periods on the cushion. In exchange I am doing „thoughtless Zazen“ while waiting in the queue in the supermarket. :-)

You are a very heart touching* teacher. Thank you. 🙏 *I don‘t know If this expression exists in English.

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There is no masturbator, only the masturbation??

There appears to be a glitch in the recording, the video freezes about 4:30 in. This happened in the past few videos as well, just fyi

Information in written form is not knowledge I welcome. The knowledge I'm looking for and learn from is all in vibrations.

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There’s a reason you’re saying six minutes isn’t enough time to describe how to practise zazen. You explain the phrase Shikantaza, then go on to describe a wealth of mental activities to do whilst sitting! In which case, it’s not just-sitting, is it. How do you explain Master Dogens phrase, shin jin datsu raku, body and mind have dropped off? If body and mind have dropped off, there’s no one present to direct attention, there’s no one present to notice anything at all! Sitting is to adopt the posture of the Buddhas, and not to do any secondary tasks. Don’t count breaths, don’t focus attention, don’t observe, notice or witness. Don’t try to stop thoughts, or try to stop a wandering mind. Sit as you are and let whatever happens happen without dividing yourself into seen and seer. When all effort stops, the one making the effort has stopped.

I just got out of a rehab, and I'm very grateful to have stumbled upon your channel. This talk helped a lot.Thank you

My experience of mountains walking has been learning with the mountain Teliquin. Teliquin is quite amused by the arrival of the city of Colorado Springs. From the seat of the mountain can be seen the glowing mass of ground based illumination. When witnessed from the mountains perspective this is a wondrous thing to behold. In time spent camping and writing music in Pike National Forest, I have harmonized with the pace of the mountain. As was so eloquently mentioned, the pace of the mountain is so much slower than our built human environment, social value systems and human ways of knowing. The gifts I have received from the mountain are numerous, the first to mind is the joy of climbing the Manitou Incline. The trail is 2,768 steps and climbs 2000 ft in elevation in less than a mile. I have learned from the trail to take life in steps. Eventually the steps fade away and I find the space of quiet eternal peace. Life is no more about ends and beginnings, winnings or losings, the significance of my life becomes less until I have found that the appreciation of beauty and service to others, are the things that matter most to me. The second lesson I will mention in this collection of words, was a conversation I heard in the deep night by a group of owls. In the conversation I detected the ancient society of owls. I could feel a depth in their communication that was far older than any language of humankind. With a resonance and completness that seemed unfathomable. I felt myself not as witness out side of the circle but somehow, I also knew this language myself. This is the darma. Blessings of Bear Clan, Miekell Cottonwood

Brilliant.

What gives you the right to say that you can teach ZEN correctly? You can’t even wear your monk clothes correctly. You are supposed to show 三色. You probably don’t know what this means so let me tell you. You’re supposed to show three colors starting with your white undergarment, second layer, being your kimono, and your third layer being your Houe or Daie. I don’t like to use the word hate, but I hate fakes!

One of the most wonderful descriptions of shikantaza. All the beauty of zazen lies in this Zero. Thank you so much. 🙏

A "new" mystic worth studying for the Trinitarian spirituality is Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta... she also speaks of nothingness and emptiness in a special way... many of her entries in her volumes speak of Jesus as sentry to her thoughts... a mystical theologian ..fr joseph iannuzi made a doctoral dissertation on her writings... 36 volumes on the book of heaven... have been a zen sitter for almost 20 to 30 years

Thanks you, in six minutes you explained more about zazen then most videos do even in a hours time.

Thanks pal !!!!......good book, "the inescapable love of God", by Thomas Talbot

Thank You, Daishin, dear Teacher. I really love this guided video! Although I practice zazen for a quite a long period of time, I find deeply inspiring and helpful this 30 minutes video. I like to sit and to do kinhin with You 🙏 With Metta. Best regards!

I do hope the flame will never come so that the waiting will never end. (It really got me - thank you so much for sharing.)

I would very much like to read the whole poem of Keizan. Can you please tell me where I can find the text? If I knew the title I could perhaps find a german version. I like this series very much, I have heard it twice and am sure I haven‘t got all of its treasures, so I will surely listen to it a third time. Thank you very much! 🙏

The mind expanding and contracting like the breath - that is a wonderful and very beautiful description. I am afraid that during the next weeks I will expand over this thought. 😊 What I like most about Shikantaza is that it is so very beautiful. I can‘t explain it, but that is my main feeling. Thank you very much.