Reminds me of how if during the morning tea ceremony Zen Master Suzuki Roshi would either make coffee or even use warm coca cola keeping the tradition no matter what. He was teaching his students it's the spirit behind it and this master embodies the spirit of Zen. Thnx Lama 🙏❤️
Alex coffee, do you enjoy the coffee, Alex coffee? Yes, I enjoy the coffee, my fine butler, very much. Alex coffee, I am glad you enjoy the coffee, Alex coffee ☕
this is how i brew chinese tea, ceremonially. to think of doing it for coffee too is very exciting. a whole new world of sacred experience has opened to me. thanks so much for this!🙏🙏
@@ultimatemeaning It is my 79th on Wednesday the 16th October and I have decided to gaze at our own Tibetan monastery to celebrate mine and Aimilianos' birthdays. Om! 🌈
This was so satisfying. I love how he was so immersed in the making of that coffee. Reminds me of my grandma and how one can be so mindful even in everyday activities :) . Thank you 🙏
Once, a university professor went to visit a well-respected Zen Master to learn about Zen. The Master first invited him to sit for a cup of coffee. The professor sat down and started talking about Zen. The Master quietly prepared and poured the coffee. When the coffee was filled to the cup’s brim, he kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s full! No more will go in!” blurted the professor. “The same with your mind. How can I teach you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
Coffee dripper: the zen master's choice! I was half-expecting for him to grind the beans by hand too, but I have to admit I can respect an electronic grinder
I would be very interested, how you view the necessity of returning to a sense of self after experiencing anatta, no-self? There are practitioners that advocate a "mind with no center", staying within a deconstred sense of self. But this doesn't sound to me like healthy approach for people who want to stay active in society. Isn't it necessary to return to a sense of self? Would love to hear your opinion on that :) Thank you!!
Yeah, in many ways this question is non sequitur in terms of the Buddhist teachings, because no self isn't a philosophic tenet but the existential truth that no phenomena possess fixed identity. We cling to the notion of a self that is a mere fallacy, and if one were to realise the truth of this then how could one then return to delusion (this is taught to be possible for Arhats with remainder BTW but they do not fully realise no self in the context of the Mahaya where this statement appears) Further whether or not you advocate for a "mind with no center", the real question is "does mind have a centre. A question that is addressed in the mind instructions of the Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings. Thanks for sharing 💚💖💖
Similar, but I roast coffee as a hobby and I find the ritual of it all deeply centering. Each batch requires an attentiveness to your starting conditions and the temperature you're roasting at, guiding it through all the stages of getting it up to temperature, the first 'crack', and then guiding it to where the roast should end (before, during, or after second crack). Each time slightly different than the last. The whole experience showed me how important ritual is. Having something you can 'flow' through and have some tangible totem at the end just helps me feel human.
@@ultimatemeaning it elates me to know that it is not a violation of precepts to drink coffee, I am a self taught engineer in the fields of electronics and programming, coffee is almost as important as the blood in my veins for me!
As someone who doesn't meditate as much as I should, I found accidentally that making my morning coffee is a form of meditation. His technique is flawless and deliberate, but he'd yeld better results with a burr grinder rather than a blade grinder, either manual or electric. Great video anyway
Yeah someone else mentioned that but usually monks are given things or get them second hand from another monk as a present. But I guess if he went to Seoul he could find such a thing?
From the beginning of the video, I wanted to ask you the same question, if you practice martial arts too as a buddhist? It seems as essential as meditation, a work out for the brain + the rest of your muscles
The Chinese monks do, and now I learn also the Koreans but to less of an extent (more a hobby). Traditionally the Tibetans do not, but these days there is a new trend in the Drikung Kagyu♥🧡🧡 I used to do martial arts and yoga too, and the monk in this video has a. dedicated Indian Yoga practice for 40 years
@@ultimatemeaning That is awesome. What I really love about Buddhism - from my amateur understanding - is the incorporation of other traditions/cultures that make up how an individual buddhist practices. I must admit sir that my view of buddhism still stems from media, such as the 35 chambers of Shaolin, and even tv like The Avatar. This was when I was younger though but now I still recognize the importance of physical exercise in addition to reflection. I know at my core, in my soul that I am no fighter I dread war and avoid military conscription. Yet, I want that power to protect myself and others, not just with words, through action too.
