Zen Buddhism in 3 Minutes
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2016
- Curious about Zen Buddhism? It's such a simple yet complicated philosophy which can help you turn any situation into a positive.
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no Zen is meditation, Za is sitting... Zazen is sitting meditation
Was going to mention that as well - "Za"zen is "Sitting" Meditation peeps :)
Zen comes from the word dhyāna which we do not have a proper English word for. As meditation would still be considered a improper translation based on how we define meditation as sitting quietly and thinking about something which is not what zen is.
Words do not explain that which is zen. That’s the joke. Zen is but a alternative illusion.
That's an incredibly narrow definition. Zen is so much more than that. It's primarily a life philosophy but even that definition is pretty narrow and doesn't do it justice. Defining zen as just "meditation" is like saying the "earth" is just "dirt".
If they added that, it woulda become a 3min and 15 sec video, which is a no no for the algorithm… i guess lol.
It's no belief system, because believing is clinging to a concept, zen ain't concerned with ideas and concepts
+Blazin 420 That's such chaff. Enlightenment is a concept, and so is the idea of celestial Buddhahood. Moreover, it is a belief system since Buddhas and bodhisattvas are worshiped in Zen Buddhism, with rituals inside temples.
+Quq Balam 👍🏼
+Quq Balam they're acknowledged artistically, not worshipped
+Quq Balam and enlightenment is a realisation, not a concept, a concept for the ignorant perhaps
Blazin 420
"they're acknowledged artistically, not worshipped"
That's not true. Worshiping the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, who are understood to be concrete gods and not just mere symbols, is the whole point of Zen Buddhism. Many people in the West don't see this because 1) Zen Buddhism is not practiced in their countries, and 2) Westerners, through European colonialism, have forcefully appropriated Zen Buddhism and bastardized it into whatever they wanted.
"and enlightenment is a realisation, not a concept, a concept for the ignorant perhaps"
You don't seem to know the definition of concept in the first place. Enlightenment is a concept, just like every virtually every word in existence. You're just saying this because you want to sound special and smarter.
"Artistic technique is discipline in spontaneity and spotaneity in discipline." That's actually well said.
Literal doublethink
@@Mr-7ou6gn Zen embraces contradictions 😁
Thank you for talking about Zen. Zen leans on the Buddha dharma and the Wu Wei concept of Taoism.
Don't complicate doing by too much thinking about doing, just do it, don't attach to what you like or dislike, it is all in a process of change. Treat people with kindness as we are all in a process of learning. We are all beginning anew every day.
Well said
AUM is a mantra used in hindu, buddhist forms of meditation from India, just so no one gets confused.
From Nepal
@@ramdevdirector6653 Gautam buddha real name was Siddhartha Gautam he was actually born in southern Nepal (which was earlier comming under India) and the place where Siddhartha gautam got enlightened and became Gautam *Buddha* and found *Buddhism* is Gaya a place bihar India
But the zen Buddhism was carried by an Indian named *bodhidharma*
It's OM wtf
@@EklavyaGoyal Dear, it was primarily Aum. Regardless the meaning is the same. ॐ Shanti
@@EklavyaGoyal it pronounced as aum
This is a summary of Alan Watts's summary on Zen. No references to Koans, the lineage and Boddhidharma? Also, rinzai and soto? Hmmm.... the reason there is a specific term zazen is because it is a specific type of meditation involving generally no mantra and eyes open facing the wall. Being in the present moment is nice, but what about transcending duality? What about the non-abiding awareness? Very inaccurate unfortunately!
I partly agree with you. Even though this video was slightly inaccurate, it offers a greater introduction for regular western people who are dependent on words for understanding. "Zen is not words", as many have said, which makes it difficult for me to explain to my friends. But this video put it simpler for me in that way than I ever could have done myself
It’s only a summary of Zen Buddhism, a brief introduction, which by definition means focusing on only the main points and leaving out some of the details. We shouldn’t be so quick to judge a well intentioned video simply because we consider our own knowledge to be more in-depth.
are there any videos you could reccomend which go into depth on the topics you have referenced?
You're criticizing a 3 minute and 12 second video for not comprehensively covering the subject of Zen.
I like the video! But your repetition of Om might be confusing for some, as generally zazen doesn't use a mantra.
+Taylor Saver Thanks for watching - the "oming" is mostly for comedic effect. :)
One may think that's funny, but it may be misleading.
