This podcast is offered by the San Francisco Zen Center on the web at www.sfcc.org. Our public programs are made possible by donations from people like you. I am now I'm very nervous now. I feel like I'm going to the company I applied a job. and having meetings.

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If I fail this test examination, I will not be able to go back to Japan. Vicki-san said so. It's not. [...] My daily life is a reputation of tension and relaxation.

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That is my life. It's same as about here. I think Many Japanese people will be surprised. So many people in America to sit Zazen and listen Dharma talk and try to practice Zazen. Japanese people will be very, very surprised.

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Konnichiwa. When I look around this room, I see many people who are higher level than me. However, because I sat here, I have to talk something. Best story is silence.

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However, that kind of action is only Shatyamuni Buddha can do it. 明日。 明日ね。 神山式で。 私が終わった時に言う。 Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow is a mountain seat ceremony, and I will say something like, which means Shakyamuni Buddha taught this way.

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Buddha's Dharma is like that. Someday, Shakyamuni Buddha is sitting on a chair, On here, sitting. But, Shaka-mari Buddha doesn't say... Ah, in English. It's amazing. Everyone has heard it. Please, please. Do you want me to ask? Yes. My head is like this. Japanese, Japanese, English, Japanese. Too much time. Confused.

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Confused. That Shakyamuni Buddha sat and didn't say anything, and didn't say anything. Then, uh, Monju Vosat told this is the teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha. Everybody can hear both of us? Or would you like to have a volume up? He is asking. Okay.

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Okay. Okay. Okay. The way Shakyamuni Buddha, the way Shakyamuni Sath is the best Dharma teaching. So, if you can, if you can, I would like to try to show my Dama talk like that, but I'm not that level. [...]

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If you sit silently, still you talk many things. If you sit quietly, you will hear many things. When you sat quietly without intention of teaching something to other people, then you will actually showing many more teaching to other people. Therefore, your Zazen is the same as Chakyamuni Buddha's Zazen.

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If you are doing Zazen with gaining idea, that is different from Shakyamuni Buddha's Zazen. Hanyata-la-sonja to you. Hanyata-la-sonja. Bodhi-dharma. Bodhi-dharma. Bodhi-dharma. The teacher, the teacher, the teacher, the teacher. The teacher, the teacher, the teacher. The teacher, the teacher, the teacher. The teacher. The teacher. When the king gathered many monks and asked them to do the Dhamma talk and please recite some sutra,

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I'm sorry. [...] When King asked why don't you do something like talk or chant sutra? When King asked why don't you do something like talk or chant sutra?

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If I sit quietly, my breath, each one of my breaths is teaching something. This dozen is merged as the same as heaven and earth. I am sitting with the universe. The Prajnatta said so. Like that, each one of your Zazen is very big, great Zazen. Although Shakyamuni Buddha told Zazen to us, Shakyamuni Buddha himself is also learned from somebody.

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However, nobody knows who discovered this Zazen. Human being? No, no. Everything, everything create this Zazen. Zazen, Shakyamuni Buddha was learned from everyone and everything. Now Shakyamuni Buddha is taught us, taught everybody, Therefore, we receive the Zazen from Shakyamuni Buddha and sit quietly, purely.

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We do not sit zazen for going somewhere or being somebody. Shachamani Buddha already showed us where we are supposed to go and... Therefore, what we have to do is just sit, which Shakyamuni Buddha taught us.

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The place where you sit, everything is there. This morning and the other days, I sat here. I was so fulfilled. I felt your clear mind in the Zendo and outside the Zendo.

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I felt that energy and I was able to sit so comfortably with the energy of your clear mind. Because your Zazen is so pure, I was able to Receive this fulfillment of the Zazen.

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If you sit with gaining mind, try to get something, try to be somebody, that is not pure Zazen. When I was young, after I came back from practice in Eheji, I went back to my own temple, Rinsohen, and I tried to continue in Rinsohen, but nobody came. No one. It's only me.

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I sat by myself in cold, cold zendo. Very difficult. I wish somebody come here to sit with me. Sitting so wholeheartedly by myself, no one knows about it. The regular people don't know what the great monkey is.

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that kind of thought was came from I wanna teach that then somebody Pinocchio you know My nose is getting longer and longer. And one day I gave up. I don't mind no one come. [...] Just a little bit, I start thinking, if I know myself, I'm sitting, it's okay.

