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Thank. you....it's good to know there are viewers out there. I haven't posted for 6 mos as I have over a thousand videos on my account. I only post when the urge strikes.

@conley347 I came across your account while searching on how to alchemize the hurt and pain. Don't stop posting. I've enjoyed and learned alot of what I have watched thus far. Greetings from South Africa

@@asheredee At 88, I muse over the question, to I SPEAK my word again? I write my Word on Facebook...but TikTok is interesting. My method is to write an Idea on FB, and then Speak that Idea live on FB and then links to RUclips. TikTok is calling me, I think. I just don't get many followers on RUclips...most at around ten.

I assume you got this on a post in Living Zen where a link to my talk came with Hakuin. I'm not doing any live talks as the urge has not rising to do so. I have a thousand talks on youtube that I have been giving under various titles since. 1015. Wow..how time flies. These talks were my dharma talks, my active Zazen where I just turned on the camera and winged it. This was the only talk where I just read something.

This talk has its own life...going on and going on...I still use I'm OK, the world is OK as my gateway to Zen. I'm Ok, You(the world) is OK is. called samadhi in Zen. where there is no sense of separation between you and the world you experience. There is just experience, not Ok experience or not OK experience. Just experience...The Samadhi of Equanimity...our true face before my world was torrn apart into either bweing OK or Not Ok... What is the OK before my OK was born? Thanks for your response...It's good to know talk is still OK.

I can't fine it either. Unfortunately I don't tag my talks with key words or put there subject in the title. I'm amazed at how many titles thee are. Whoever is doing these talk is very creative. I haven't given any for some weeks now. They come and go, having their own mind and title. Was there something specific about the Heart Sutra that you are looking for? The first thing I do every morning is get coffee, and the second is chant the Heart Sutra. Like my talks, the Sutra is self-generating. Self-generating is a good idea, for it means arousing the mind, the. energy that does not rest on other agents. And this is the Heart Sutra....the Maha Mantra that transmutes everyday experience into gold, or a new way of seeing or knowing, a way that is fresh, innocent and always for the first time. The Zen teacher that activated the Heart Sutra for me was Albert Low and his little book What Am I? I cannot express how transformative discovering this diamond in my life has been. The Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra comes from the Diamond Sutra, diamond meaning it cuts through everything. Sound..sound is what arouses the Bodhisattva of Compassion...what is the sound of the words before the meaning. This is why Sanskrit language is powerful because the english meaning are added, and you can drop into the pure sound and forget the words...you can hear the jazz before the song is added. An Old Pond A Frog leaps PLOP (sound) We chant the Prajnaparamita as if the chant is chanting us...we are carried away by the sound, killed by the sound so sweetly, so lovingly. The first time I listened to the chant, my actual heart, this chakra of being, began to pulse is great throbs of sorrow and joy...Oh...stop..Oh...don't stop...On and on..on and on...my being was held and squeezed like a baker kneading dough. The Tears of Quan Yin....are real...so very real... The sound of the heart sutra sung by Imee Ooi, arouses the Heart from its sleep beneath our thinking mind that fractures and separates Being itself, this Knowing that is the heart of life. So I chant the Prajnaparamita for no reason, not to have that experience again, not to attain anything. Prajna means aroused knowing, and Paramita is across to the Other Shore and the cessation of the suffering of separation. ruclips.net/video/QUzzivYjvRA/видео.htmlsi=KV1Oqspm6ZxZWJKO Stay in touch.

@@conley347 😝

The books and talks by Albtert Low (Montreal Zen Center) introduced me to Chinese Zen and the Koans and writing of the Golden Age of Zen (7-9 OCE), and it shifted my understanding and practice from passive waiting for something to happen, to active, from intellectual zen to the kitchen and pantry everyday mind. It was the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra that gave me open heart massage of great waves of joy and sorrow..Stop...don't stop....oh..stop...don/t and I knew through and through that Prajaparamita...The diamond Surtra is its parent, and the Patriarchs are real. I'm on FB where I write about the Zen of everyday mind. ruclips.net/video/_WhcrVX7Yxg/видео.htmlsi=9Fu0TlGOszD0BXmv

@@conley347 thanks for your reply I actually found your videos from the link on your FB page! We were just chatting yesterday friend!

Oh..no....I know what happened....the Facebook notived me that one of the groups was not accepting my post. so if froze the talk...WTF?...and I closed that and it continued...but the sound thread must have broken...In this was one of most profound talks...Bummer... The universe always affirms me by screwing with me, breaking something. disrupting me.....I know I'm on track when the track breaks and my train is derailed. Thanks for the heads up...there is nothing I can do about it since it was broken at the source. But I got most of it in....The happy ending is yet to come....Another talk?

