@@elzoog alcohol abuse, mafia, chaebols, lowest fertility rate, maniacal regime next door, patriarchy, maybe k dramas are a bit tame compared to the real ?
@@osip7315 China is not actually that much of a threat to South Korea. There is alcohol abuse, but that is improving and is nothing compared to the drug abuse that exists in the United States. It is true that they have a low fertility rate, but that might be corrected once that becomes too much of a problem. The Koreans today, hate what they call 3D jobs (dirty, dangerous, difficult) and so they hire foreigners to do them. However, as soon as the foreigners commit a terrorist attack, South Korea won't be like America and say "We need to promote diversity" and will deport them. Even with those problems, I would rather live in Korea because they have a good public transportation structure, WAY cheaper rent than what you would see in the U.S. (unless for some reason you HAVE to live in Seoul). You won't have coke heads bothering you (maybe the occasional homeless person) or people shooting up schools. You can WALK (read WALK) to the nearest store to get food (i.e. you don't need a car like you do in the U.S.). Sorry, but South Korea is just better than the U.S. even with the problems you mentioned.
The Providence Zen Center is now located in Cumberland, Rhode Island, on Pound Hill Road, a winding country road. It's a startling sight when it first comes into view.
I've heard it said that people and dogs are so close because humans and wolves are the 2 most successful pack hunters on Earth and have compatible social hierachies. If dogs had evolved the ability to think, maybe Ziggy would be doing the vid and Brad would be barking in the background?
This is such crazy timing! I happened to follow the Kwan Um School of Zen on Facebook a few weeks ago … never heard of them nor of Seung Sahn until then … but their postings and interpretations are so clear and compelling. Definitely need to read the book.
Thanks Brad. One of the most helpful talks I heard 25 years ago was called "Buddhism and Zen" (sorry i can't remember who gave it), and your summary of Seung Sahn's teaching builds on that in a very nice way. Also the garden is fabulous!
Re: the early part of this video when you were talking about someone collecting your stuff, etc. When we had a center, people would often suggest to us what we “should,” do about something. We say, “ Great idea! Why don’t you get some people together and take care of it?” And that was the end of that. 😂
I think you need to be in a protected environment, like a monastery, in order to stay in that state. Ramakrishna experiencing the pain of an oxen he saw being whipped, comes to mind. If you are so deeply merged with everything, how do you drive, for instance, when you are aware of being each driver? Try getting on the expressway!
My intuitive Self laughed at this thank you maybe you can do one of these talks about how that happens and how it gets moved to tears all it's emotional responses I love petting my neighbors dogs over the fence too give Ziggy a nice head scratch and love from me keep having a good time all the time Brad
Well it turned out that it is, after all, not that simple and just "intuition" and "don't know" mind are a lousy shortcut. Seung Sahn turned out to be a sexual predator, and the only difference between him and Sogyal Rinpoche was that Kwan Um succeeded in sweeping it under a rug and saying it was not a big deal.
Thanks. I am interested in the Kwan Um School of Zen now because I want more practice. I am leery of Zen Centers in general, maybe because of your books? The simplification of teachings is indeed really important and as you know, is a big theme in Japanese history, with separate Zen, Shin, and Nichiren Buddhism coming out of the chaos of trying to grasp just what Tendai practice to use in Kamakura Japan, when the populace faced great desperation in a time of national crisis. I've watched a lot of videos from the (American) Tendai Buddhist Center and the problem remains--there is so much doctrine, they are lost in the sauce. Tendai is so comprehensive, essentially teaching ALL schools of Buddhism in one. As much as I think a multiplicity of teachings make for broader-based appeal, almost all the dharma talks are more like history and doctrine lessons.
re 2:51, in hindi/sanskrit the '..heen' suffix translates to '..lacking' (- eg netraheen translates to 'netra-lacking' , netra = vision , so this means 'blind' ) so hinayana translates to without-vehicle, which , my guess is, refers to "that group of buddhism which doesn't have an officially/state recognised organization" - correct me if i am wrong but the Buddha's Buddhism existed as a thing but not a state-recognized thing until later
Well as Tim McCarthy said, you get a grade from a zen master when you answer a koan, therefore it's appropriate to give a grade for Buddhist study. Given that, wouldn't it make sense to organize and systematize your teachings?
