Beginning Zen Training | Part II
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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The Zen Gateway was founded in 2012 by Michael Haggiag and Martin Goodson. Martin has been a teacher at the London Zen Temple (Shobo An) and the London Buddhist Society since 2003, and is also our resident teacher at The Zen Gateway.
They both trained in the Rinzai Zen lineage under Ven. Myokyo-ni (Daiyu Myokyo Zenji), who trained for 12 years at Daitoku-ji Zen Training Monastery in Kyoto under Master Sesso Soho and Master Kannun Sojun.
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I just discovered you, Martin Goodson. Thank you for your clear talks. Nice voice.
Thank you .
Your observation of how directing internal dialogue and turning it into the path was so profoundly touching... it finally clicked
Very insightful and articulated so well. This practise inteags me. Thanks so much for uploading
I like everything you said.
Thank you
zen buddhism is letting go of everything even your own life ... nothing will be left but just awareness and wholeheartedly intentions and actions
Simply beautiful
Nice,very clear. Thank you.
Sadhu brother!
🙏🙏🙏
I have been practising Zen Buddhism for a while and I do love its principles. I do however find it incredibly difficult to A) stick to a routine and B) sit down without incurring any major physical pains. Basically, yes it's fantastic but practice is easier said than done!
Fabio Casula My Suggestion is to start small and build up. If you are having difficulty with sitting meditation then intersperse it with walking meditation.
Best wishes
If you find sitting on the floor too much you can also sit on a chair. You might like to try interspersing the sitting meditation with some walking meditation.
Thoroughly enjoyed both videos. Is there a 3rd video in the series?
Not as such but you will find many more talks on our RUclips channel and also plenty of practical tips for practice on our website www.thezengateway.com Thanks for your comment.
I was wondering the same thing
@@bobmilleit1976 Hi, We have a lot of practical video talks on our channel and more info for practice at www.thezengateway.com
Zen to me is like spiritual boot camp or militarized spirituality. The Buddha's message was about letting go, clinging to nothing, not binding and conforming.
I think that the point of forms is to free you, not bind you.
@@bayreuth79 Yes, that is right. We give ourselves into the form and are not bound by it. So the very formal deportment of the Zendo is not the same form as we use walking down the street. Hence, we are not caught by the form but are able to adapt to it smoothly depending upon the situation.
Thank you for the video. I'm new to your channel. Just subscribed :)
A Ginger Penguin....lol....
So does a dog have buddha nature?
Now there's a question!
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From the Nirvana sutra: How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings are fully and completely endowed with the wisdom and strength of the Tathagata (Buddha nature).
Turning someone away from a zendo for acting in alignment with their own nature, doesn’t seem very zen…
Good question. The difference is that the true nature (or Buddha nature, true essence etc..), is a nature that's free of 'I' 'me' and 'mine', so 'my own nature' is not what is being talked about here. One of the defining characteristics of Zen is to directly confront this 'I' to bring it out in the open. You could say that the teacher plays the role of demon, who is always saying to us , 'look, see your own face, this is who you really are...'
Dominic (not the author of this video) from The Zen Gateway