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Suzuki Roshi Memorial Service

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Chanting of the Harmony of Difference and Equality

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The talk primarily focuses on the Zen Buddhist text "Sandokai" which explores the harmonization of difference and equality. It discusses how spiritual teachings from India were transmitted to the East and highlights the interplay between light and darkness, symbolizing the dynamic relationship between reality's differing manifestations. The discourse emphasizes the importance of properly understanding the teachings without imposing personal biases and stresses mindful engagement with the present path.

  • "Sandokai" by Sekito Kisen: This seminal Zen text serves as the foundation of the talk, illustrating the unity and distinctness between the phenomenal world and ultimate reality.

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Bye. harmony of difference and equality. The mind of the great age of India, intimately transmitted from west to east. While human faculties are sharp or dull, the way has no northern or southern ancestors.

[01:07]

The spiritual source shines clear in the light, the branching streams flow on in the dark. Grasping at things is surely delusion, according which sameness is still not enlightenment. All the objects of the senses interact and yet do not. Interacting brings involvement, otherwise each keeps its place. Lights vary in quality and form. Sounds differ as pleasing or harsh. Refined and common speech come together in the dark. Clear and murky phrases are distinguished in the light. The four elements return to their natures just as a child turns to its mother. Fire heats, wind moves, water wet, earth is solid, eye in sight, ear in sounds, nose and smells, tongue in taste, us with each and everything, depending on these roots, the leaves spread forth.

[02:13]

Trunk and branches share the essence, revered and common, each has its speech. In the light there is darkness, but don't take it as darkness. In the dark there is light, but don't see it as light. Light and dark oppose one another like the front and back foot in walking. Each of the myriad things has its merit expressed according to function and place. Phenomena exist, box and lid fit. Principle responds, arrow points meet. Hearing the words, understand the meaning. Don't set up standards of your own. If you don't understand the way right before you, how will you know the path as you walk? Progress is not a matter of far or near. But if you are confused, mountains and rivers block your way. I respectfully urge you who study the mystery. do not pass your days and nights in vain

[03:32]

Oh, gee, go in that wakua shinjifu shite shoukan no tari tamai e san mo nuhai getz konnichi shite doji kai san shoukaku shimriu taiyou shoukakki no shinnyo . [...]

[04:51]

Thank you. Thank you.

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