Hmmm not sure if by don't know mind he has just meant intuition. It'd be interesting to hear some kwan um masters commenting on this. But the truth is - this is not xlear teaching. Most people probably do not get what kind of state of mind it is (inclusing me). Masters get it. But it is like saying "just do the back flip. It's there. Just try try try thousands times
Just finished it as one of the first books on Buddhism that I've read. I also had lots of fun reading it. One thing bothered me - the way he talked about the Absolute felt like talking about brahman (some underlying substance of all things that's non changing) but I don't know much about buddhism and braminism, so maybe it's only my impression. Btw, your garden looks great!
@@ClippyDoGmaybe, maybe not. i just found in the Gita the way Krishna describes the self and brahman and what you see when you meditate, is similar to what zen dudes describe. when your thoughts are gone and you're sitting in nothing, there is something still there. the true self, brahman, atman, your neighbor dave, etc.
When a book is sold new, Brad gets a cut as royalties. When a book is sold secondhand... the seller gets 100%. I mean, if you sold a book to your friend Jeb you would get 100% of the proceeds right?
Your history is off, my friend. Most famous book: Dropping Ashes on the Buddha. Seung Sahn originally "set up shop" in Providence, RI first attracting students from Brown University.
@@HardcoreZenspeaking of books, I ordered 3 of yours over 2 months ago. The bookstore said that the people on your end have to wait for a reprint or something. Might want to look into it. At 19$ a book that's a lot of money for me. Thanks
@@HardcoreZen if that's true, you are really getting screwed. I ordered from a kinda mom and pop bookstore that's really good usually. That seems really unfair to you. They barely give you any money, charge 18.99, and take a really long time to deliver, if they fulfill the order at all...
He had Devadatta, who tried to kill him. So yes. I've never researched this story in detail. I'll look it up and see if there's anything I can do a video about there.
How do you know that our ancestors didn't survive through their enlightened intuition, rather than by thinking? And only thereafter did they become muddled due the inner monologue called 'thinking?'
I'm sure that was part of it, too. But I'm also sure brain power was what got us through a lot or our evolution. An animal like us with the brain power of a chimp wouldn't survive long. Chimps are like 1/3 or 1/2 the weight and size of a human and have something like 5 times the physical strength. It's crazy how much stronger other animals are.
@@HardcoreZen Yes but one should assume that the quality of both our insight and thinking are 'proportional' to our 'brain power', and that the quality of our insight also separates us from the apes and other animals.
@@JimTempleman It's impossible to know for sure, but I tend to think most other animals have a very strong sense of intuition. I think much of what we call "instinct" is intuition.
I encountered Seung Sahn's sayings on the Kwan Um interweb : his crazy stories gave me faith in zen again - I was most upset when I heard that he became a bad boy, probably victim of his own big guru status.
I’m a monk at Master Seung Sahn’s temple in Korea ☺️🙏🏻
I lived in Korea for 9 years. I consider it as kind of a second home to me. Wish I could stay there for the rest of my life.
k drama life ?
@@osip7315 No, K Dramas are not an accurate portrayal of what Korea is actually like.
@@elzoog alcohol abuse, mafia, chaebols, lowest fertility rate, maniacal regime next door, patriarchy, maybe k dramas are a bit tame compared to the real ?
@@osip7315 China is not actually that much of a threat to South Korea. There is alcohol abuse, but that is improving and is nothing compared to the drug abuse that exists in the United States. It is true that they have a low fertility rate, but that might be corrected once that becomes too much of a problem. The Koreans today, hate what they call 3D jobs (dirty, dangerous, difficult) and so they hire foreigners to do them. However, as soon as the foreigners commit a terrorist attack, South Korea won't be like America and say "We need to promote diversity" and will deport them.
Even with those problems, I would rather live in Korea because they have a good public transportation structure, WAY cheaper rent than what you would see in the U.S. (unless for some reason you HAVE to live in Seoul). You won't have coke heads bothering you (maybe the occasional homeless person) or people shooting up schools. You can WALK (read WALK) to the nearest store to get food (i.e. you don't need a car like you do in the U.S.).
Sorry, but South Korea is just better than the U.S. even with the problems you mentioned.
After arriving in America, Seung Sahn settled in Providence, Rhode Island and established his first US Zen center there.