Ah yes, Taekwondo Tul and Poomsae practise has actually been of benefit. It has given me balance. You can even see in tangkha art, when the chakra-man are standing with the chakras. There is sometimes two feet on the lotus on top of their head. That corresponds to my experience of that position, before facing seen it depicted that way. One thing to share, I had a weird dream Sunday night. Even before that, while meditating. I saw the statue of Kamakura Daibutsu, sitting in a spherical room that was glowing crimson and had the spiral texture of inside a tornado. I had many dreams that night, one that stood out to me as very memorable. Was one where someone drove me to a street, where I met a Buddhist Monk dressed like this. The reason I remember it was the communication, I asked him if he spoke Norwegian. He said no. I asked him if he spoke English, he said no. So I thought to myself "Hohoho! Don't you make me take out my journal and pen here😁" and did I took out my journal and pen. Then, when he saw that I had my journal and pen he was satisfied. And I woke up.
I get like him when I work. Practicing movement against an idealistic form of perfection is a trait all people should at least attempt. I've forged much meaning via this However, when I'm dancing I just gotta let it all go. While there is a place for well structured movement and even structured chaos, I've learned more from my chaotic movements than I've ever learned from my practiced steps. There is nothing wrong with dancing as if someone's watching, but being able to dance as if no one is watching while surrounded by thousands of people many of whom were watching was one of the most freeing moments of my life. I sure hope I didn't misunderstand the point of this video. 😂
Take anything I say with a heavy dose of misunderstanding. Part of why I'm here is to learn beyond media stereotypes and what I call BINOs Buddhist In Name Only. I hope no one takes my points like dancing to be arguments against the good man or his teachings, it's just that if I don't stick my foot in my mouth, how will I learn where I'm wrong. 😊
@@ultimatemeaning I did not know about "Gongfu"! Thank you for teaching me something new :) As for Yuna and yoga - that is very cool! I am reading an awesome book about Pranayama these days. It's super interesting!
In the middle of the brewing, when the pot was half full already, an impulse to skip. Registering impatience 😮. The video quality didn't allow me to see clearly how the water dropped in dark colour from the top, could not see the water on top reducing. This is when mind jumped to wanting those cups filled (!). Registering this... maybe zoom in ? Pixels. Higher quality. Still not visible. Ok, not visible. But staying with the process made it interesting, as there was attention! This left mind and body in a calm state. ❤
Koreans don't drink a lot of milk, in fact in the past they found the idea of drinking cow's milk repulsive. He did have some swiss cheese in his fridge though😆🤣😆
@@ultimatemeaning interesting! I’m in the midwest, (that may say a ton) and theres a growing asian population specifically Korean businesses and theres a suspicious amount of cheese involved! But hey, the world’s growing, strange, whatevah. ✊
@@gristly_knuckle Hegel was indeed a windbag; I much prefer Marx for his succinctness. His orientalism taints his perspective on Eastern philosophy and religion. Even so, in his earnestness of understanding, he highlights what even the contemporaries of the buddhas grappled with; if the path to enlightenment is determined by the journey inwards, what then of the rest of the world?
Good on him. Tired of the asian cultural bias against coffee in favor of tea! Bet it was one yummy cup, too! P.S. Does this mean we can have coffee on your retreats now? (worth a try!) 😂
Yay! That’s what I was going to do. Did he do it better? I will give you the political donation. As for your naughty “wokeness” invading and causing delusions, that’s offensive. But who can detest wisdom?
