May 31st, 1998, Serial No. 03551

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i'm tom

i remember
reading a description or she can taza by yeah satanic roshi
ah and he described she can't taza
as a kind of very very special practice where you sit zazen and you sit thousand so hard that the perspiration jumps out from your body and you can only do it for about a half hour because it's so intense
when i read that i thought boy does not actually current as the diner anything about or ever hurt and if you're fucked from of erosion
no
near me
come down around
ah and
i thought this i don't say that this is wrong she phantasm but it seems to me this is elitist chicken tasa or she can cause i like the olympics
trying to accomplish something
ah some great feat
and suzuki or she always talked about she contessa as
your day-to-day moment to moment life of selflessness
one of the main themes of suzuki roshi was don't be selfish
i remember we were sitting in a she
maybe my first or second machine
psychology and for some reason another in the middle a reason you'd people don't know how selfish you are
that is that the right word
maybe he means selfless
me know maybe

so so that was attorney word for me too because i really to me i really got that the central teaching your suzuki roshi was not to be selfish is a very simple word
very simple to somebody that our mother always tells us right and ah
in buddhism we learned not to be self we learned to be selfless and no self might be suffering but he said selfish because little more personal connotation
and then why don't we don't like so much
i am getting to know listening to suzuki roshi lectures and watching his activity
and ah his day to day activity the way he would sit down and stand up and as people have been describing his dinner walk put on his shoes this is his expression or she can passer everyday activity with no
selfishness just doing the thing for the thing we say see sit just sitting as she can't as that's true just putting on your shoes but this just has a special meaning it means without going any further or without adding
anything extra
when we are
do our daily activity we always have a purpose
if i go to the store i want to buy something so i have a purpose in their purpose motivates me to go to the store
but while going to the store i'm living my life step by step
which has something to do with going to the store and that motivation but it's totally separate at the same time is just this step this step this step
for the sake of walking
but we're always doing something making up a story about our life and making up this story about our life is okay this is our dream we've been talking about the dream everybody has a dream we have a dream of going to the store every thought as the dream
but does she can't answer or the just doing is within the dream to do the selfless activity i've just doing
this is in other words we move and then we rest
we move and then we wrist life as a movement and arrest
but in our practice we move and rest at the same time

move and rest at the same time within our movement is perfect stillness
stillness and movement or the two aspects of
this life
so sometimes i think about what does she contessa it is like when the bot when our thought and our activity as no gap
in ah
when
the skier is skiing in the olympics and doing this great feat body and mind our there's no gap at the thought and the activity is exactly the same
there's not thinking about something the thought is is the activity in the activity is the thought
but it doesn't have to be in such high highly motivated
a spectacular events is just our day to day activity moment to moment activity the simplest activity and this is what we recognized the suzuki roshi
when we say he was like this we his second taza was right there for all of us to experience and it was not spectacular but there was something so wonderful about it and we couldn't put our finger on what it was just putting on your shoes how can you put on issues like that we all do it but there was something
about putting on shoes that was exactly the same
as the women skiers and the olympics it had exactly the same quality
so she can thousand is rather undefinable and
ah when i think about well how do we practice you can't as a how do we do that
just lack of self self just lack of selfishness
it's very simple practice
lack of self centeredness and just doing as ribs said you meet you
to put yourself totally into the activity and the universe meet you and confirms you
and there's no gap
that's my understanding
does anybody have a question

you

so i thought we could take a at the last break of the conference and then we come back and the after the break we're gonna do a little bit of discussion on not essential teachings of suzuki roshi a fun which i'm hoping it's going to take the
form of of a poem is probably the wrong wrong us way of calling it but i can be done hopefully somewhat unusually as
many people participate
so we'll come back in a twenty minutes to for thank you