Laughing out loud here... Well, it was a good talk and you were just wrapping it up. So it's alright. @@conley347

Thank you so much...A great complement.

If you don't like cock tails, don't watch.

Is he black?

@@conley347 No, but he said that there is a slave in the woodpile on my dads side of the family. So technically I am. lol.

Thanks for the tip....If I plan my talks they will take effort...and I won't do them. (BTW I'm not a boomer, I'm 87. I'm old enough for boomers to be my grandchildren....anyway I appreciate your taking the time to tell me how you watch video...You are right...We are all Clink Ons. I will take your advice in hand...My talks are like taking a shit...When I get the urge I run to the camera and turn it on..I never know what's going to come out.

​@@conley347 I watched a good amount of it, but I watch mostly smaller channels. I am a smaller youtuber as well and love seeing channels grow. At 87 you surely have wisdom that I do not have at age 40. I lived in Detroit and Tijuana, so I have some wisdom after that life. Have a good one! I ramble a lot in my videos, but they are videos of me driving tractor...so i ramble to stave off "dead air time".

My videos are happenings, so to speak...I get an Idea in the morning on Facebook, get a title, turn on the camera and let it rip. I have no idea how it is going to unfold. For me this is the practice of Faith Mind...I have faith that the talk will have some direction and discover something I donn't know. That's your your appreciation. @@TrevorStruthers

Koans are dramas preserved for a thousand years from the golden age of Zen (7-9 AD) they are mini-dramas that put a monk's point of view (yours) against the master (the awakening mind). This is a drama or confrontation between the Egoic mind and the awakened mind. A koan is a nut with the sweet meat of awakening inside if you can crack it. But, these hard nuts cannot be cracked by the logical rational mind, like the question you asked, which is a logical question. The monks ask logical questions, and the master points beyond or upstream of logic to a new way of using the mind, the creative way. The koan unlocks your creativity...but you have to come to the realization that the koan cannot be cracked, yet, you stay with it...letting the koan chew you up.

You are welcome!

This is a working mantra, a can operner you can use to Let Go of impediments in the mind, those situations were a tape loop gets going between two faces of the mind. Find the contradiction of bleeding wound in the mind, find on view and say GATE, then find the opposing thought or mind, and say GATE. Then, finding the two viewpoints-I should do this, I want to do that- and say PARAGATE. Then see that both sides of the contradiction are empty...PARASAMGATE......Bodhi Svaha...Oh, what an awakening.... Parasamgate is awakening that is beyond yes or no, right or wrong, good or bad....I AM is an explosion....

Thank you @@conley347

All I know is what I see in the movies. Great movies, great metaphors, our rational secularism has erased the traditional myths/metaphors. Movies are our gurus now. Unfortunately, most don't know how to read movies as stories to wake up by. Instead of arousing vision, they are the way we avoid reality.

Body still kicking, tongue still flapping. Thanks. This talk was a little scattered, my wife says. I didn't know she listened. She often finds something not OK. She's a retired English teacher who. hasn't retired.

Laughing out loud ;-) English teachers NEVER retire @@conley347

Thanks for your comment because it demonstrates an awakening awareness-which is. I'm OK, you'OK- that is always sleeping beneath I'm Not OK and the world is Not ok. You felt it stir, and responded by going back to the video, despite your Not OK surface mind saying this talk is not OK, I'm moving on. You heard the Call and responded. This may seem like an insignificant incident, but I see something much deeper going on, like a waking up of a sleeping giant, a good giant mind you, but a giant who is dreaming he is an insignificant human that feels either he or the world is not OK. You felt the giant stir.... We are so much greater than we think or dream we are. All the fairy tales and myths tell us so, but we think they are just fantasies and not the sleeping giant within. When the giant wakes up, EVERYTHING is OK. Why not, you are a giant.

Thank you....I do my talks from the Urge to talk...and it helps to know someone is out there.

Thanks for the response, and I saw this talk was 4 years ago, or was it 20, or 50? The Smile of Buddha is behind the years, and as I age, (I'm 86), this smile never changes. Who is writing these notes from the Other Side I wonder? Smiling his secret smile and posting notes and talks to be left in the wake of time, the Buddha smiles through my life. Like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, the Smile is here and there, disappearing, appearing, always coming, always going. From the beginning, all beings a Buddha. (Hakun) All beings are the Smile of Buddha.