The Providence Zen Center is now located in Cumberland, Rhode Island, on Pound Hill Road, a winding country road.
It's a startling sight when it first comes into view.
I’ve had the pleasure of attending PZC fr the past 2 years. I’m so grateful for the people Ive met there, they are a blessing in my life
I truly love the simplicity of this.
I've heard it said that people and dogs are so close because humans and wolves are the 2 most successful pack hunters on Earth and have compatible social hierachies. If dogs had evolved the ability to think, maybe Ziggy would be doing the vid and Brad would be barking in the background?
Very butterfly-y..
This is such crazy timing! I happened to follow the Kwan Um School of Zen on Facebook a few weeks ago … never heard of them nor of Seung Sahn until then … but their postings and interpretations are so clear and compelling. Definitely need to read the book.
Seung Sahn’s “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha” was my first Zen book….(got me hooked)…a classic, highly recommended….!
korean zen is actually a lot more popular by numbers in North America... I think due to Seung Sahn's very simple straightforward attitude 🤷
Some say he was the greatest zen teacher of this century
He spreqd the teaching all over the world
Almost every country haz a kwan um school
The last century. This century is the 21st century.
Viva Ziggy!!
Thanks Brad. One of the most helpful talks I heard 25 years ago was called "Buddhism and Zen" (sorry i can't remember who gave it), and your summary of Seung Sahn's teaching builds on that in a very nice way.
Also the garden is fabulous!
What is the sound of one dog barking....
Thank you Brad, always coming up with something interesting and I love your garden and Ziggy’s antics! 👍
Re: the early part of this video when you were talking about someone collecting your stuff, etc. When we had a center, people would often suggest to us what we “should,” do about something. We say, “ Great idea! Why don’t you get some people together and take care of it?” And that was the end of that. 😂
I was introduced to Seung Sahn by the “Daily Zen” calendar some 15 years ago. Even in the few lines quoted in that calendar, he caught my interest.
Keep barking Ziggy.
I think you need to be in a protected environment, like a monastery, in order to stay in that state. Ramakrishna experiencing the pain of an oxen he saw being whipped, comes to mind. If you are so deeply merged with everything, how do you drive, for instance, when you are aware of being each driver? Try getting on the expressway!
My intuitive Self laughed at this thank you maybe you can do one of these talks about how that happens and how it gets moved to tears all it's emotional responses I love petting my neighbors dogs over the fence too give Ziggy a nice head scratch and love from me keep having a good time all the time Brad
Nice, thank you.
Well it turned out that it is, after all, not that simple and just "intuition" and "don't know" mind are a lousy shortcut. Seung Sahn turned out to be a sexual predator, and the only difference between him and Sogyal Rinpoche was that Kwan Um succeeded in sweeping it under a rug and saying it was not a big deal.
I thought you were gonna say “I tested the old woman and defeated her for you”.
I love Seung Sahn so much. Wanting Enlightenment is a Big Mistake!
Thank you
Thanks. I am interested in the Kwan Um School of Zen now because I want more practice. I am leery of Zen Centers in general, maybe because of your books?
The simplification of teachings is indeed really important and as you know, is a big theme in Japanese history, with separate Zen, Shin, and Nichiren Buddhism coming out of the chaos of trying to grasp just what Tendai practice to use in Kamakura Japan, when the populace faced great desperation in a time of national crisis.
I've watched a lot of videos from the (American) Tendai Buddhist Center and the problem remains--there is so much doctrine, they are lost in the sauce. Tendai is so comprehensive, essentially teaching ALL schools of Buddhism in one. As much as I think a multiplicity of teachings make for broader-based appeal, almost all the dharma talks are more like history and doctrine lessons.
Check out Blue Heron Zen community online. I’ve gone for 12 years and I know shit about Buddhism, lol.
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Keith from The Office would love this!
re 2:51, in hindi/sanskrit the '..heen' suffix translates to '..lacking'
(- eg netraheen translates to 'netra-lacking' , netra = vision , so this means 'blind' )
so hinayana translates to without-vehicle, which , my guess is, refers to "that group of buddhism which doesn't have an officially/state recognised organization" - correct me if i am wrong but the Buddha's Buddhism existed as a thing but not a state-recognized thing until later
Thanks
Ziggy doesn't know 😅
Well as Tim McCarthy said, you get a grade from a zen master when you answer a koan, therefore it's appropriate to give a grade for Buddhist study. Given that, wouldn't it make sense to organize and systematize your teachings?
