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good evening everyone mean
even we have fun
this attendance sheet to check sign and check off and i know and number of people weren't here last week because of cigar tube or they think so if you could add your name
i guess check the dates that you been here
and
there's also copies of the tens okay with we're using if anyone needs one
we've got a couple of here
yes

i'm not fared names please
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how matter
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that currently happen they turn michael moore
julia
susan when virginia
linda
greg are you won't happen
adam
oh welcome now him
there may be there may be something else and our minds connect not sure
so i thought we if there's some report that someone would like to make and we could just but election we could just have it out and just and then we'll see what happens it would someone like to somebody
makeup didn't i was checking actually at the looks as if believably the poor to michigan as well so the swing states of michigan florida illinois illinois is not a year ago pennsylvania
all of those have gone towards to sell is it's me is very interesting it looks like it i mean i would wager still because it is mister a very small percentage of precincts have reported but it looks like mentally positive report
can hillary clinton
one thing about florida that i just heard is that the bush campaign is so protesting that it's to go in so it's off the if he they took it off so he's doesn't have florida right now because of the huge amount of absentee ballots and haven't been counted and so that was so close it's a culture that still
that's back
okay can we just down and then a community
hidden
we're getting the ten zero children and we left off last week have a very very interesting part
how can you give a quick little
what we talked to last week yeah
let's see we got into
a discussion of practice realization practice and realization being not separable in buddhist practice of that
which is sort of doctrinal underpinnings self everyday man is the way or what every do things with full exertion and wholehearted sincerity that in itself is expressing the way how those how any work that you do if you're fully engaged in it is not different formulas
nation that that we talked about that well what else can we talk about anybody else remember yes i'm only saying how the it
the total time the three and and how did we talk about that the about it being our very own eyes
i have helped with that kids and most
plastic is like
and i had ended up in the same machine as you were crying and i'm an actor
hi yes so we talked about mind and environment be the same or the the am
the
emptiness of things yet we talked about emptiness
so that was a little update from last week anything else said stuck in your mind from last week
your story
stories yeah my stories
but buying better with my state it
so i have a couple of things that i wanted to mention which is i had this kind of a flash of something that i'd like to do with the class and i wanted to ask you how you'd feel about it and it it's partially because of
being in the colon class a year or so ago where we took a particular on and when broke into groups and then we dramatically acted it out we kind of theatrically did it it was the same komatsu everyone had the same and the groups work together and you know they're pretty sure people had their lines and then there
certain actions
that one was about a ten so it actually was bought a meal where the abbot heard the bell hadn't gone off yet and he came with his bowl to the zendo and the cook said
the bill hasn't gone off what are you doing here old man get back you know to your own room or something and we weep there was a number of wow
you know what happened after that we and we acted it out dramatically and i was picturing these stories these tensile stories dogan meeting the tendrils for me they're they're teaching stories they come up for me
the lines from the stories come up as pitching stories are as coins and i thought if we saw them
that might be some way of in burying them would you like to do that within a sunday fun to do
it's there anyone baby at i heard all those who are favorite is there anybody who
albert this if you really feel like you don't want to do it or be involved in it
maybe you can let me know but at this point is there some kind of general yeah let's try it kind of giving answer yes okay there
i looked at it that the three or four little stories that are in the m techs and it looks like
here's
i have the parts down
but they make me
so the first one is show a fung and dogan and that's the one where he overturns the rice bucket and it's just it could be two people dogan to that organ donation show a fung and a narrator so maybe i should have a little like a sign up sheet where you sign up
the next one is the of that he met well this is a chronologically it in tens of killed and how they come the next one is
the m cook at tentang temple the then there's the one he met on the ship and then that one who comes back and meats and comes to visit him a chance on so there's those for stories the one on the ship could include the captain of the ship a crew member because dogan was just chatting with the captain when this kansas
showed up and in the tens of as the crew member to by mushroom so there could be a crew member who you can have that little negotiation to you want to to than dogan the tempo and a narrator and then the last one is just dogan and tangible and it could be a narrator so it looks like there's a lot of parts for people
to do that you think it would be possible to him
