Zen Vs Law of Attraction
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Absolutely beautiful Dear Prudence, THANK YOU for sharing YOUR divine version, Brad!!!
The sky at midnight may look very different from the sky at noon, but really they are the same.
"Dear Prudence!"
One of Lennon's and the Beatles' best ever. 👍🎶🎸
Ironically for Brad its message is to spend less time meditating
I'm into that "Manifestation" stuff, except I'm more into Western Occultism and such, most ov the time. I still Practice Shikantaza daily, WITHOUT INTENTION, and have a Zen Teacher.
I had Trouble Reconciling the Two for awhile, but at a Certain point I realized two things. 1. The Universe Moves, so any Illusions I have through this Movement be it "Spiritual" Stuff, or "Material" Stuff, is just the Unstoppable Nature ov things. 2. Sitting Shikantaza as I was Taught, allows me to see it's Illusion and Still have Fun with the Illusion, to which I doubt I can escape, and Less and Less Want to.
Shikantaza=Dzogchen?
@@kukumuniu5658 Shikantaza= sitting meditation in Soto Zen.
@@bartfart3847 I know,but idea and mechanism the same?
The Travis picking is coming along!
It's not nearly as bad as its was!
Donner Silent Guitar from Wal Mart (really!).
Prosperity Gospel vs
[10:22] “Dwelling on the one mind that is everything.”
[i.e. “God, source, spirit, vibration, energy, universe]
Nice shirt!
ADDING EVEN ONE WORD IS TOO MUCH,,I TRUST THIS REALY NICE PRESENTATION ,YOUR PRESENT SITTING IS MANIFESTING REALY GOOD ARROW INTO THE TARGET,,, VERY HELPFUL ,,,
Thank you, Brad. 😊
Huangbo is renowned for despising magical display.
Welcome to the UK Brad :)
Interesting about the objectification of 'enlightenment' as something to pursue, attain and hold; my Teacher, in answer to a question about attachment to Dharma and clinging to the practices and their effects said - don't worry about it, cling to it! I guess that if one is invested in that way and so continues to practice, there comes a point wherein one realizes that there is no object of enlightenment (or anything else for that matter) and then there is liberation even from that illusion. But if one abandons Dharma as just another object to let go of, one will never get to that point.
Zen may not jive with the Law of Attraction.
But there is a very long history of magical practices in Buddhism oriented toward obtaining worldly success and gains. Of course this isn't the same as the Law of Attraction, but the objective is similar.
Today, we can most prominently see this in Nichiren Buddhism, specifically in the practices of Soka Gakkai International (SGI). But other Nichiren Buddhists chant for worldly gains as well, not just the members of the cultish, non-ecclesiastical SGI, and it has a long history.
It is traditional in Theravada Buddhism to ask monks to chant for worldly success, such as success in business, success on school exams, etc. And that's Theravada, perhaps the most anti-worldly school of Buddhism.
Shingon (Japanese esoteric) Buddhists often performed rituals with the objective of achieving some worldly goal. In an unfortunate episode during World War II, Japanese Shingon Buddhist priests even performed rituals attempting to cause US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Of course usually the objective was much more innocuous than this.
SGI is the Law of Attraction of Buddhism!
"A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo" with a Modern Commentary
by Seon Master Subul (Author) I highly recommended this.
OMG it took me Years to figure that out about Huang Po too.. LOL. YEARS
the clouds will make a daisy chain so let me see you smile again/Dear Prudence/Won't you come out and play...
Brad, the thing i have a hard time figuring out is actually coming from the other direction. if you're really into zen how does one reconcile wanting things like romance, friends, or a better career with nonattachment? how does one pursue those things without getting caught up in desire and illusions? how do we know the difference between manifesting One Mind and being an ordinary ghost clutching at grass?