Any animal you'd see who does not ever succeed in mating you know by heart that it failed to fulfill it's potential. Yet Buddhism seems to delight in any sort of distraction from becoming a full being in such a way. Being part of the amazing cycle of life. Starting as a child then then rearing your own. You've just arbitrarily decided to put your focus and love in anything but that.
'Cycle' That is the key word. Nothing lasts. Nothing can be held onto. When you try to, the feelings of suffering arise again and again. This is the 'cycle' of life.
The lack of concentration and the reality of coffee being a foreign chemical soup to the body makes this video give off very unspecial and insignificant vibes.
@raymunrado7569 Foreign as in not a necessacity to the human body. It's a psychoactive bean not part of our essential needs. While coffee is consumed by many It's essentially a drug.
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Reminds me of how if during the morning tea ceremony Zen Master Suzuki Roshi would either make coffee or even use warm coca cola keeping the tradition no matter what. He was teaching his students it's the spirit behind it and this master embodies the spirit of Zen. Thnx Lama 🙏❤️
Thanks for sharing that♥♥♥
The furniture and cups are gorgeous. That is the best way to drink coffee.
Very satisfying I must say especially after a session in the Zendo
Yah. that’s it. Who needs to think. Babe, you’re the one for me. *wheew* glad the hunt is over. Would you like your ring square-cut?
Alex coffee, do you enjoy the coffee, Alex coffee? Yes, I enjoy the coffee, my fine butler, very much. Alex coffee, I am glad you enjoy the coffee, Alex coffee ☕
this is how i brew chinese tea, ceremonially. to think of doing it for coffee too is very exciting. a whole new world of sacred experience has opened to me. thanks so much for this!🙏🙏
So glad that Yuna was able to inspire you! ♥♥♥
Hi Lama Choga you can smell that coffee from here. ☕
Smell amplified by environment!
@@ultimatemeaning It is my 79th on Wednesday the 16th October and I have decided to gaze at our own Tibetan monastery to celebrate mine and Aimilianos' birthdays. Om! 🌈
This was so satisfying. I love how he was so immersed in the making of that coffee. Reminds me of my grandma and how one can be so mindful even in everyday activities :) . Thank you 🙏
Yeah his practice is the Hwadu Koan, everything is done with the Hwadu awareness ♥♥♥
Lolz nice! Mr. Cat and Christopher were so captivated by the process 😻
Love the calligraphy brush to get every grain of coffee out of the grinder!
@ultimatemeaning Mr. Cat loved it too because he kept trying to help the zen master by swatting my phone lolz.
How can i ever be satisfied with my morning coffee after this! :0 brilliant work, what a process
♥♥♥
Watching this from beginning to end made me smile.
Coffee made made Yuna made me smile, especially after morning meditation!
I was transfixed on his movements! ❤
@@ultimatemeaningI think you had a bit too much coffee. That coffee really made. 😂❤
@@ultimatemeaning did you get a bj by a little sherpa boy after this??
Me too! 😄 it was so satisfying to watch, and then.. I understood 💜
aagh zencafe looks delicious! thanks for sharing..love the wood too.
Special kind of Korean Cedar I think he said it was very expensive wood. I have the name in Korean but didn't look it up yet, The Coffee is Kenyan
@@ultimatemeaning wow perfumed wood & finest coffee a touch of Nirvana dear friend🌟💚💚
20k subs🎉🎉🎉
VROOM VROOM MMMK ✨️🌟⭐️
Yeah! I know. Weird hun? Who would have thought? ♥♥♥
Once, a university professor went to visit a well-respected Zen Master to learn about Zen. The Master first invited him to sit for a cup of coffee. The professor sat down and started talking about Zen. The Master quietly prepared and poured the coffee. When the coffee was filled to the cup’s brim, he kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s full! No more will go in!” blurted the professor. “The same with your mind. How can I teach you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
Thanks for sharing the wonderful story ♥♥♥
It shoulda been like "OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST CUP OF COFFEE I'VE EVER HAD " instead it was like "Good?" "Good."