and see for those of you will live here you can prepare for next week for those of you don't have here
see you could maybe be a narrator in one and just read the between lines but it be fun to practice we should all i can do one german and judith could do one
we could also take a little time here to break into the groups and just decide who's going to do what maybe if the end maybe fifteen minutes to create their little casts
we turned out okay i'll i'll try and numb
let's step and quartered and nine and quickly break into groups and just see if you can assign parts and for those of you are here you could actually get together and rehearsed once or so and those of you don't live here can maybe be narrator and and practice okay have multiple versions of so well we'll see
let's see one two three four five six
ah seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen it looks like it takes fourteen people for the a cast members how many are we
so we could have double i think it's okay for us to have
skyler on twenty eight twenty i think i won't be in one so twenty seven at least ten everybody want to do
at any better than that is that even now i'm new to start saying so because
get one and like me so to become a later you need them
okay let's let's do the city and will break into groups and cebu how many of us
how many you don't raise your hands who don't live here right now for thing
how can he never better
what yeah
so let's try to work at all out at quarter to nine okay
so if we were on page thirty four thirty five so why we turn to that
and
i think they're at the bottom of thirty four
about getting ready for the next morning's breakfast and
there's certain things that jump out for me for example prepare the vegetables by yourself with your own hands watching closely with sincere diligence you should not attend to some things and neglect or be slack with others grieve in one moment that we talked about that i think this even minded not picking your choose
zing what's
i liked this job a lot and i don't like this when so much as somebody else can do it or i don't do it at all
yeah
and this
does anybody have anything
i feel like i've been talking a lot in the class and i wanted to bring you all out more if i could or please feel free to jump in with your own
relationship really to to these words
how maybe i'll just ask this attending you should not attend to some things and neglect or be slack with other for even one moment yeah well a personally chose of i wanted his verse on the group as we can do but if you're so busy and because of say lack of staffing
the second zone a picnic sometimes you have to live or work the slack with them
them apples are real as so they do better
the that i guess i picked was on as you're aware of it may be come back to
the has been i do i think so does everybody get the feeling and met with matt saying that there are situations where you can't attend to everything with equal amount of time rate but what you said at the end to me it's like the key which is attending to everything and not be slacking is
i'm not able to attend to this right now although i care about i will get back to it or i won't ask someone else daughter that is the attending to the bearing in mind
so i think you answered your he went full circle new whisper
a favorite we have similar discussion this summer in the farm
a very much about mindfulness or talked about how
it was often really stressful enough and hard to me i do something really really fast and still being mindful doing a dinner around a theme so the same thing i think our conclusion was that
just because your mind for the mean that you know if you really slowing are sometimes might be easier to to work really fast helps to be my focus like all distractions sort of disappear and these are really have to be
no just picking charge happen not think about like how nice the box of the charges are hundred and so on
i think yes there's a i have a great temple story about the very thing which i'll tell our magnitude of he's going to tell a story to
not a story that might hit on it is
more oh i don't want to do that card you know and a
being the tens or i might be able to pull that off but ah
i try and just jump in to whatever needs to be done
that's
so the the picking and choosing has to do it's an attitude not that you actually can do every single thing with the same a of time and but
how are you related to this like i don't want to do that for right and and the thing you said about and because i'm kenzo you know it's my prerogative and so nobody's gonna catch me up on it
because they figure they trust me i'm doing when yeah but you know you can fooling yourself can pull yourself because there another handmade here guinea yeah
i would only encourage you to and said now
yeah i just came from this meeting and tessa her when we talked about we had a workshop called beyond consensus and it was run we had quaker to quakers people come and talk with us about quaker meetings and how they run their business beatings and one of the things that they have as a form some of you may know maybe waitresses it
if someone speaks and really that's what you would have said if if it had been your turn to speak it rather than repeating it also that you can be heard from kind of an eagle point of view you say that friend speaks by mine and we began using that in the up in our business meeting that we had the board we said that sister that
rather speaks my mind and it was
anyway it was a pretty good feeling you didn't have to have so i appreciate that that transfixed by my that
yeah at sister that brother speaks nine
we can adapt that if
i'm used to go like this from santa cruz
debbie
debian the same thing you know to same thing
