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good morning
on who we are another sunny saturday
we are sitting indoors
i've been noticing their the francisco seasonal change and don't really have the seasons like they doing some parts of the country and we do have this is definitely a feeling that fall to me i've lived here all my life i can feel it
also i can see it that to me this a change in the light
something of the quality of the light of this time of year
it's very beautiful
this reminds me that to the years ending
and the sunlight is changing
i was them
going out with my friend angie the other night we've been studying t together for seller years and why should we could go out to my teacher's house our teachers house she was on sixth avenue near there
and as we left here and left a black jiving and i said well it's dark
she said yeah it's going to get darker
as well what do you mean
it's going to get darker and how can it get any darker thirty dark
where's she said until the twenty first december every day is going to be shorter
but i'm okay that was fine but i really enjoyed time with this idea is going to get darker when it's already dark
and i'm had been sticking with matt kind of like it
it's gonna get darker
because we're going to see mrs ueda away this sensor who are japanese of course he teach and so we use some japanese words and the ceremony and
since i've been thinking of that darkness i thought about the the japanese language that time
when you say good evening you say con bama which literally means it start
if there's any japanese speakers here please forgive my butchering them and if this handkerchief they say right now but and like we say goodnight kiss somebody you say oh yes when we decide which means have a dark sleep
that's pretty neat what it means it's like you have a black sleep to it's like inc and for me is that don't have any dream haven't haven't good rest
anyway
when i'm gonna do today
is read a psalm
it's called a song of meditation
and it's by hackle and then she
haku in my son
lived in the seventeenth century
in some say that here
this isn't working very well
after his time in japan would i still had a lot of chinese flavors to it
because the came from china but they give kako in the credit for making them completely japanese
oh he i don't see popularized it but he admitted available to to the folks to the people and
the other great teacher that time was show seki and like he was a teacher of the emperor you know pretty high stuff but but haku and cannot read out to the people and was necessarily despair mister cash
and anyway if you look at his he's left a lot of paintings for us i think insurance and they're quota warm and humorous and and human and in a white right here at nothing really fancy far out about him i'd actually recommend if you haven't seen him he joins to go we have to books in the library and they really
very great that joints ache joint
right let's get to his his words

the he he lived in the time of sixteen eighty five to seventeen sixty eight
he is good low and the acknowledges being a part of the renzi lineage and he's not in our so lineage better than what we can't study him

the song of meditation
all beans are from the very beginning buddhas
it's like water and ice
apart from water no ice outside living beings no buddhists
not knowing it is near they seek it afar
what a pity
they'd like one of the water who cries out for thirst is like the child and rich house who has straightaway of when the poor
the cars while circling through the six world is that we're on the dark path paths of ignorance
dark path upon dark path treading
when shall we escape from birth and death
the zen meditation of the mahayana is beyond all our praise
giving and morality and the other perfections taken over name repentance discipline and many other right actions i'll come back to the practice of meditation
he destroys innumerable a cup accumulated since i shouldn't be wrong paths for him
the pure land paradise is not far
when in reverence this truth is hurt even once one who praises it and gladly embraces it it has merit without him
i'm much more one who turns within and confirms directly one's own true nature
then one's own nature is no nature such as transcended vein words the gate opens and cause and effect are one
straight ones the way not two not three
taken as form the form of know form going or returning he has ever at home
taken as thought the thought of know thought
singing and dancing all of the voice of truth
why does the heaven a boundless samadi radiant the full moon of for full wisdom
what remains to be sought from varna is clear before one two three place the lotus paradise this very body the booed him
well said
am i could leave yet
i feel like it i mean i can i say anything
when i decided to use this as a topic today today
i got it out this book here and the internet this book
has like ten chapters on this poem and it's a series of lectures someone gave and here i'm going to try to give one lecture
one talk and i'm feeling very funny right
but i'll try
hum
all beans or from the very beginning buddhas
some of us just recently
i've been studying with mel on some duggan's writing on on buddha nature
and it's it's pretty difficult stuff i to try to understand the trouble is when you try to where you try to understand that more difficult it gets
but tom
dogan uses the term
all all sentient beings are buddha nature and use it in his dog where he joyfully my with the language of chinese character that's used for that it says all beings have good in nature
the dog and says all beans are food and nature he's trying to make make it clear to us to try to get the feeling of that no separation not getting to this dualism that we have something
you can't have something that you are
already it's not like gaining something
so if here how can we uses the term that like water and ice
that works pretty well he says apart from water no ice
have you look at the ice has been what we are i've been thinking we're not buddha and while frozen and stiff and we're not good i'm not doing know i'm no good
no feast i sent an a to size down and becomes water
and water can you know flows and conforms to attain it you know it doesn't have much trouble mean water is a big guy a metaphor in in taoism also could water finds a way to move move rocks and stuff like that it doesn't have any resistance be at it's very powerful anyway this idea of
using water and ice
ice and water you can't have and have water without the ice
we can look at have eyes for that water and can have any order well
another time another writing they use that this idea of saying that
all beings are buddha it's like in the ocean and waves
now you know can you have the ocean without waves and the way for that the ocean and where are the waves
when are in any way it's going to the ocean is there and the ways come and go and they're always there always part of it
no outside know lou outside living beings no buddhists
i used to
i like to tombstone all beans
can they make getting too picky there but ah
like dog and sometimes talks about grass and rocks in buddha nature
that doesn't leave anything out
and sometimes the term as your sentiment themes
but i like and when you don't use that to save beans
when there's a rock cambodian nature
no
yes
not knowing it is near they seek it of far what a pity
this kind of
example has been used for many many things are searching going on journeys when i'm ques
you're going for months and months years years and you go searching for this something
sometimes these great stories they go on for so long the the question has forgotten why on the a quest and be been that long that usually get the an olympian many of them
when they they find what they're looking for their back in familiar territory or in the back where they started from
there's one that you probably have heard many times
repeat anyway
i think it's from that hasn't the tradition it's about him i think it was a rabbi something which was told that there was them
a great treasure in this town
the next town over it was under a bridge
so he went over to find the treasure when he got there there were soldiers guarding the bridge
when he was afraid to go down it's like looking for this getting what the social that therefore three hundred and a few days and kept looking wait for them to go away and they never went away twenty one of the soldiers and notice can coming back all the time
and he said that when he when he went you're doing and he said well i heard there was a treasury her
a certain name of the try to even new scripts and it's precious stones
and if you've i've heard of that he said but it's not here he said it in this town next town over the gave him directions to have to find it by street to take how many doors to go down and letting fits in in that building so he followed them happened that went back to his own
own town
for canada doors with the statutes one of his own house went in and the treasure was under his hearth and they've been there all the time
but when the stories told better than i'm telling me when anyway
it's is something that the idea of being has been booed we think we're not
the neighbor all messed up
and i don't believe it
he talks about the child
the rich have this isn't a reference to the chapter in that loaded switchboard about that son who believes home pink
and goes away and then comes back london's back many years later
and is recognized as the son of the king
and the king recognizes but it takes quite a struggle to get him to believe that he has all this wealth and his his
and this is also kind of like we have this this treasure already it's already here
right now
this is therefore our art or use
but where is for cheap
the course of are circling through the six worlds
that we're on the dark pasts of ignorance
dark path upon dark path treading
that's always dish with my must be some kind of darkness think that i really liked this this image of a dark path on dark path treading x this kind of a dimension but what this sub
you know what to say the dark paths of ignorance
one in the hindu philosophy
they used to turn maya maya
a meaning that some about illusion
which of what we are in it's like a dream
and what we're here and been covered with illusion interesting thing and inlet the root of the word or the use of the word maya is also is the word they used for arch
it that's really it's that's what makes a sense it's really a pretty neat language
can you think about what is painting or sculpture that you know it's illusion
another interesting side trip on this for me anyway i i i teach buddhist art
but i a teach them the hindu cosmology and beginning of it
buddhist mother boot mom her name with maya
and i've always gonna start me i don't know if it just coincidence i don't think so
but here at shaka mooney said donna thorne the prince was born
of someone whose name is ignorance which analyses of illusion
my
i want it said too much but the thing of a of treading the dark path after dark path of ignorance
in the dream

