In this video Daishin shares a poem from Zen Master Keizan Jokin about Shikantaza. He also speaks about the two sides of the brain, and how Shikantaza stimulates right brain thinking. www.zenfields.org
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! 🙏
Hello, I'm sorry but the poem by Keizan was orally transmitted to me by my teacher. I don't know where to find it at this time. I'll see if I can find out, but can't give you any promises. Glad you are enjoying the series!
@@zenfields7563 Thank you very much for your answer! I hadn't really expected one so long after the upload of this video. It is very kind of you to try to find the poem. But don't bother too much. I have come to think that perhaps it makes these lines even more precious not knowing the context. Just like the mysterious phrases of the pre-Socratics, so enigmatic and with so much space around them for interpretation. I love hearing you say so quietly "an empty cushion in the wait of a flame". I could hear it again and again. Feel it again and again. 🙏
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.)
You are so welcome!
Thank you very much for this video series. It clarifies much. 👍🏻
You are very welcome. Glad it clarifies.
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! 🙏
Hello, I'm sorry but the poem by Keizan was orally transmitted to me by my teacher. I don't know where to find it at this time. I'll see if I can find out, but can't give you any promises.
Glad you are enjoying the series!
@@zenfields7563 Thank you very much for your answer! I hadn't really expected one so long after the upload of this video.
It is very kind of you to try to find the poem. But don't bother too much. I have come to think that perhaps it makes these lines even more precious not knowing the context. Just like the mysterious phrases of the pre-Socratics, so enigmatic and with so much space around them for interpretation. I love hearing you say so quietly "an empty cushion in the wait of a flame". I could hear it again and again. Feel it again and again.
🙏
Wonderful!