the story i was going to or there's two stories i wanted to tell their a correct correct me if you on said about mindfulness mindfulness isn't necessarily saying to yourself out of this box of charges of gorgeous look at those colors the sun glinting off it this is really i am so lucky down and editor it's
cutting chair putting in the boxes just just cutting here and make didn't tell the story about the apples here when i was kenzo it does her in the summer we're trying to make applesauce for about one hundred and fifty people i think and i said to one of the students i think they were a new or student
get a box apples or two bucks of apple's wash 'em get him in a pot and get him on you know and and then i was doing other things and
looked around and about a half and we are those apples they're now up knowing and not on listopia i looked over and this person was over at the spritzer sink and doing this
principally a real
as something that happens severe
years
and really enjoying the color and each beautiful and talented and i went over to him and i said what are they say i said something i think can macbook
i think i took this brits are actually think you just get you that way
but i realized they had a this person head
conflate it i guess you could say mindfulness and this kind of getting lost in the beauty and and slowness mile from the slowness appreciating the beauty and they had forgotten about you know that which is
it's like blinders they had forgotten about lunch deadline that time other people another job and the cutting sheet that was ready to go it was just oblivious to that and completely zeroing in on there is lovely work and isn't this great to be in the mountains can of you know so i think this can happen so you should know
to attend to some things and neglect be slack with others meaning what is the whole what is this why addition what's going on in the kitchen and the relationship and i think buddhism is so much about relationship in all different ways relationship to the food the time your friends the
you know the cleanliness the your body it's relationship so i think when we
and at the other one i was going to tell about was cleaning the grease trap because to her
the grease trap there was this i don't think we have a grease trap here to eat in kitchen and don't have one down there anymore either oh really going to both a hole in the floor with a big
ah like a drain with holes in it like a long cylinder with holes in it that went down into
have you been always at when from gonna buy some we headed back outlets last fall in there that one of the floor it back to have when that when the septic systems started out by act up into the kitchen and only accurate so it must have got into the septic system and we had to agree that radically well this is one of those jobs that you don't have been several weeks raid in
the ground and he would come up just like
and i was like for me that was the job and least like to do but i had to be dead or would just be a mess you know and i remember lou hartman blanches has been m to you said you know lou
remember we pulled it up and and you know what face i was making the time i don't think it was ten those and the crew of his major and it was like this ah you know
like that the smell and everything he said
that's nothing i worked in restaurants all my life where they could meet and you'd pull those things up and there was decomposing decomposing pork and greece and this is nothing
and i remember thinking yes it's just some vegetables and rice and a few you know what is this one what is my distaste you know this kind of picking and choosing and
you know attending to some things in neglecting your you know avoiding others and wanting others this is just
the world of suffering basically so what is yes strong smells visuals spell bull's testicles at vanities touch a balls
that are unpleasant sensation due to what i consciousness knows consciousness year consciousness and to just relate to it in that way with this is finding your composure in whatever you do avoiding and picking and choosing is suffering so dogan and in the kitchen
i'm you know there's this chance to work with that are very intimately very intimate
way
shall we shall we move on from that point which we could talk about her ever every story of every picking and choosing a life has just gone through my mind
leonardo on the work crew down off a worm not wanting to be plumbing right right
i'm i'm
i'm thinking about situations where you have people have sanctioned by one thing yeah he was the other it
seems like that's a wonderful way of attacking past on
project like this uk power
i think it can be can you see anything and just what you said that may be
not so beneficial in that thing that you just described of people who have a talent and people for one thing or another being asked to do that and can you see what the other side of that might be
for those very same people for example or the flip side of vehicle if someone didn't ever get an opportunity to do something different that would be addressed because what happens to them then if they never get an opportunity
and they don't know what other chance to it
so they don't get to know themselves in this new and fresh situation and find out about what that might be even though they don't think there's a good editor or they've been told them not good at enter that person looks really good at it
so that's one thing about these positions the monastic positions
both these six temple officers by the way that question last week about the the three worth the three officers
collapsed into one that was earlier than dominee i just wanted to clarify that that was the chamois jingling that earlier version of the pure rules written in eleven or three they had a fewer number of officers they were and then in dobyns time it was the six a swindon mentioned that
