On this morning, I would like to give a few instructions about bow, kingpin, shashu and song. Bow is to express your best respect to the Buddha. So, you have to, you should make others, you should make others feel, feel Buddha by your practice vow. So you do your best to do bow.

[01:09]

I will show your own bow. There are many types of the way of bowing. make, can make his hip higher. Like this. You should, you should make the hip lower as much as possible. For when he kneeling, he kneeling to the floor, I know it is very difficult for Westerners to lean to the floor straightly like this.

[02:13]

But you should never do like that, you know, like this. Before touching your knee to the floor, you will touch your hand to the floor. So like this. And you touch your knee to the floor. Like this. You're standing up. you did in the same way that this. You did like this and like in standing up before

[03:15]

Apart from, you know, before, in standing up, you did like this. You did like this. This is very easy. But this is the type of old man. or disease, or patient, or lazy man. Like this. A Japanese old man, when Japanese old man sit in the way of Caesar, he said, Yokura-sha, like this, yokura-sha. It says yokura-sha, yokura-sha.

[04:31]

So this is type of very old man and patient or lazy. So I know it is very difficult to kneel to the floor straightly like this. But you have to practice more and more. So first, you should put your hand like this, and knee to the floor, and touch your arms to the floor. And next, and touch your forehead. At the same time, you lift your arm like this.

[05:31]

Not like this. The whole arm. Lift the whole arm like this. And going down, in going down your arm, and lifting your forehead. And again, touch your forehead to the floor. At the same time, lift your hand, your arm. This. I'll continue to the soul three times. when you to lift arm to lift your arm this is to respect your best to express your best respect to the Buddha just as you

[06:56]

You hold Buddha's legs. Buddha's foot. Yes. Each of your activities involve your Buddha nature. So you have to make others feel Buddha by your practice bow or shash like this, doing shash, walking, whatever you do. So you have to do your best to do something.

[08:01]

So, with shas, you hold your left hand like this, and covered with your right hand, and close to the middle, you know, What would you say here? Diaphragm. Mm? Diaphragm. Yeah. Di- Diaphragm. Di- Diaphragm. Di- So you can, you can make a hand straight. And don't touch your arm to the floor, to your body like this. This is leiji type.

[09:02]

So like this. And your strength, when you stand up, your strength is put on the bottom of the belly, over here. So it They have to be pushed forward a little bit. And you have to open your legs about this size. And stretch your back and your head is kept straight. Not like this. This is a type of underdog. So to keep standing up is to do practicing of your zazen.

[10:16]

Next, I will talk to talk about kin-hin. It is important for your kin-hin to be in accord with your breath. You have to adjust your breath in the same way in your practicing Zazen. At the same time, you have to adjust your step. So inhaling, inhaling in, inhaling your breath,

[11:22]

You go forward, your step go forward. Half step, not one step, yes. Half step. This time, your toes, only your toes is attached to the floor. not hold your legs. It's this, this. So in inhaling your breath, your right hand and right legs is go for half step. In exhaling, your heel goes down.

[12:29]

At the same time, your left heel goes up a little bit. And inhaling again, your left leg goes goes forward in half step. And in exhaling, your left heel goes down. At the same time, your right leg's heel goes up like this. King Hing is made in this way.

[13:31]

Will you try again? Will you try King Hing? Please stand up. Stop your walking and make slight bow with that gassho and start to walk.

[14:41]

You're going to see. Thank you very much.

[16:28]

After this period of zazen will be over, look at your shoes. One of your shoes faces to the north, the other one faces the south you should place your shoes in order neatly or you will find a shoe box which we had used as a bookshelf you can use that bookshelf as your shoes. So as much as possible you have to put your shoes in the box neatly.

[17:44]

When your mind is kept in calmness, your shoes are kept in order in certain place. This is important for Zen practitioners. To put your shoes neatly in a certain regular place is to practice your zazen. During period of satsin, you should take your every energy to take care of each of your activities with care and sincerity.

[19:19]

Thank you very much.

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