The Koans mentioned both point to don't know mind as an experience as opposed to a rationalization. When I ask the question what is the sound of one hand clapping I am pointed to an experience of not knowing the answer. When I ask the question what is your face before your parents were born the experience of not knowing the answer is the answer. It points to don't know as a cultivatable skill that allows one not to have to need answers or to be fixated in space or time by answers. Don't know mind or trained ignorance is not about giving up on having answers though. It's a different way of approaching life is all. From don't know to get to know. But without the need to have answers less bias will enter into this new way of seeing hearing feeling smelling and tasting the world. When people look for answers they expect an answer and this expectation causes a distortion in perception and awareness. Once the need for answers is dealt with answers still come but they are no longer driven and are more representative of reality as a whole.
Thank you for reading my haiku on the air! Really appreciate it. Your talk moved me ... gave me a new perspective on sitting ... an interesting way to frame meditation...
Also thank you for this video, I think it validates a lot of my personal feelings on this matter. At certain times since the start of practice I've been in scenarios where I thought a zen teaching was a fitting thing to help someone else in need, and in doing so, I felt a certain level of authenticity despite putting myself into a role I did not feel like I entirely fit considering the length of said practice and the level of my studies. I think there's definitely something to this.
Completely unrelated but if you live near the banks of the Danube I would suggest that you read "The Willows by Algernon Blackwood. Especially in the Season of the Spooky.
About 15 years ago my mom paid a "top astrologer " like 250 a piece for her to do the astrology charts for me my mom and dad. The astrologer then gives you a 1 hour call w her to read your chart and predict your future. She said "your a writer ", "you've been published.. for poetry right?", you speak a foreign language but not very well... Japanese isn't it?" She ended with "in 5 years you will be rich and famous like Mick Jagger!"😂😂😂 (seriously the last thing i want.) Then she emailed me the audio file of our talk. But... its the wrong file. Instead it was an hour and a half long phone conversation with my parents. Asking Tons of personal questions😂😂😂 I was mad at my mom for her spending money on it from the beginning. And even more mad at the con-lady. I watched you and Brad on guru viking, and i know you both consider what you do as Zentertainment, but i learn so much from both your's and his books and videos, probably more than i learn from just reading famous zen books. You both pass on your teacher's teachings. You both talk about Zen from a point of view that a lot of people can easily understand. Heck, i even sat on one of your yt lives. My question is: If what you do its just entertainment, yet you teach dharma. How are you both not actually teaching? Sry for the long comment. I just learn so much from you both, i dont understand how thats not teaching.
Thank you my friend, this is a great story! That must've been preeeetttttyyyy interesting listening to the recording of that personal reading! As for your question, I think if you're learning a lot from Brad and me it's because you're doing the work yourself based on what we're providing/saying. So, well done on that. It's you, not either of us, I'd say.
20:40 "We all share one Buddha nature". How is this so? Are there many Buddhas or just one, pretending to be many? (I'm thinking of the Vajrayana, where there's countless buddhas, peaceful and wrathful included)
That was great-thank you.
The Koans mentioned both point to don't know mind as an experience as opposed to a rationalization. When I ask the question what is the sound of one hand clapping I am pointed to an experience of not knowing the answer. When I ask the question what is your face before your parents were born the experience of not knowing the answer is the answer. It points to don't know as a cultivatable skill that allows one not to have to need answers or to be fixated in space or time by answers. Don't know mind or trained ignorance is not about giving up on having answers though. It's a different way of approaching life is all. From don't know to get to know. But without the need to have answers less bias will enter into this new way of seeing hearing feeling smelling and tasting the world. When people look for answers they expect an answer and this expectation causes a distortion in perception and awareness. Once the need for answers is dealt with answers still come but they are no longer driven and are more representative of reality as a whole.
I needed someone to make some sense today. Thank you so much!
Man, I need someone to make sense for me today, so thank YOU!
You make my day in fact my evening!!
🙏
Wow, thanks
Thank you for reading my haiku on the air! Really appreciate it. Your talk moved me ... gave me a new perspective on sitting ... an interesting way to frame meditation...
Wonderful! It was a beautiful haiku.
Shaman and showman!
That sounds like a great title for a Rick and Morty episode!
Big fan of The Mentalist, which is a great tv show, this description of so called mediums was pretty uncanny!
Also thank you for this video, I think it validates a lot of my personal feelings on this matter. At certain times since the start of practice I've been in scenarios where I thought a zen teaching was a fitting thing to help someone else in need, and in doing so, I felt a certain level of authenticity despite putting myself into a role I did not feel like I entirely fit considering the length of said practice and the level of my studies. I think there's definitely something to this.
Thank you my friend.
Thank you
You're welcome
The distinction is self-other sincerity (which you just said as I'm typing) "This mind is Buddha mind." (Buddha Nature - again you rascal) lol.
Buddha nature...rascally indeed!!
Completely unrelated but if you live near the banks of the Danube I would suggest that you read "The Willows by Algernon Blackwood. Especially in the Season of the Spooky.
I'm on it, thank you!!
Ok, reading it now. Amazing and exactly what I was looking for reading-wise. Thank you.
@@zenconfidential25 Happy Halloween
Wait...it's Halloween??
About 15 years ago my mom paid a "top astrologer " like 250 a piece for her to do the astrology charts for me my mom and dad. The astrologer then gives you a 1 hour call w her to read your chart and predict your future. She said "your a writer ", "you've been published.. for poetry right?", you speak a foreign language but not very well... Japanese isn't it?" She ended with "in 5 years you will be rich and famous like Mick Jagger!"😂😂😂 (seriously the last thing i want.)
Then she emailed me the audio file of our talk.
But... its the wrong file. Instead it was an hour and a half long phone conversation with my parents. Asking Tons of personal questions😂😂😂
I was mad at my mom for her spending money on it from the beginning. And even more mad at the con-lady.
I watched you and Brad on guru viking, and i know you both consider what you do as Zentertainment, but i learn so much from both your's and his books and videos, probably more than i learn from just reading famous zen books. You both pass on your teacher's teachings. You both talk about Zen from a point of view that a lot of people can easily understand. Heck, i even sat on one of your yt lives.
My question is: If what you do its just entertainment, yet you teach dharma. How are you both not actually teaching?
Sry for the long comment. I just learn so much from you both, i dont understand how thats not teaching.
Thank you my friend, this is a great story! That must've been preeeetttttyyyy interesting listening to the recording of that personal reading! As for your question, I think if you're learning a lot from Brad and me it's because you're doing the work yourself based on what we're providing/saying. So, well done on that. It's you, not either of us, I'd say.
@@zenconfidential25 wow, thanks man. I just try my best.
@@TYPHON2713 Me too (on a good day!);)
20:40 "We all share one Buddha nature". How is this so? Are there many Buddhas or just one, pretending to be many? (I'm thinking of the Vajrayana, where there's countless buddhas, peaceful and wrathful included)
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I just bought a witch hat
And I just bought witch gloves!!
Get to authenticity by being inauthentic? Are you sure?
Who said anything about authenticity?
You don't think that spirituality is about authenticity?
@@phantasticflox Maybe, but who and what is it that is being authentic to whom and to what?
@zenconfidential25 Authenticity is being authentic to itself.
Sounds like it's chasing its own tail! ;)