so in all these practice positions
both of six officers and all the other different things and tas her in particular green gulch a little less and the city a little loss and tells her in the summer less but for a practice period feeling brett practice period atmosphere people let's say you know somebody's come down to test the her and thereof you know they've worked in
our office they're really good with clerical skills
computers all that stuff you may save would you please be work in the shop
where can the shop i've never held i don't even know what to wrenches united and that is just the than there they are like baby again not knowing anything that knowing
and this is very fresh very difficult sometimes and very
it helps you to be awake because if you put them in the office they can do with one hand tied behind the back their back and
new those of you will been in practice period and are doing things maybe you aren't that good at or haven't done before there's something very fresh even though it's difficult and you meet yourself in a different way and you develop your undeveloped side and you come up against your likes and dislikes and
your ego stuff and your investment in being
you know really good at computers and nobody's asking me to do what i know best you know all that comes up so there actually is a practice of not putting someone in there
ah ha in their element yeah except for plumbers
no not really because often and plumbers they've been there was a series of plumbers who
left them center why because
they weren't being given it they weren't being given a beneficial practice situation they were being given they were being played to their strengths
and so they they weren't developing really they were serving the community but at the their own experience most so they weren't really treated with a certain kind of respect
in the summer when we have the guess the tests are we asked people to where do you want to work and it flips
people who are good in the office we put him in office because
we have to really take care if we don't have a lot of room for mistakes and there anything but during practice period we put people like i said the ten cells when we looked at down
what the record
prerequisites for the job and learn knowing how to cook if not one of the ripper for three you put seventy eight has never been in the kitchen before as tensile why because they have a practice mind and
that's all that's all but in the summer we have guessed cooks you know who are aunt who are good at cooking who can get those cases out in just with that crispy creams
we haven't do so we will do that are most net apologetically it's just that summer practice
but that isn't to say that we never have people doing what they love to do i don't think or want to be caught in that formula either but for the most part for practice reasons we you know shifted all around and can of throw it all into
a jumble on put people in places they've never been before
also i think in that vein is nothing like i was saying in the beginning there are
i might not want to do the grease trap and nobody wants to been reached cat but
you know somebody has to do it and or
i think in those cases we try and have everybody do it rather than just you know one person really good you're really good at that if you get to do that enter yeah
shall we move on little bit
i actually said yeah that's the restaurant jump into the before and it and your nose the infrastructure has a horror completely the thing and or may not be reached job anymore
maybe some me so he says of your head or may not as can enter into a sewer system and it does get co-op game or when everything crunches
okay
you know i realized that if we go line-by-line we will never get off his pay for so how'd you do you feel right if we skip down a little bit
if this next line is just well i can't skip do not give away a single drop from within the ocean of virtues you must not fail to add a single speck on top of the mountain of good deeds is just don't you might say like this resting on your laurels it's just basically don't rest on your laurels every single moment you may have this aperture
in egypt
to exert yourself to the fullest but not holding back anything and even if it's you know it's like bringing your cup this is what just occurred to me bringing your cup to the dishwasher in or you forgot it i left it up there you go going back getting the cup and bringing you know rather than seventy or up
it's like you don't waste one speck for your in this endeavor a practicing lawyer and it's it has to do with not being slack you know what ever saying about not being slack and you practice
buddha ancestors always caution you not to be slack and your practice that's because practice and realization is one so don't waste any opportunity this kind of thoroughness so that's that's pointing to them
the yeah we should area know i mean people turn up the heat the grew from yes go ahead
you're getting can i say i just wish that this were really true about the cuffs about
everything we do i mean
because it's not really true
i see people leaving i don't want to get into later for specifics because then i'd get into this judgment for mine guess
and which i i personally have to stay out of because it's cheap source of the unhappiness for me and i'd try and focus on myself and what can i do but clearly i look around and it's it's not everybody doing this practice
this is our suffering this is the suffering of living in community and basically
if you look up there and everybody it is really i mean their practice is so bad handbook i mean just look at him