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After that, one person, two people, the people start showing up. For several years, the four people sat zazen together. Again, then, no one stopped coming again. Then I felt really lonely. The Zen is alone. The Zen is alone. The Zen is alone.

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The Zen is alone. If you wholeheartedly feel that loneliness or aloneness, you can be relaxed. Many countries and many different times, many people said those lonely lessons.

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You are sitting with loneliness, in the midst of loneliness, you can be together with the universe, earth and heaven. 皆さんは毎朝素晴らしい座禅をしている。 座禅によって何かになろうとも思わない。 You are doing wonderful zazen here, not thinking about being somebody or not gaining some wisdom. Finished? Finished. Japanese people read some certain books, and then realize, oh, Steve Jobs did the Zazen.

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That's wonderful. That's wonderful. A thousand will produce something productive. I can be rich. Get big money. Certain people might thought so, reading the book. I think American people don't think so. Do you think so?

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The way to produce something, the way to make money, the way to practice, those are different ways of life. Steve Jobs must know about it. Zazen is better when it is simple. If I use the difficult word, that is the meaning of shikantaza. Zazen is better when it is simple.

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Again, Shikantaza is a difficult word. I prefer, I will say Zazen is better when it is simple. That's simplicity. Sometimes people say during Zazen you are not supposed to think anything. However, unfortunately, our mind is always moving as long as we arrive. How our mind moves, that is the importance.

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多くの仏たちは単純にこの脳を Many body servers use our mind very simply. That's it.

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Many people ask me, what am I supposed to think during Zazen? Then I start answering, please have a mind which fulfilled by Zazen itself. This is mine. [...] Everything doesn't mind. Thank you very much. Very good. More good. My talk. This is a prayer filled with the heart.

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You are just supposed to know what you are doing right now. Knowing what you are doing right now. Knowing what you are doing right now. Knowing you are sitting, you are doing Zazen. I'm noticing I'm talking right now. Therefore, I am fulfilled by talk.

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This is my talk. [...] Therefore, I can just be quiet. Knowing The person who are breathing quietly. Knowing the person who's thinking about something else. Sometimes come in my... Sorry.

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Sometimes somebody comes into my brain. Very beautiful woman comes to my mind. Even that I'm noticing it. This is not supposed to be the Zazen mind. However, that is also Zazen. However, that is also Zazen.

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If you are in the body, there is a悟り or a迷い. If you are alive, it is not possible. It is not possible. It is not possible. It is not possible. When you sit that wholeheartedly, there is everything. There is enlightenment there. There is confusion there. There is life there. There is not life there. This is my word. This is the way I express the word which is spoken by Dogen Zenji, but I try to use my word.

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As all things are Buddha Dharma, there is delusion and realization. It's okay. You're thinking about a beautiful woman. And sit zazen with that person. That is the Chathamuni Buddha's practice.

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everything i wanted to say i think this is the end 先ほど私は座禅は独りぼっちだ。孤独でもいいというところで座禅をするんだと言いましたけれど。しかし大勢の皆さんと座禅をする。互いに助け合いながら。 Although in our talk, I said, the lonely Zazen, sitting Zazen alone is the start point of sitting Zazen with realizing we are sitting with whole universe.

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However, the sitting with you All of you and supporting each other, helping each other, that is also very nice. My teacher, which is my father, before he came to America, he asked me, can I go to America? I asked him, why do you want to go to America? I want to do Zazen in America. I want to do Zazen in America.

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So I told him, you can sit dazen in your own temple. You can sit dazen anywhere, everywhere. So I told him, you can sit dazen in your own temple. That was when I was 20 years old. Yeah. I think my father had a difficulty to my answers. He didn't know what to say to me. Then, Suzuki Roshi used a different word. I want to zazen with American people. So I said,大丈夫 means, okay, I understand, please.

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Okay. Go ahead. So I said,大丈夫 means, okay, I understand, please. Okay. Go ahead. So I said,大丈夫 means, okay, I understand, please. Okay. Go ahead. And so I said, go ahead. And so I said, There was a lot of joy, and there was a lot of joy and a lot of joy. When actually he left, Suzuki Roshi left Japan, everybody could go to airport in a nearby airplane at that time.

