It's the you and divinity and so forth, silence, order, peace, harmony and so forth. But if you really stay with it, that is a big cause of trouble. Because your mind becomes big enough to accept some other thing. I went to the university which is called Bethel College. The students really bite me because they don't know exactly what Buddhism is. They don't know exactly what emptiness is. They don't know what exactly the meaning of Buddha. If I explain the emptiness and so forth, they really want to bite me.

[01:04]

The first time, I was very confused. The second time, I was still confused a little bit. The third time, I was confused a little bit. The fourth time, I was okay, finally. Then, if you want to bite me, please bite me. But why is it they have to bite me? Because they really want to stay with a certain idea of spiritual rapport, spiritual communion. With him, with divinity, with Buddha and with all sentient beings. If you do so, your mind becomes simultaneously vain now. Because it looks like looking at something through the telescope. If you see something through the telescope, the vision is vain now.

[02:08]

You understand pretty well. The Buddhism always points out that. Don't look at something through your telescope. Throw away all environment, good or bad, let alone. That means throw away. See something not with a telescope. See something without having anything at all. It means continue to ask to yourself, are you alright? Your life is really alive with your all sentient beings? If you don't, if your life doesn't work, why don't you be careful to take care of your life? If your life works with all sentient beings, that's fine, but continue to watch it carefully. Because everything is changing constantly.

[03:10]

So, Shakyamuni Buddha said to Moggallana, he said, Moggallana, Moggallana, do not be given to self-dissolution within the sacred of silence. Don't stay within the sacred of silence. Don't stay within the spiritual rapport or the idea of the Atman, whatever you say, Atman or divinity or spiritual communion and so forth. Become one with the mind in the realm of the sacred of silence. In the realm of the sacred of silence is completely beyond the matter of discussion. Anyway, continue to be one with the mind. Mind means the daily living. Watch out, becoming one.

[04:16]

When you see, when the time to get up comes, get up. When the time to eat breakfast comes, eat breakfast. Fortunately, unfortunately, anyway. Become one with the mind in the realm of the sacred of silence. Concentrate on the mind in the realm of the sacred of silence. Concentrate on. Concentration means to have right acceptance. Right acceptance is to transmit something from one to another. To transmit something from one to another means to experience self-awareness. Anyway, until you can say ha-ha, anyway, you continue to do that.

[05:18]

Not understanding something only with your head. If you understand something with your head, that's great, that's great. Keep it warm in your heart. Continue to act, continue to act toward it. At that time, that knowledge continues to speak to you. You can, sooner or later you can listen to the sound which is true. So that is concentration. Concentration, concentrating on the mind in the realm of the sacred of silence. In the realm of the sacred of silence there is no excuse. Anyway, no excuse. I'm sorry for you. No excuse. You have to accept your life with no excuse. But to accept in the proper way with no excuse doesn't mean to accept your life blindly.

[06:27]

To accept your life with self-awareness. This is important. That's why you have to act to yourself. You have to ask to yourself, how are you? Good morning? Okay. In order to wake up, wake up, wake up, continue to wake up. Independence, when I was a college student, there is a very interesting story. The students, in an examination, one of the students wrote the answer to the question of one of the important teachings of Buddhism based on emptiness. Emptiness is pronounced in Japanese as ku, ku, K-U, ku.

[07:35]

But on the other hand, the same word, letters, in Japanese, no, different term, different term, but pronunciation is same, ku, as a ku. That ku is to eat, to eat, to eat. But this student wrote the, explained the emptiness, ku, using the term eat, eat. Then when after the examination, the teacher came to the classroom and told us that there are no excuses for the students' poor vocabulary. If you are in doubt, please check it out in your dictionary again.

[08:42]

Then one student, and they explained that some students use the ku as eat, emptiness as eat. That's a big mistake. Then the teacher advised to the students like this, if you are in doubt, please check it again in your dictionary. Then the students had a very funny feeling because he said, teacher, well, I'm not in doubt. If you are not in doubt, how can you check it out? How can you check it out in the dictionary? We are always doing so. If you don't ask to yourself, without anyone to compel you to ask, anyway, just to accept something as it is, not to accept your life blindly.

[09:55]

That's why I told you to accept is to transmit something from one to another. It means you have to transmit the term emptiness in a proper way from one to another. That is important. Then to transmit the term emptiness in a proper way from one to another means to be aware, to be aware to the proper level of what emptiness is. You have to awaken to it. In order to awaken to, you have to anyway check up from time to time, not always. If you check up always, you will be crazy. Because you are confused by the dictionary. So if you are in doubt, check up from time to time.

[10:58]

That's why Mugaruna asked to himself, why is it Shakyamuni Buddha taught us, you should think of dharma and science. This is not a story, this is really a way of taking care of human life. So to awaken to is to check up from time to time. To check up from time to time is to ask to yourself, regardless of whether you can listen to the sound from the circumstances which you have created. It doesn't matter. Continue to ask to yourself. Hello, Karage, how are you? Fine? Are you sure? You're not? That's okay. Continue to ask. Be careful. Check up your life. This is called Zen, the Zen.

[12:01]

Shikan means the Zen. Shikan means consistently or wholeheartedly. Ta means to devote yourself to the Zen. To devote yourself to means to act toward, continually. Don't wait. Don't wait. If you wait, something, nothing comes up to you. Anyway you have to act toward. This is called to save all sentient beings, to help all sentient beings. Without this, you cannot help. How can you help? Anyway, just help. Just act toward. Ask toward yourself. Ask toward trees. At that time, anyway, trees, birds, the sun, the moon, speaks to you. Very natural.

[13:04]

This is Ta, to devote yourself to. Za means two men sit on the earth, not one man. Zen is tranquility. Tranquility means to manifest to simplicity in one's life. This is tranquility. So, we can understand the full manifestation of simplicity in one's life through this story. Asking. Bogarana asked to himself, why? The Khenpo Buddha told us, thinking of the monk and the sacred silence, throwing away all environment, good or bad, right or wrong. Anyway, continue to ask to yourself, regardless of whether you can listen to the sound from others.

[14:12]

Continue to ask to yourself. Act to yourself. Ask to yourself. At that time, universal energy, Buddha helps. That is called Buddha. Buddha helps you. Buddha is with you constantly. At that time, your life is peaceful, harmonious. Don't wait for anything to come up. Nothing to come up without doing, without asking to yourself, without acting to yourself. If you want to help yourself, if you want to help others, if you want to compose a poem, if you want to project yourself into the tree, anyway, first of all, you have to act toward it. At that time, the tree reacts to you.

[15:12]

This is an antified practice, which is called Shikantaza. Shikantaza. Thank you very much for your attention. I enjoyed very much being with you for two weeks in the city center, in the Green Gorge, in Passaha. Please practice with Buddha. Thank you.

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