we have that song back from the fifties i guess life is but a dream
and so we are trying to wake up
the word buddha itself mean awake
have we condemn agenda to try to wake up sometimes we go to sleep
more asleep
this dark path after dark path
the idea dream is is kind of fascinating also has been a lot of poetry written about dreams
and sometimes they thought were the most famous one
his drawings it's butterfly home
johns i guess you all know if you don't know even the great that was teacher the fifth century chinese
and he wrote
that last night i i dreamt i was a butterfly
i woke up
and then i wondered if i was dreaming up about to fly was the butterfly dreaming of me
i posted i'll be very helpful to me
who's dreaming who
his booty dreaming you
he dreamy buddha
and then there's some poems about dreaming of dreaming and telling somebody have a dream and then as dream telling about a dream goes on on and i like listening some of those images also kind of get into infinite type of images
i'm a student member
do they still have that pet milk can
but that there's the column on the and the can and under colonel isaac and can around the cosmic hanging on a strap and i met canada's and a hit
in memory of as as a kid i was fascinated with that they stink about samples
and i'm am i had this little pet mel can sample little anything like a toy you know
and i look at that cow and can get lunch
and then i started going to a barber shops
that's even be more get into the barbershop i guess the barbershop owner the old fashioned was not have the mirrors all around and you're sitting that barbet sharing and like cupping you see yourself in the
no no no way
it's kind of this endless illusion and the smile

i'm skipping to the end down not going to about to be able to go and make one of the atlantic one for ten weeks on this
this this is such a one of i've actually recommended so much if you haven't read it
because it covers all of buddhism is it
interested
short on how many lines but not many
and it's all there
here's another one of my favorites
straight runs the way
not two not three
when i am i was brought to this temple by for new jewish his book
then mind beginner's mind if i came here to to buy a copy
but there is no wanted to buy a copy i read a blurb
sort of like with pre-publication advertise that they put out on poster form and there was a quote from the book
and it said
i didn't look it up i should have an exact quote a to paraphrase but something like our practice
is like m
and straight iron rail
going off into infinity
i saw that image on him in that i said that's why i want to do
i didn't i still like quite sure mike had shown me the idea of this was almost gave me kind of shelby feeling on top
iron path
the hard cold
you take it score
didn't seem very exciting wasn't promise me any kind of buddha buddha nature anything at all just said our practice is like a straight arm well now
and i guess there's something like kaku and says this means that the not two not three
libya that john drew me to decide to the single male
some
i mentioned mr coburn chino
quite a few years later that tessa hard
annie
smiled and but you know he said you take that rail you go you go go and then eventually you come back
oh
it's common for anyone and
so maybe so am i was kind of desire this get away think israel off into infinity they are wonderful i can escape now
now
but it does describe their practice
it's one
taken as form the form of know form
going are returning he's ever at home
taken as thought the thought of know thought
singing and dancing all is the voice of truth
why does the heaven of boundless summary
radiant the full moon of the fourfold wisdom
what remains to be sought
nevada is clear before him
this very place a lotus paradise
everybody in the buddha
hell
the