Non-attachment isn’t apathy. Non-attachment, specifically with romance, is the only way it can work in my lay opinion. If you say you love someone, why would you cling to them and try to smother them? As an example there’s an old saying that “if you love a flower, let it grow.” If you pick the flower to make it “yours” and hold possession of it, the flower will die very fast. If you try to “possess” your significant other, it will kill the relationship and they’ll probably end up resenting you.
nonattachment you're talkin about is just a notion. if you continue with your practice this becomes clearer. we are entangled in attachments by default, we get caught up in desire and illusions, you cannot avoid that. all i found out by experience is just continue the practice and nurture the wholesome things in my life.
@@chrisplaysdrums09 Good answer!
@@HardcoreZen 🙏
great answers yall thanks!
thank you!
I think I am a master of all Buddhisms
because I have gotten rid of attachment to absolutely everything
including Buddhist concepts, I have cut myself off from liberation, from achieving enlightenment
I have gotten rid of attachment to practice, to meditation, to the teachings, I have gotten rid of everything.
Are congratulations in order? Or was that a mistake?
@@macdougdoug Im not sure because I also have gotten rid of attachment to understanding
@@kukumuniu5658 what provoked this sudden lack of attachments?
@@macdougdoug enlightenment of course
@@kukumuniu5658 Well then I'll say congratulations! I suppose there was some understanding or insight at the moment of enlightenment - and that there is no attachment to that moment?
in the original ist written 精明本體 what blofeld translated as"SPIRITUAL brilliance of the sorce-substance
Interesting. 精 (sei) does indeed mean spiritual. I was wrong! For the VERY FIRST TIME!!
3:16 You are good Brad. Have you seen some of these Ram Dass lectures? He talks about things I still can’t really believe, but I know he’s not lying.
I think Ram Dass was sincere, but I also wonder if he got a little seduced by fame. It's hard to avoid when you're as super famous as he was.
Beware of all enterprises requiring new clothes. (Henry David Thoreau)
What kind of guitar are you playing? I didn't see tuning pins. Thank you.
@@jameshoeve4466 Donner Silent Guitar that I bought at Wal Mart. It’s actually pretty good!
It’s just capitalism.
Capitalist spiritualism.
Brevity is not always wisdom. It is capitalism but capitalism permeates and imbues so much of our Western lives that this statement, "it's just capitalism" doesn't even point to anything. LOA is our modern interpretation of particular hermetic principles. Hermeticism used to be mainstream for many centuries. Until abrahamic traditions which still dominate Western culture almost but erased it.
Way to travis pick, Brad!
@@EvanBerry. I’m not as terrible as I was.
The Law of Attraction has always been one of those triggering "get off my lawn" ideas for me. It's just the Evangelical Prosperity Doctrine stripped of it's "christian" connotations, but it is the same grift.
@@rorysimpson8716 Indeed it is! I’m surprised anyone can’t figure that out.
after annihilation -- integration
10:34 😂
I don't know about your claim that record locations would just come to you out of a zazen vortex.. I think you just spent/spend a lot of time on the cushion obsessing over records.
Real Punks used android
Probably. I kind of hate my iPhone.
Why not learn about it from people who aren't caricatures of Monopoly pieces and see if there's any real application for Buddhists?
Or learn about Buddhist magic from Buddhist magic practitioners? Certainly some Nichiren Buddhists will chant the daimoku (namu myoho renge kyo) in an effort to achieve worldly gains. There is history of Shingon (Japanese esoteric Buddhist) practices for that purpose as well, also on the negative side. During World War II, Japanese Shingon priests did rituals with the aim of causing US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death.
Generally there is a long history of chanting for worldly success in Buddhism--even in Theravada.
It's not necessary. There is no application for Buddhists at all.
@@HardcoreZen All Buddhist content should be so pointless then😂
@@michigandersea3485 American Buddhism, especially Zen, is full of western empiricism mistaken to be Buddhism. Last 100 years of Buddhism here have been led by academics and nontheists generally, so academic and nontheist Buddhisms have been more recognized than the esoteric varieties. It's actually a part of the whole buddhist hipster schtick Hardcore plays with around here. He should play with it more.
@@bodhisattvaFM idk, Tibetan Buddhism is pretty strong in the USA. The closest English speaking sangha to me, in a very average US suburb, is a Tibetan one