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So he was carrying the flower bouquet and then moving the flower bouquet with a full smile to everybody. Yeah. Like a dancing. He was so excited to sit with you. Yes. Yes. Yes.

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20 or 30 years ago, I went to Tazahara and Sashim, and I received a question. The person asked, do you like Sashim? I told the person, I don't like it very much. Everybody surprised. So everybody start talking. But actually I didn't say I dislike the Zen.

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I just said I don't like it very much. At that time, people over there in Tassahara, almost all of them loved Zazen. But I thought this is going to be not true. Right? Therefore, I told my truth. Do you understand? I know how my mind works. I have a mind which I like, and I have a mind which I don't like.

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One hour. Do you like Zazen? Even that, do you like Zazen? The people's mind is not one side. If you have a one side mind, always there is the same amount of other side. My teacher, Suzuki Roshi, always didn't say clearly, this is it, maybe this way, but maybe that way.

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I think when you interact with people or society it usually better if you are not Dealing with one, your idea, but having the idea, maybe that may work also. Although it may sound like it's not definitive or not clear, but actually that is very difficult. difficult to say this way but maybe that way to tell other people.

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Or more,厳しい is not only difficult but strict in a way yeah when you believing something so strongly still having could be different possibility to reminding Myself is very difficult. It is easy to say this way is more convenient, easy, happy.

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It's easy to say that. But at that point, thinking about there's another possibility, another way, that is very difficult. Is there anyone who doesn't have an iPhone here? People don't have any doubt nowadays having iPhone.

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日本で電車に乗ると電車に乗ってすると見ると箱の中の半分ぐらいの人はこれ見てます。 In Japan, when I take a train, about almost more than half of the people are looking at the iPhone. Some people are using iPhone while they are walking. Without iPhone, people feel something is missing. Feel very insecure.

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If there is a volcano explosion and no signals, what you gonna do? Nowadays, everything is connected by internet. I'm very uneasy about it. So the ease to have an iPhone

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is to be communicated to everybody that another side makes uneasy. Sometimes I think about, I want to have a smartphone. Hello, hello. Please use as much as possible. Please use as much as possible.

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私が永平寺へ行きました 薬寮 永平寺の薬寮で行きました それを When I went to A.H. as a more senior position, somebody told him, Oh, you so changed your mind. Now you like Zazen. Change mind. Why? Why? I am liking Zazen at the same time.

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I don't like Zazen so much. I don't like Zazen so much. At the same time, I like Zazen. Sometimes I think when I get up in the morning, maybe I don't go to Zazen this morning. Just a little bit, I think about it. It's same, same with you. What? It's true. But when I come to Zendo and sit and take a first breath, I feel I'm glad I came. I'm okay.

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No one come here. At the same time, I wish somebody's gonna show up. That's what we continue to do. That's what we continue to do. If sit like that, we may able to start understanding people's feelings or the gratitude for the universe.道元禅師が私たちにお釈迦様の座禅をまっすぐに

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I don't know. I don't know. The pure of the disciples, the pure of the disciples. The [...] goal is here.

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This place you are sitting is the place you're supposed to come and there is no other place you're supposed to go. Your life until now is supposed to come here to sit zazen. And also when you sit zazen, you are sitting zazen with the old People who are already deceased. And also the people in the future will sit zazen because we are sowing the seed right now.

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And also the people in the future will sit zazen because we are sowing the seed right now. Therefore, it is same we are sitting with the people in the future. When you sit Zazen right here, right now, which expand the time and place, What delays time and space? What time?

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What time? Is there any questions? His question is, when I feel happiness, should I suppress that feeling? When you feel happiness, please... When you feel happiness, please...

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When you feel happiness, please wholeheartedly feel happiness. However, at the same time, this happiness may lead to unhappiness. I want you to have that mindset. However, I don't want you to be a cold person. The important thing is having a big mind, not only a one kind of mind, expanding your mind. not to attach to something some thought makes you feel lead to the big mind静かに座るそういうことをみんな多くの人たちが感じてきた

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The blood comes down. when you are thinking about raising temperature, that the warmth or the blood itself can calm down when you sit Zazen. Is there another question? Nothing. Thank you. Thank you for listening to this podcast offered by the San Francisco Zen Center.

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