There's no mantras in zazen indeed
@@gra6649 Relax man, it’s fine. It’s a harmless stereotype
@@Greggorious123 There's just so much misleading crap on YT about Zen, that I feel it’s important to, as much as possible, to get it right.
A key requirement to practice zazen is to first generate the mind of enlightenment, also known as the bodhi-mind. This distinguishes it from other styles of meditation and is the path of the bodhisattva. This is most commonly done through the Four Great Vows: Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to put an end to them.
The Dharmas are boundless; I vow to master them.
The Buddha Way is unattainable; I vow to attain it.
As soon as one says that Zen is this or that one has missed the point. And there is no OM in zazen.
Where do you learn about Zen? Good sources?
Alan was the man :)
So you're saying you can't truthfully say anything about zen. I get it, it can't be articulated, but how is this guy supposed to do a video about it? He's got to say something.
So the monks don't know what Zen is then. Is that right? Cause they say it's this and this guy says it's that, or whatever. Postmodernism in a nutshell. Or is their some actual underlying philosophy there, which we wouldn't matter anyway cause the people who made it obviously "missed the point."
A couple of books you may want to try are Three Pillars of Zen, and Zen Dawn In The West. Both are Written by Philip Kapleau. These books are easy to read, and will give you as much information as you need without making your head hurt.
Zen is not a belief system.
AquaPlanet It makes claims about reality so it is a belief system.
What claims of reality?
Here’s the fun part!! It’s YOUR belief it’s not a belief system
It doesn't make any claims, it provides you tools to explore reality for yourself. Meditation is one such tool. It doesn't teach anything..
Zen is about living within your mind. That is where all your thoughts are.
Thank you for mentioning Alen Watts. I stumbled upon his lectures on youtube and he is the one who got me interested in Zen/Buddhism.
Do you know that Bodhidharma brought the founding practices of Zen from South India? He was a prince from Kanchipuram in South India. I can see some of the influence of Southern Indian martial arts on the Shaolin martial arts scene.
Goes to show how the world always benefitted when wise unprejudiced approach to knowledge by any people resulted in the extraordinary.
Sadly the world is courting another dark age by the fallacy of a pure cultural identity as if we never borrowed from each other!
Excellent. Concise and easy to understand and digest.
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Thanks Anja! Feedback like this always is great to hear.
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Tathata (suchness) ...the eternal blissfull simplicity. For those with scattered monkey mind, a mantra may be beneficial. "Om Mani Padme Hum." ^^
Zen wisdom is amazing, especially when it teaches
through short and meaningful stories:
beautifully explained
what is the background song called please?
"Zen is the biggest lie of all times"
Master Zen Kodo Sawaki
what is that supposed to mean? enlighten me please
@@aiyman75 enlighten us please
@@aiyman75 so, in taoism, tao is unspeakable. What you say is never can be tao. So, if zen is a hybrid of buddhism and taoism, this means you get further from it as much as you describe it. Therefore, telling Zen is lie is same as telling Zen is Zen. And zen is not zen. What is zen? Why is zen? Zazen. What you need isn't enlightenment, you already have that. Stop looking and stop listening. See. Hear. Bye.
Nice work, good Alan Watts mention, there are many of his talks on RUclips and a good place to start.
Watts was on a continuous trip and never got to the ' point ' .
Mesmerizing, yes .
Enlightening, no .
incredible teaching in the most absorbing way. Thank you.
is it ironic that a channel called thought monkey made a video on zen?
No.
lmao...maybe spiritual experience monkey would be more fitting but the guy is probably making videos about all types of topics, zen just being one of the topics so let's try to give him a break.
no "om" mantra in zazen 🙊(also no visualization) just watch wallpaint dry (while the mind sees the mind) and (maybe) the heart sutra end ... dropping off mind and body (soto-style) OR go the koans route (rinzai-style)
Very useful video. Thank you. Concise and informative.
If I may make a suggestion, the music was a bit loud and distracting. I know, not very Zen of me to be able to ignore it. Or maybe that was the lesson inside the lesson?
Really good explanation, thank you!
Loved that you mentioned Watts. Without him, Zen wouldn't be as understandable to the west as it is today.
Ricard de Virgo listen to Alan Watts and open a portal to everything.
I sound like a cult follower whenever I explain Alan Watts to friends who have never heard of him
So you thought that Zen can be more understandable 6 years ago. I wonder what do you think now.
Explanation of Zen: to your questions of what and why, I say "ok."