♥♥♥ Felt pretty damn good! ♥♥♥
That's why he's a Zen master, and you're not.
@@SbF6H he's a bullshitter
@@SbF6Hso true….equanimity of mind is the key 🧘🏻♂️
@@buffalOMsoldier Indeed, most of us are driven by our impulses.
I loved how the Zen master made this into a work of art to be savored and thoroughly enjoyed.🙏❤
My thoughts exactly!♥♥♥
@@ultimatemeaning 🌹❤
Coffee dripper: the zen master's choice! I was half-expecting for him to grind the beans by hand too, but I have to admit I can respect an electronic grinder
Like the entire visit, TBH I didn't want to leave! ♥♥♥
Thanks for sharing Zen Master of Chong Hae Sa with us!
Interview will be uploaded soon!
@@ultimatemeaning hope you enjoy your time in korea!
@@ultimatemeaning how does he make a living?? what he do for money??
Wonderful and now I shall go and make myself a cup of coffee. Thank you.
Enjoy your coffee my friend ♥♥♥
I love your videos! ❤
Hey! I appreciate that! ♥♥♥
Celebrating 20K subs with a good cup of coffee !!! Love the sets by the way.❤🎉😊
Thanks Monica♥♥♥
Looking forward to watching interview with him.
75% of the way through the translation, almost there! ♥♥♥
as soon as i ast down with my own coffee lol'
Good timing!
Coffee happiness happens ✌🏼❤️🙏🕉
May the bean be with you 😆🤣😆
I would be very interested, how you view the necessity of returning to a sense of self after experiencing anatta, no-self? There are practitioners that advocate a "mind with no center", staying within a deconstred sense of self. But this doesn't sound to me like healthy approach for people who want to stay active in society. Isn't it necessary to return to a sense of self? Would love to hear your opinion on that :) Thank you!!
Yeah, in many ways this question is non sequitur in terms of the Buddhist teachings, because no self isn't a philosophic tenet but the existential truth that no phenomena possess fixed identity.
We cling to the notion of a self that is a mere fallacy, and if one were to realise the truth of this then how could one then return to delusion (this is taught to be possible for Arhats with remainder BTW but they do not fully realise no self in the context of the Mahaya where this statement appears)
Further whether or not you advocate for a "mind with no center", the real question is "does mind have a centre. A question that is addressed in the mind instructions of the Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings.
Thanks for sharing
💚💖💖
This is the way they've been making coffee for 3,000 years.
No coffee grinders 3000 years ago, no coffee 3000 years ago in Korea, no Zen either 😆🤣😆
Similar, but I roast coffee as a hobby and I find the ritual of it all deeply centering. Each batch requires an attentiveness to your starting conditions and the temperature you're roasting at, guiding it through all the stages of getting it up to temperature, the first 'crack', and then guiding it to where the roast should end (before, during, or after second crack). Each time slightly different than the last.
The whole experience showed me how important ritual is. Having something you can 'flow' through and have some tangible totem at the end just helps me feel human.
My friend had a roasterie in his basement- man did it smell good! ♥♥♥
Vajrayana practitioner and former coffee shop owner here smiling with respect 🙏🕉️☸️☕️
Well met friend! ♥♥♥
@ultimatemeaning Indeed my brother 🙏
Coffee? I drink coffee three times a day, I didn't know there was a zen way to make coffee!
There is a Zen way to do everything, not just chopping wood and carrying water! 🙏🙏🙏
@@ultimatemeaning it elates me to know that it is not a violation of precepts to drink coffee, I am a self taught engineer in the fields of electronics and programming, coffee is almost as important as the blood in my veins for me!
As someone who doesn't meditate as much as I should, I found accidentally that making my morning coffee is a form of meditation. His technique is flawless and deliberate, but he'd yeld better results with a burr grinder rather than a blade grinder, either manual or electric. Great video anyway
Not sure he has much choice of grinder, usually it is stuff that others offer♥♥♥ I liked the vacuum coffee safe though
so my morning coffee ritual is not so strange afterall. good to know
♥♥♥
A quality burr grinder and a V60 Switch (for full immersion brewing) take coffee to the next level.
