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Embracing Emptiness: A Zen Journey
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Talk by Fall Pp at City Center on 2020-09-30
The talk focuses on a Zen service conducted at City Center, emphasizing the recitation and meaning of the Heart Sutra. This involves highlighting the concepts of form and emptiness, the Three Refuges, and the Bodhisattva's path. The talk underscores the dedication of merit to key figures in the Zen tradition and explores the transformative power of the Prajnaparamita mantra.
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Heart Sutra: Central to the talk, this text is explored in the mantra's context as a means to understand form as emptiness and vice versa, eliminating various hindrances to achieve enlightenment.
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Prajnaparamita Mantra: Discussed as a powerful tool for enlightenment and alleviation of suffering, illustrating its crucial role in the practice of Zen Buddhism.
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Three Refuges: The speaker references taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, which are foundational concepts for practitioners on the path to enlightenment.
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Historical Figures in Zen: The dedication of merit mentions Shakyamuni Buddha, Mahapajapati, Bodhidharma, Ehe Doge, and Shogaku Shunryu, recognizing their contributions to the development and continuation of Zen practices.
AI Suggested Title: "Embracing Emptiness: A Zen Journey"
The text for the rope chant is available in the chat. Thank you. Feel far beyond form and emptiness.
[01:29]
Wearing that Tathagata stitching, sealing all beings. Good morning. Now, morning service from the Buddha Hall at City Center. The service will include bowing and chanting. You can follow along with the chant card that you see in the chat. Let's wait just a few moments while the assembly prepares. From beginningless greed, hate, and delusion, born through body, speech, and mind, I now flee a vow.
[04:50]
All my ancient twisted karma, beginningless greed, hate, and delusion. Born through body, speech, and mind, I now flee a vow. All my ancient mystic are off. From beginningless greed, hate, and delusion, Body, speech, and mind I now will flee above I take refuge in Buddha Before all beings Immersing body and mind Deeply in the way Awakening true mind
[06:00]
take refuge in Dhamma, before all beings, entering deeply the merciful ocean of Mauda's way. I take refuge in Sangha, before to everyone, free from hindrance. heart of great perfect wisdom sutra
[07:43]
kiteshvata bodhisattva when deeply practising krasna-dhada-nithaklili so that all five aggregates are empty and thus relieved all suffering shariputra form does not differ from emptiness emptiness does not differ from form form Itself is emptiness. Emptiness itself forms sensations, perceptions, formations, and consciousness are also like this. Shariputra. All dharmas are marked by emptiness. They neither arise nor cease. Are neither defiled nor pure. Neither increase nor decrease. Therefore, there is no form no sensation no perception no formation no consciousness no eyes no ears no nose no tongue no body no mind no sight no sound no smell no taste no touch no object of mind no realm of sight no realm of mind consciousness
[09:19]
There is neither ignorance, nor extinction of ignorance, neither old age and death, nor extinction of old age and death. No suffering, no cause, no cessation, no path, no knowledge, and no attainment, with nothing to attain. A Bodhisattva realize unblast your path, And thus the mind is without hindrance, without hindrance. There is no fear far beyond all inverted views. One realizes nirvana, all Buddhas of past, present and future rely on. Prajnaparamita, and thereby a saint and surpassed comely perfect enlightenment, therefore know the Prajnaparamita as the great miraculous mantra, the great bright mantra, the supreme mantra, the incomparable
[10:37]
A mantra which removes all suffering and is true, not false. Therefore, we proclaim the Prajnaparamita mantra, the mantra that says, We awaken Buddha's compassion and luminous mirror wisdom. Chanting the Heart of Great Perfect Wisdom Sutra, we dedicate this merit to our original ancestor in India, great teacher, Shakyamuni Buddha. Our first woman ancestor, great teacher, Mahapajapati. Our first ancestor in China, great teacher, Bodhidharma. Our first ancestor in Japan, great teacher, Ehe Doge. Our compassionate founder, great teacher, Shogaku Shunryu.
[11:45]
Gratefully, we offer this virtue to all beings. Bodhisattva, Mahasattva, Wisdom beyond the sun, Mahaprasya, Aminta.
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