@@conley347 Yes, Yes, Yes…….but the way you spoke about “The Smile” and as it hit my ear drums a shift in perspective occurred without anything new being introduced and that is on a micro level as each moment comes and goes all kinds of permutations of emotion and thoughts come and go sometimes perplexing us as we grapple with phenomena…..one way of grounding ourselves is to return to the knowing of “not knowing” which is our true face….as this “not knowing” becomes familiar a sense of ease permeates the moment…..and a “Smile” occurs spontaneously by itself inside of us and manifests itself - on our face. Ahhhhhh, that is The Buddha (Awareness) smiling through the lens of recognition.

If you are in Panama I just friended you. While I post talks, I write in Facebook. @@mralexander99

@@conley347 I am not in Panama, that is where I spent my boyhood (6yrs old - 16yrs old)….I very rarely use Facebook so I am not the type to “Friend” on it. I live in San Francisco now, I left Panama 🇵🇦 in 1970 and I have been on “walkabout” ever since. I fell deeply in love with The Buddha and The Dharma in 1997 and have embraced his teachings with all my blood, sweat and tears. Engaging with the Thai Forest tradition of Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Amaro, along with The San Francisco Zen center and Spirit Rock. Recently over the last 5 years I have fallen deeply in love with The Stoics as expressed by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus. Combined with the Persian poets of Haféz, Rumi and Attar mixed in with Nietzsche, Spinoza and Emerson as nutrition for the mind to guide me on as life itself sculpts me into moving in the direction to approach Life as the art of living….i find myself fascinated by zen koans and Hakuin and Dogen🦅

I suggest the study of the works by Albert Low, Zen master of Montreal Zen Center. His teaching of koans has been a revelation in my practice, teaching me how to inhabit the koan, chewing on it, seeing it from every side, turning it over and over until it pops in the mouth like a grape.

Thank You……and that is how I have been practicing with this Koan…from the moment I wake up until I lay down for heavenly sleep keeping the koan close to me…..sitting in Zazen “Mu” is what I keep in mind with me…..it is “Mu” in all sounds, all events such as disappointments, irritations, annoyances…it is all “Mu”…………every delight, joy and surprise is “Mu”……….”Mu” is the fulcrum containing everything, nothing and in between……”Mu” cracks me open revealing that my views, preferences, appetites, wishes and desires are just floating into the mist of life while living each moment, day, week, month…..I can’t say year yet since I picked up “Mu” a few months ago…. I have found Ruben Habitio, Henry Shukman on RUclips and “The Book of Mu” to give me the instruments to probe “Mu”……and I have ventured forth to a zen teacher in Berkeley CA for one day to see who I could find as a one to one teacher…but nothing came of it…..so my eyes and ears are geared towards those being out there who have fallen in love with “Mu” as she works inside of me cracking me open to the vastness of the universe as the “me” fades away it’s grip on my panoramic view of life….and today the RUclips algorithm gave me your video….so here I am🦅

Albert Low, Zen master tucked away at Montreal Zen Center, opened the mysteries of Koan practice, and especially MU, which is called a breath through koan. You cannot begin the practice of Zen until you break through the barrier of MU. But all koans are MU. No, wait...my whole life is MU!. MU breaks through the ice of thinking. MU smiles through the fixed face of my mind. MU is everywhere in the movies. The dance of Zorba, the liberation of Barbie, the Life of PI when he reaches the Other Shore and finds that like Dorothy he never left Oz. . What is MU? What am I? I am MU, both the question and the answer. Check out Albert Low on the Montreal Zen Center. He died a few years ago, but his expositions and talks on Zen has aroused MU in me, the mind that does not rest on anything. @@mralexander99

@@conley347 I just realized that the teachers I mentioned (Ruben Habito & Henry Shukman) that spurred my curiosity on koans and particularly the “Mu” koan are from the same lineage and training of Albert Low….so thanks again for the recommendation ❤️‍🔥

Albert Low got his training at the Rochehster Zen Center under Philip Kaplau and. Yosatani Roshi, where he was awakened and got permission to teach. He went to Montreal and founded the Zen Center there. I've been reading his books over and over and listening to his Teishos for many years now. His teishos are available on the web site, and it has been them that has aroused my mind that doesn't rest on anything....the Prajna in the Diamond Sutra. @@mralexander99

Thank you it encourages me to know there is someone there. When my water breaks, an urge fills me and I must speak. I know not what this c child will be.

Cliff...where are you.. Don't see your talks or posts. Is it FB or you? I neglect to post on your group as it won't except my giffs. Anyway...are you OK

Where have you gone...Are you still posting on Practical Zen?