Excellent. Explains in short better then when I try to explain it to friends in a very long speech. Thanks
They Are True
OM?
The music was so contradictory to zen lol
True zen cannot be explained !
Those who know do not explain.
Those who explain do not know.
Rollin Rollin Rollin
The secret to sounding really Zen wise is to repeat what you say in reverse and reverse what you say in repeat.
Hi :) Do you have one on Shinto also? I like the concise format. Reminds me of espresso yoga, full yoga workout in 3 minutes or less.
how simply all can be transformed in to a wrong an understanding. zen is a man activity from empty mind, witch see all situations as it is, without dividing in to positive or not. not a philosophy, but state of mind, you have or not.
You got to naturally get in the
Zone
Way easier to get through than “ The Three Pillars of Zen”
Nice voice
Namo Buddhaya
Excellent explanation - thank you very much
I used to meditate a lot then I got processed and I went to Pastor and believe in Jesus. Things got better and Life was changed
Indeed true ...Zen buddhism is a combination of taoism and buddhism. ..
Very few get that. They keep saying "zen is meditation"...its like helloooo mcfly there is more to zen than just meditation.
Omar Delawar Nope . The prince was from India . Get the facts clear and strong buddy . 😁
Dyan (India), Chan (China), Zen (Japan).Meditation.
The three Asian spiritual powers
Zen practitioners typically don't emphasize mantras dude. Also Zen is not a belief system. Thank you for posting anyway!
Its not aowoum its OM (O-hmm)
No mind - no present
Ghani
No mind
Is it a belief system? If one answers yes or no they may be missing the point.
"It is like a finger pointing to the moon"
I was reading comments while watching this and suddenly realized something and stopped
Realize what?
That u are not exist, and that's not u watching this?
Is it a belief system? I do t recall ever being required to "believe" anything?
Buddhism started in India by Siddharth later known as Gautam Buddha.
Californium Spring
I stopped listening 37 seconds in when the narrator said Zen is a belief system. It is not a belief system. It is not a faith. This person has no idea what he is talking about.
Right. Zen is a process to get people to realize the Ultimate Reality. The title of an Alan Watts book, "This Is It" are the closest English words to the Taoist's description, "That which can't me named."
Zen Buddhism is came from south India, during Sangam age and medieval and there massive trade between south India and China, Korea and Japan, south India bought culture impact in East Asia eg : Dravidian Korean language, martial arts, Buddhism and Indian school of philosophy.. there is biased research done by western historian so they never came in lime light but still well documented in some ancient tamil texts..... if anybody think there are fake just do research on yourself link between Dravidian and asia culture... even Cambodian Angkor wat temple is belong to Dravidian architecture (south Indian architecture)...
I have a different idea - your "belief" that it came from India is "propaganda" by the Indian Nationalist media aka fake history, fake news.
le zen est l'anti chema, l'anti conformité, anti manuel...
Le ZEN c'est vivre au et dans le présent
It a belief system at all.
I thought Buddhism originated in India?
Nah You Inow Why Its Too Interesting
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Monkey Boy digs simplicity.
if zen doesn't focus on the accumulation of knowledge then isn't this video a little ironic?
Everything about Zen is ironic, therefore everything about it makes sense also.
great peace and love
eating nothing but rice is a great way to develop malnutrition. That's zen.
That is BS thich nhat hanh lived 95 years being a vegan zen monk
@@consciouspresence5880 and im sure he had attendants preparing his meals
@@gotem370 You won’t get magical vegan illnesses from eating plants. Ignoring the blatant environmental impacts, drinking animal br3ast milk won’t save you from made up deficiencies that only eating animal flesh will get rid of. Our ancestors died at around 30 just because they consumed animal products that were not properly cooked.
Getting back to zen, you cannot live at all if you cannot live in the present. All suffering, anxiety and depression comes from living in anger, fear and delusion which is living in the future and not realising the present.
@@consciouspresence5880 it makes mens penis shrink
background tune hard
Do or not do , there is no try ...
huhu
The Buddha is from India
I Dont Know Pass Perhaps
The word Zen simply means meditation. I've practiced Zen for 30-40 years, and it has no concepts, no beliefs, nothing but meditation and a few common sense ideas on right thought, right speech, etc.
It is not Buddhism, as Buddhists have beliefs. The meditation (one can be seated, walking, practicing mindfulness, etc) is always the same.....following your breath. After a short while, the mind calms down, and if we sit diligently we "wake up". That can be singular, or plural.