Yeah someone else mentioned that but usually monks are given things or get them second hand from another monk as a present.
But I guess if he went to Seoul he could find such a thing?
From the beginning of the video, I wanted to ask you the same question, if you practice martial arts too as a buddhist? It seems as essential as meditation, a work out for the brain + the rest of your muscles
The Chinese monks do, and now I learn also the Koreans but to less of an extent (more a hobby). Traditionally the Tibetans do not, but these days there is a new trend in the Drikung Kagyu♥🧡🧡 I used to do martial arts and yoga too, and the monk in this video has a. dedicated Indian Yoga practice for 40 years
@@ultimatemeaning That is awesome. What I really love about Buddhism - from my amateur understanding - is the incorporation of other traditions/cultures that make up how an individual buddhist practices. I must admit sir that my view of buddhism still stems from media, such as the 35 chambers of Shaolin, and even tv like The Avatar. This was when I was younger though but now I still recognize the importance of physical exercise in addition to reflection. I know at my core, in my soul that I am no fighter I dread war and avoid military conscription. Yet, I want that power to protect myself and others, not just with words, through action too.
Ah yes, Taekwondo Tul and Poomsae practise has actually been of benefit. It has given me balance. You can even see in tangkha art, when the chakra-man are standing with the chakras. There is sometimes two feet on the lotus on top of their head. That corresponds to my experience of that position, before facing seen it depicted that way.
One thing to share, I had a weird dream Sunday night. Even before that, while meditating. I saw the statue of Kamakura Daibutsu, sitting in a spherical room that was glowing crimson and had the spiral texture of inside a tornado. I had many dreams that night, one that stood out to me as very memorable. Was one where someone drove me to a street, where I met a Buddhist Monk dressed like this. The reason I remember it was the communication, I asked him if he spoke Norwegian. He said no. I asked him if he spoke English, he said no. So I thought to myself "Hohoho! Don't you make me take out my journal and pen here😁" and did I took out my journal and pen. Then, when he saw that I had my journal and pen he was satisfied. And I woke up.
I get like him when I work. Practicing movement against an idealistic form of perfection is a trait all people should at least attempt. I've forged much meaning via this
However, when I'm dancing I just gotta let it all go. While there is a place for well structured movement and even structured chaos, I've learned more from my chaotic movements than I've ever learned from my practiced steps.
There is nothing wrong with dancing as if someone's watching, but being able to dance as if no one is watching while surrounded by thousands of people many of whom were watching was one of the most freeing moments of my life.
I sure hope I didn't misunderstand the point of this video. 😂
Take anything I say with a heavy dose of misunderstanding. Part of why I'm here is to learn beyond media stereotypes and what I call BINOs Buddhist In Name Only.
I hope no one takes my points like dancing to be arguments against the good man or his teachings, it's just that if I don't stick my foot in my mouth, how will I learn where I'm wrong. 😊
Thanks for sharing your story. The point of the video is simply to share my experiences with the channel, that's all ♥♥♥
I do mine exactly the same, just standing in the kitchen. More coffee nerd than zen master style 😅
Nerds rule! ♥♥♥
"Do Korean monks do Kung Fu?"... I cracked up 🤣
Funny because Gongfu means the Koan exercise in Zen. An interestingly Yuna does Indian yoga everyday♥♥♥
@@ultimatemeaning I did not know about "Gongfu"! Thank you for teaching me something new :)
As for Yuna and yoga - that is very cool! I am reading an awesome book about Pranayama these days. It's super interesting!
Neo: i know Gongfu. _proceeds to stretch_
MATRIX RELAXATIONS
i'll see myself out.
Before enlightenment, you make coffee. During enlightenment, you make coffee. After enlightenment, you make coffee.