Hmmm not sure if by don't know mind he has just meant intuition. It'd be interesting to hear some kwan um masters commenting on this. But the truth is - this is not xlear teaching. Most people probably do not get what kind of state of mind it is (inclusing me). Masters get it. But it is like saying "just do the back flip. It's there. Just try try try thousands times
Just finished it as one of the first books on Buddhism that I've read. I also had lots of fun reading it. One thing bothered me - the way he talked about the Absolute felt like talking about brahman (some underlying substance of all things that's non changing) but I don't know much about buddhism and braminism, so maybe it's only my impression.
Btw, your garden looks great!
i am sure it's related. the Bhagavad Gita kinda connected the dots for me there.
@@s3sellsword Sure! But isn't buddhism opposed to this view? Buddhists realise that there's no atman, not that atman is somehow brahman
@@ClippyDoGmaybe, maybe not. i just found in the Gita the way Krishna describes the self and brahman and what you see when you meditate, is similar to what zen dudes describe. when your thoughts are gone and you're sitting in nothing, there is something still there. the true self, brahman, atman, your neighbor dave, etc.
Brad, bought last book last week. Do you get royalties when buying second hand? Keep safe
When a book is sold new, Brad gets a cut as royalties. When a book is sold secondhand... the seller gets 100%. I mean, if you sold a book to your friend Jeb you would get 100% of the proceeds right?
Your dog has eyes like the clown's in the remake of Stephen King's "It"
is that flannel from Old Navy?
I can't remember where I got it. Probably not Old Navy. Nothing against them, but I usually don't go there.
🙏👍🧘♀️
Your history is off, my friend. Most famous book: Dropping Ashes on the Buddha. Seung Sahn originally "set up shop" in Providence, RI first attracting students from Brown University.
Compass of Zen is the most famous one to me!
His first residence was 137 Doyle Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island.
@@HardcoreZenspeaking of books, I ordered 3 of yours over 2 months ago. The bookstore said that the people on your end have to wait for a reprint or something. Might want to look into it. At 19$ a book that's a lot of money for me. Thanks
@@TYPHON2713 Thanks for buying the books! I think I get about $1 per book sold, about 3 years after they sell.
@@HardcoreZen if that's true, you are really getting screwed. I ordered from a kinda mom and pop bookstore that's really good usually. That seems really unfair to you. They barely give you any money, charge 18.99, and take a really long time to deliver, if they fulfill the order at all...
Clear mind
Clear mind
Clear mind
Don't know
I have a question, did the Buddha have "haters" either way, yes or no. Id be interested in a video on this 😊
He had Devadatta, who tried to kill him. So yes. I've never researched this story in detail. I'll look it up and see if there's anything I can do a video about there.
Thank you!
How do you know that our ancestors didn't survive through their enlightened intuition, rather than by thinking? And only thereafter did they become muddled due the inner monologue called 'thinking?'
I'm sure that was part of it, too. But I'm also sure brain power was what got us through a lot or our evolution. An animal like us with the brain power of a chimp wouldn't survive long. Chimps are like 1/3 or 1/2 the weight and size of a human and have something like 5 times the physical strength. It's crazy how much stronger other animals are.
@@HardcoreZen Yes but one should assume that the quality of both our insight and thinking are 'proportional' to our 'brain power', and that the quality of our insight also separates us from the apes and other animals.
@@JimTempleman It's impossible to know for sure, but I tend to think most other animals have a very strong sense of intuition. I think much of what we call "instinct" is intuition.
@@HardcoreZen I think thinking was (& is) built atop intuition. But surely I 'just don't know.'
I encountered Seung Sahn's sayings on the Kwan Um interweb : his crazy stories gave me faith in zen again - I was most upset when I heard that he became a bad boy, probably victim of his own big guru status.
His explanation for his "bad boy" behavior was probably more damning than the behavior itself:
"I had to find some people I could trust."
Why can't we always follow the precepts?...don't knooooooow
Behavior is more important than precepts. Especially when they contradict one another. Once known, some things can not be unknown.