The meditation can be taught in 3 minutes, but it is very difficult to maintain day after day, year after year due to our habitual, discursive minds. But it works. It will wake us up from our beliefs, our habits, our delusions, our philosophies, etc. It puts us in the present moment, where our "true" self lives. The ego always lives in the past or the future, which are illusions. Only the present moment is real.
Saying that Zen is believeing system is so wrong, that show clearly that the narrating person doesn't actually get the point of Zen.
Trying to say it is this or that. You have missed the point
emphasize meditation, screw all else = be content
That's not at all an accurate definition of zen though, meditation is part of it but you are missing so much more.
There is no spoon
Sitting meditation is not Zen. The Chinese masters warned of this.
Great video but Zen comes from a Buddhist Indian monk called Bodhidharma. Bodhidharma travelled from 6th century India to China. In China, Bodhidharma gave the Chinese people zen and kung fu.
To Toroses
What? Buddhism only exists between the ears of 'believers' in ' Buddhism. Some of the others among us know that what you call 'Buddhahood' is only the workings of the genius, and more, intelligence we each received at the moment of our respective creations. Once an individual spends enough time exploring their innate intelligence, this point becomes exceedingly clear.
Buddhahood is a zenful, mokshaful, jhanaful, delightful place to be. Would that all you Buddhism practitioners could spend as much time there as I do.
Alan watts also says if you think you know Zen then you do not know it.
"Those who claim to know what Zen is, is a fraud. Nobody knows what Zen is.
~Alan Watts
haha, that was nice. :)
@thoughtmonkey please turn off the music or change it to a soothing one. The current one is so distracting and un-zen.
zen wasnt developed in china, zen is a new branch of sanatana dharma i.e. hinduism or ancient vedic religion
Buddhism came from India (present-day Nepal) and was combined with Taoism in China to create "Zen Buddhism". The teachings have aspects of both of those philosophies so technically you can say they are from both countries.
Zen- distortion of Buddhism
Well. Practicing Zen Buddhism is actually practicing the Pacceka Buddha's path. One who enlightens without definition and ends up without definition. He comes to know but in fact he can't share a single knowledge what he knows. He has knowledge but limited in the core of itself. It's not useful to help others, without definitions. Learn about Three Types of buddhas and you'll find it. Don't follow anything blindly. Pacceka Buddha is unable to teach a single word.
"Judge not, that ye be not judged"
Background music is annoying and very distracting.
You deserve more subscribers!!
zen is not from china it was one part of buddhism so started in india and become popular in china because chinese emperor were obsessed about buddism. and introduce to japan.
Not exactly. Zen borrows from Buddhism as much as it borrows from Taoism (from China). Buddhism also started in Nepal originally (Siddharta, the prince was from Nepal, not India).
Ah please don't mention Alan Watts in a video about Zen buddhism.
No one can explain zen better than OSHO
Isn't OSHO just a spiritual teacher though, not just specifically Zen?
If this video were re-edited to cut off one Ah-om at the beginning or end, plus the "Be sure to subscribe" blurb -- it would be three minutes long. As claimed.
This is all fine and dandy but one main thing you need to delete.... belief has nothing to do with belief
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Enjoying the moment isn't what Zen is about. That kind of thinking is probably what led to Watts becoming an alcoholic and a womanizer.
Hmm. Maybe accepting the moment (whether it's in pain or pleasure) is a better way to put it?
You can't talk about zen if you don't know zen, which is clearly the case. But if you know it, then you can't talk about it.
Zen is just Zen.
If you really dive into that, you will understand what Zen REALLY means :)
Zen is everything and nothing at the same time, so basically Zen is like the Universe.
A Zen master was cleaning the monastery garden. A novice monk rushed out and said: 'I have discovered the meaning of Zen'. What is it, the master asked? It is the here and now. Rubbish, said the master. Would you like me to tell you the meaning of Zen? Please do, replied the monk. It is the here and now, replied the master.
thornsaresharp Almost sounds like a koan. I like it!
@@JohnDoe-gg7er The master lived in the 'here and now'. Cleaning the garden was part of his life. The novice monk should have picked up a broom and began sweeping or something to demonstrate that he understood this. Actions speak louder than words.
Zen is not a belief system. There are no concepts in zen, nor is there the absence of concepts.
The first sentence is correct but you are confusing the SH out of people with the second - especially newcomers to zen. The correct way to phrase this is to say "zen is a spiritual experience and cannot be understood with words or through intellectualization".