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Entering the Buddha Way - Class 11 of 14

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O7/28/2008, Ryushin Paul Haller, class at City Center.
These recordings are from a three-week study intensive offered in 2008 by then-abbot Paul Haller. These talks provide an excellent introduction to basic Buddhism and Zen.

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The talk discusses the interplay between energy and mindfulness in Zen practice, emphasizing the importance of conscious, non-mechanical engagement with one's environment and relationships. Through this engagement, practitioners can cultivate deeper connections and awareness, enabling an experience of the world that goes beyond a self-centered perspective. The discussion explores the philosophical underpinnings of energy in practice, referencing instances of mindful presence and the transformative power of genuine relational interactions.

  • Native American Tradition: Mentioned as a metaphor for two aspects of the self: one being aggressive, the other generous. The idea is to feed the aspect that one wishes to cultivate.
  • Zen Teachings and Jhana: References the concept of energy in the context of Zen and meditation practices, likening the "word according to me" to something that can energize one's meditative absorption.

AI Suggested Title: Mindful Energy in Zen Practice

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You know, again, someone told me, for judging you earlier, the Dolphins chapter is tomorrow. This spirit of rock, I give you no sense, I give it my donation of $10,000 to help with, uh, with that, like, we sell it through the part of the rush. Cost, freedom, and courage in relationship to the sake of the surprise. Over the years, there's just a relationship with Sir Rod. Periodically, with donations, not so much money, a little bit of money back and forth, with a lot of new kind of donations. At last, to all, I did a benefit there. Jack Caldfield has done anything for us, but just sort of like

[01:01]

As they say, it took it to a new level. And that's what occurred to me. I thought, oh, now our relationship is different. We're not just sort of coincidentally to our center, geographically close to each other, but occasionally we do gestures. This is not a symbolic division. Here's a hundred bucks, you know. It would like something. Rather than deep sense of connection, of mutuality, of support, of character. This way we can influence the world.

[02:03]

We can influence our relationship to each other. Individually, institutionally. It's unbelievable, all the time. My mind immediately, sorry, oh, what can I do? And as I follow, I mean, just be thought. You're present here. I go to Ireland. I do a retreat. I'm in the west of Ireland. A retreat retreat. I think it's really served by a priest. It's very large. It's very cheap. So we all retreats. There's a cook there.

[03:04]

You know what that is. There's a coat with her, and she never cooked her. They deterred the foliage. You probably just have a great spirit. I mean, essentially, she thought, well, she's been mean to all the plates. They've been very, very good. It helped it to seem like every vegetable was cooked the exact same way you cooked potatoes. Anyway, what was it like? Well, I took all of my hands.

[04:06]

You know, you can't get out. Educator. So when we did early in the morning, it turned out that whoever a sport was hadn't showed up for work. So humans, you know, in the midst of what, yeah, it's on a tree. She could be fair. And this is working away, taking care of what we need to be taking care of. Do I have any sense of this other person in the show? So I'm like, well, I should help.

[05:07]

You know, and so I help somebody mostly. Get the stuff out there in that environment, all that sort of thing. I mean, it's some well-being prophets, you know. My appreciation for any group, a great group of your partner, you know, this beautiful work You never know any time to cook. You know, you're excited about how to cook. You know, like the way he engaged his job. After that, I'm doing the kitchen carpet, you know, in a row for some time. I'm trying to persuade him to put forward the dining room and thank him. Serapis with no mind can give you with no mind.

[06:13]

I think all of them started doing it once. Okay. Okay. Okay. It must be improved a little, and I think my attitude worked a lot. So I think the group got more delicious because of how I'm related to it. And we can go on quite a while, and I can give her justice here over It's not our comics or our guides, but we'll be interested in what this.

[07:16]

But what's true is how it's different to me, right? And so I'm going to speak to the group. I'm going to speak to Annie. Who and what? How well I appreciated and respected and enjoy many for being added. How does it work today? So certainly, you know, what I'm going to talk about today is energy. Energy is like relationships. I hope things are related to, I've ever seen you to engage or not. There were a lot of water lugs just sloughed on that little island where we dished water ranges apart.

[08:34]

The scientists had to rinse off the cups. It was a pleasant cup of cups, not worth the dollars. It reminded me of when we were in Vancouver. And the system there is a big way that they serve the food. You sit down and they serve the food. You eat the food and then they come and take away your plates and cups. And I said, it's over the end. You know how to say, well, for us, it's part of our spirit to practice and help serve. because it helps us have a relationship and the whole activity, and it helps us to be more frigid. So would you mind if we helped put things out of it, pick them up?