😆🤣😆
Put this guy in a tent on a California sidewalk and he would blend right in..
These guys live a very spartan life ♥♥♥
In the middle of the brewing, when the pot was half full already, an impulse to skip. Registering impatience 😮. The video quality didn't allow me to see clearly how the water dropped in dark colour from the top, could not see the water on top reducing. This is when mind jumped to wanting those cups filled (!). Registering this... maybe zoom in ? Pixels. Higher quality. Still not visible. Ok, not visible. But staying with the process made it interesting, as there was attention!
This left mind and body in a calm state. ❤
Sorry I grabbed the phone quickly so I could film him and I didn't have time to switch to 4k
@@ultimatemeaning this was not, what I meant to imply.
this "Master" masters - WHAT????
He's a teacher of Zen Buddhism
You'll have to ask him ♥♥♥
No latte art 🍵🧎🏻
Koreans don't drink a lot of milk, in fact in the past they found the idea of drinking cow's milk repulsive. He did have some swiss cheese in his fridge though😆🤣😆
@@ultimatemeaning interesting! I’m in the midwest, (that may say a ton) and theres a growing asian population specifically Korean businesses and theres a suspicious amount of cheese involved! But hey, the world’s growing, strange, whatevah. ✊
Is it true that for the zen master, every act is meditation?
This is the Hwadu koan practice it is based on the 4 foundations of mindfulness♥♥♥
@@ultimatemeaning praxis hegelia; the coffee makes itself!
@@danielheflin6658 I wonder if I can get a praxis hegelia coffee machine on Amazon? 😆🤣😆
Hegel was a windbag. But perhaps he was dharma. How can being awake be meditation? That’s not the same as being tricked by Western woke masters.
@@gristly_knuckle Hegel was indeed a windbag; I much prefer Marx for his succinctness. His orientalism taints his perspective on Eastern philosophy and religion. Even so, in his earnestness of understanding, he highlights what even the contemporaries of the buddhas grappled with; if the path to enlightenment is determined by the journey inwards, what then of the rest of the world?
its wht u do 2
♥♥♥
Good on him. Tired of the asian cultural bias against coffee in favor of tea! Bet it was one yummy cup, too!
P.S. Does this mean we can have coffee on your retreats now?
(worth a try!)
😂
There will be coffee and tea in May for sure. My experience is that Tibetan Buddhists love coffee! ♥♥♥
Yay! That’s what I was going to do. Did he do it better? I will give you the political donation. As for your naughty “wokeness” invading and causing delusions, that’s offensive. But who can detest wisdom?
Any animal you'd see who does not ever succeed in mating you know by heart that it failed to fulfill it's potential. Yet Buddhism seems to delight in any sort of distraction from becoming a full being in such a way. Being part of the amazing cycle of life. Starting as a child then then rearing your own. You've just arbitrarily decided to put your focus and love in anything but that.
Nice try Mara
'Cycle' That is the key word. Nothing lasts. Nothing can be held onto. When you try to, the feelings of suffering arise again and again. This is the 'cycle' of life.
I guess you have never been to a Buddhist country like Thailand or Burma. They have lots of children 😆🤣😆
@@memesmojo5622 Never seen a Buddhist child I guess? ♥♥♥
It’s a bait, monk. Don’t fall for the trolls online. Let them bark.
The lack of concentration and the reality of coffee being a foreign chemical soup to the body makes this video give off very unspecial and insignificant vibes.
Everything is a foreign chemical soup.
It's mental masturbation for snobs
Sure whatever you say ♥♥♥
@raymunrado7569 Foreign as in not a necessacity to the human body. It's a psychoactive bean not part of our essential needs. While coffee is consumed by many It's essentially a drug.
@@RIPxBlackHawk so is tea, so is incense, but I don't see you protesting about them
I can feel the superficial veneration of this mundane video that people have simply because of the title. 😂🪷
Its OK if its superficial because it is just a bit of fun anyhow ♥♥♥