Good morning. Good morning. It's my pleasure and honor to introduce you, Tsuda Roshi, who I think represents what the evolution of Zen practice in Japan and beyond. And as much as that in addition to having traditional Zen training running a temple and dealing with an extremely priest, in the same in Japan, but also as part of the temple where there's a variety of other artisans that you're still there, having a program on the radio. And then part of the Board of Education in the local city. I think there should be an extreme in the inside of education first of all, and how Zen practices by an English router, you know, router and celebration.

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So thank you very much for the syllabus for coming. Thank you very much. Please put your hands in Gaosho. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you. I arrived here in America on September 4th. And in the few days that I've been here in America, I have had a chance to meet a lot of very diligent and wholehearted people.

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as well as many Buddhists. And that applies to this Zen Center as well. I've had a chance to encounter many Buddhists here. There's a following poem written by a poet named Imakawa Kuniko-san. And it's a very short poem about having met many Buddhas. Statues of Buddha lined up in a row, seeing them now.

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All of them are figures of Buddhas who have withstood suffering. Beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha and then with the success of ancestors who have passed on the Dharma, all of them have faced suffering, have confronted suffering, and all of them have been able to pass through suffering.

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Shakyamuni Buddha was not able to escape from the four basic sufferings, birth, death, old age and sickness. And in the process of confronting these sufferings, he realized that there was a self that was trying to escape from them. And then he proceeded to walk a path of confronting or facing these sufferings straight on. But how is it for us?

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If we are face-to-face with suffering, are we able to confront them, or face them straight on, or do we find rather that we try to avoid them, or escape from them in some way? 律法は苦から出発をして苦を抱えて Buddhism is a teaching and a practice of facing suffering or should I say it begins from suffering and then it's a matter of facing suffering and then really Hakaido means to embrace it. and by embracing it, going beyond it. This is what the Buddha realized through the process of his practice.

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At the time of his awakening, and I'm sure you all know this expression, he said, I, the great earth, and all living beings have attained the way. Mountains, rivers, grass, and tree. trees. All things have realized buddhahood. In other words, we could say that Shakyamuni Buddha realized that our life is not independent, but rather that it's connected to all living beings.

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This is what we experience in our daily lives. Nevertheless, in our everyday life, this is something that is very difficult for us to actually experience for ourselves. 着孫は私と健在と私と畳と私と空気と私と窓と私と壁と In other words, we could say that Shakyamuni Buddha said that he as well as the lectern, he as well as the tatami, he as well as the windows, the walls, and all things are one.

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Or we could say that they were a reflection of himself. It may seem, in fact it does seem, that this is something we can realize intellectually. But nevertheless...

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