[09:34]

And of course, again, she said, sure, go ahead, do it. So I'm wondering if we would go back, leading the heart of the notes there, at the Great Forty-Sight of the Black, could think of someone else, have a relationship to whom, wait a small foot to bring the bride. It has the benefit of being more thinking and connected to this part of our communal life. And if you don't like that, sir, here's a wonderful thing to do. But this is knowing, you know, that the world is here to serve me, you know. That's how it is.

[10:38]

It's something, something why it's not meant. some opportunity for connection, for relationship, is lost. You know, a little bit, but I don't even know if we had it. But I don't even know if it's possible to have it. The part of our show is why it is to constantly discover and act that's related. And besides, I mean, you take this to what you might call an element level. You know, I can't recall the experience when you cut off and become absorbed in the world according to me. It has a certain kind of energy, a certain kind of intensity, but it also has

[11:48]

Some kind of mysterious, any. Swirl or run. You know, interesting things to us are mysterious of mind. Oh. Hard hysteric. So he doesn't connect to the same source. Not because the world is there to serve us, but as we engage, as we experience connection, which is all we are able, some think this and why we

[12:52]

Something is awakened. Any becomes any when you go into the kitchen and say, how's it all? How are you doing? And when any becomes any, your body is important. That's how the food comes out. It makes So we've got to appreciate it comes a lot. Part of the challenge work with the conversion, it's almost happening on a non-verbal level. I can't do, can't see, can't hear it. the physicality of posture, the motion, the physical world of breath.

[14:01]

It's not everybody having a cognitive insight about that exchange that can go on to that take. But when we go to something like To the third of our practice and the marvelous opportunity of the machine is when we're in this intimate environment. Open, connected, allowed, engaged, related. If it's more accessible. Not to say the volte moment, what we're swirling into the world according to me, and it becomes powerful and mysterious.

[15:08]

Or maybe sometimes it's not mysterious, but it's captivatingly determined the exact world that In the Native American tradition, there are two entities. One is aggressive and demanding. The other one, it is generous and cut. Which one will borrow a cultural piece? Whichever one you think the most. I mean, when we feed them with feedback and energy. When this thought arises, how do we relate? To be grasped and let it reinforce an extent of the world according to me.

[16:23]

Well, you know, yesterday I was talking about what is the required mind? What is the practice of business that has a good? There's a pretty closing debate with, well, what does being there yet? What does being declared to be significant? that it's being energized by the natural power of the impaction of our life. Now, it would be wonderful if we were just in this state that the faint world was out and we were sitting there musing about, well, shall I or shall I not energize this? We're just, sure, a little bit. Today, we don't think it's great. kind of bit forward of the posterior.

[17:35]

But when it throws it before we even notice it, a lot of time. But even when we hear notice, sometimes it's helpful to just think about it as an energetic equation. It helps us Usually the content is what's most important. Before I engaged Annie, what was most important about Annie? My idea. My idea about the food, my idea about the cooking, my idea about what I thought should happen, what I thought should not happen. What would be that? What was the intended? allow the possibility of something on the edge of it. And to do that, we have to release the grasp of what is the edge of it.

[18:52]

And this is the trick part. We're going to struggle with how you lead, try to suppress it, stop it, in order to allow this beautiful other thing to happen. I would say, quickly, you have a beautiful theoretical answer, but actually, most of this massive line, in order for the learning process, try kind of stop eating me, yes. We've got bad words, and a good idea of making it. So I'm going to tell people that if you're having a process with your liberals of a complex, you know, psychological state, it's not that they're utterly bored with the process.

[20:13]

We hope you're saddled with the other. As you can see, well, but not many of me, it's physical sensation. that's most of it. It's so redemptive with a world of sport. Ready to register it to be energized rather than my storyline. This is the challenge for it's in our practice. And how do we cultivate the awareness to do it? Well, sometimes the word for energy is also trying for it as persistence.

[21:24]

And what we're looking for there is if we're looking for Trying to do it, trying to keep coming back to your body, your breath. Keep noticing the difference between being aware of thoughts and being captivated by thoughts. Notice the difference between trying to suppress experience and being aware A more eclimically experiencing the experience of the moment. How to cultivate that. Persistent of just constantly returning to basics.

[22:25]

Divide the breath. to suffer clearly with physical concession in case of culture. And it still is right to make sure of this intimate relating that lets every drink come to life. Not necessarily the cognitive practice, but it's an experience. The shadow of the death in which I write for persistence and diligence

[23:31]

is that our strategy can become sort of mechanical or dull, you know. It's almost like we can put ourselves into a mechanical process. It means that in some way when we go to sleep, I can just chug it along in that mechanical process. Sometimes you can notice this if you're touching your breath. Catching your breath. One. Think, think, [...] think. Two. Catching your breath. You're not taking your breath. Whatever strategy, whatever way we're coming out of our medication or mindfulness, It's an alive strategy.

[24:34]

It's totally liberated from what's happening. Did nobody see it? No. What's happening? What is the practice with? What happens with the practice? I'm not going to do this in a more extended way. How is your energy going during the machine? Would you energize if you take a nap on your breath? Or do you drink a cup of coffee? Or do you walk around Can this be a kind of exploration, of not just simply doing what you always do, of not just following habits of behavior, habits of mind, habits of thought and feeling, or smiling in certain situations in a particular way?

[26:10]

that are habitual. But the way through this, though, is habitus of death, you know. If we're not actually relating, we're not actually having an energetic state with the experience. We can just engage in kind of automatic response. Saying, quietly contained in a word according to me, and the way I respond in a word according to me. In that world, which is an inanimate object called reality. Inside the world, it ought to be. And I can have a written to me. That's what we have since. What is the world? What did your dreams say? What did your dreams say? So maybe it's a powerful thing to go with it.

[27:27]

I could say the narrowing circles. The rafters, the regional of this house of the water of the quirk, to me, has been taken away. The house is so well-earned. We need to just go to pity. But in a single moment, just let something rigid, let that energetic exchange This is what is beautiful. It's a faith environment.

[28:38]

And it's your example, he said, we forget yourself. It's not some great act of expression or control. Some great evil has been overcome. overpowered. You know, they just come to Annie and discover a pretty cool person there. She was cooking breakfast, and while she was cooking breakfast, particularly people by herself, she was also made with bread for lunch. And she was eating a special bread. It could look very attractive, and she was putting lots in her extra book. Took the person down in the face, and inside the world recording.

[29:38]

Me and I were just this person to wake, so I wake up just a little. I only trust this world of greater need, this world of development. The tools that I'm already glad I'm going to make a decision. Either I will give someone else the benefit, the merit of working this, or I'm just watching myself at Korea. How do I?

[30:43]

How is the village? And make sure we think simple acts like that. Open us up. We connect us. Because our human nature is constantly returning to the world according to You would think we have a great plan of that. You'd think it would be a great plan of that. You'd think it would be a great plan of that. It's not actually very comfortable with anything. So what's the area, guys, is often an interesting and helpful question. And let's watch, you know, let's watch the passion of our visit. Thoughts and memories come out.

[31:48]

It can infuse with significance, with emotion. Sweet people are from here and now into some other wrong being. And what thoughts very good enough. You only can watch. Watch how the world can be violent and dead Energized. What happened? We could construct a story about someone.

[32:49]

Across the bank, we'll be driving out. We could follow the algorithm, and we could think. I don't need to leave that. The stillness of energy was not to say, shut it all off. The stillness is to see the kind of being and relate to it. It's a lot of energy to both be incarcerated by us and try to shut it off. But to just try to see it and relate to it. feeling what the information.

[33:55]

What matter? What practice? A moment of greater need. A moment of connection. This is what the practice has. And what's a saint? You know, then you can watch as you walk around. Is that connectedness less? Is that connectedness more enduring if I walk a little slower? Or if that servant will comply with me, What's happening?

[35:06]

It's creating, to me, as well as everything else. This is working for this exploration. And so, ready to enter the accord, the multitude of ways in which it gets with that. And when it gets us early, well, children would not cut. Just watch. something can be energized and blossom and grow, whether or not. Whether it's being extended by attraction or reversion.

[36:13]

Whether something is just disappear because they're designated insignificance. turning and returning to the mysterious of the moment. But watch for it to not let it become mechanical. Some mechanical boring figures think they do as a good thing. It's more to be I'm still afraid and intrigued.

[37:15]

What is going on? There's something that's called a humanoid. This extraordinary way of getting swept up into me. People often knew it's more like opera, you know, with those great action, the crescendo that brings various about. It's hard to believe that plain old holy mindfulness could have a comfortable energy And yet, the more the moment is completely black, the more the very energy that has created the universe is touched.

[38:29]

You know, it said in the sutras that they deconcentrated in jhana and absorption, as we at least applications of the word recording to make heavy and raise energy like the word recording. And energy that's so palpable, it makes the air on the back of our head stand up. It's a lot of big chill of our life. Her delight. Cookies and women and sashimi are the best at her. Actually, we're our best evening for the rest of our lives.

[39:38]

With this kind of energetic involvement, our world stops being so monochromatic to dementia. Oh yeah, I've seen it all before. If it opens up, it comes alive. One isn't to accept that invitation. I've taken to allow the world to support you. It's one of them. It's to discover the original energy that runs through it. Thank you.

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