which is one of the reasons we have eyes cast down you know that eyes cast down and we look to ourselves
we take our own practice
and suzuki roshi there's this wonderful story of the browns which i'm sure someone you love credits think it might even be in the introduction to this book where he was chancellor just sahara and he went to suzuki roshi and said these people are we they are not they take too many bathroom breaks and not working they're talking in the
kitchen they don't clean up after themselves their product it is really bad what am i going to do with them
and suzuki ago she said
you need you have to have a calm mind in order to see virtue
and he thought
away he doesn't understand what you're doing timeline i want to know how to get these people to practice harder but he didn't say the right because suzuki mission so we went away
with turning this about seeing virtue
meeting a calm mind to see virtue so anyway that the m
can't remember the end of the story and think it's he actually practice with that rather than looking out and how everybody was not doing their perch and ruining his practice and making his cancer ship so hard so yes i think
this is very difficult really this is a very this is the suffering of our community life
and we have
various
what should i say
people have different ways that they're practicing different things they're practicing with different
commitment different understanding you know it's worlds each person is a world unto himself so that we get announcements that could mean i get or even more irritating sometimes that are spoken with frustration and anger and yeah yeah
so how can we turn that whole thing
around you know to each thing we encounter each dirty cop left out on
smokey area place or whatever
how do we see that how does that inform us how does that help our practice how does that support as to practice harder rather than be discouraging and that is the really one of the most important things about monastic life and community life one alone and one of the hardest oh
when so how how then reporting a turn around and metabolism
well maybe some of you can say is well being in the kitchen is very stressful place and
what are you feeling that i'm such a good cook
an observation you look around and use actually watch them and making a dish it magnates apparently and you see it that totally right and keep your mouth shut and that let's put my a asset and i say a recurring you say when i say mirror my mirror mine seem my
dell and whatever other things that i struggle with may be able to struggle with that which but they might be some other cool in the community that i i struggle with and they say that person is me struggling with their own ways and their consciousness and i struggle and i might just as you know sometimes i don't think of the hubby cups of coffee and brilliant cricket
they sometimes of day know if i leave it there and maybe that person will remember in a maybe i missed been missed their opportunity
think that i owed
i worked with see if i'm angry i'm situation i say that that good evening
and let's play i would thank you
i was creating so much suffering and my own mind when i live here that at one point i thought sitting than i thought i know have a business card made and all it's gonna sound is none of mine
he didn't know never are when
can i actually did enemy i'll give up
you know i think i'm
you can't see rich unless you overcome and you can't see virtue so the effort is finding our imperturbable way seeking mine rate so that
you could say that the practice and then what you do when you encounter that the dirty cup there's no i mean you can leave it was thinking the person will come back and you can take it
you can but secretly you don't want anybody to see that you're gathering cups and sally and being such a good body south furniture you know the story of suzuki roshi cleaning the bathrooms in the middle of the night
there's a story of suzuki roshi when he was some and commissar university in the dorm and the bathrooms were not very or not this is the soto zen
university where the monks a preschool and the bathroom was just not taking care and he could stand it and he wanted to clean it but he didn't want people to see him created because then he would be doing it for all the
how he wasn't doing it so that people would think he was a good or better than them it would be putting himself above others
so he did it in the night secretly he would wait to people who sleep but then he secretly kind of one of them to know he was doing it and this struggle with his ego about what of the saw me why i kind of want them to know but i don't want to help because that right
so
i think if the end you just through the whole thing out the window just clean the bathroom with anybody sovereign and he just that kind of bite you cannot settle right and he just ah just clean the bathrooms who cares like that so same thing with the dirty cups and all the other things that we see the showers that needs grubbing and just or
all of it
we each of us has to settle what we're going to do when we encounter this this is our life this is our study of the self
what you do with dirty cup and what arises in you around it
and and also
having compassion for others who
our as distracted or safari or whatever so that they forgot the cup was there in events in there too
or maybe they were there was a fire drill and they left it and ran what what's in there you know it's not necessarily air we can't jump to conclusions so anyway this is that this is scheduled call on this is the co-owner of everyday life these are the encounters in the minutiae in the details of are living together that
you know are very painful mrs in all monastic situations this is from what i've read of christian monasteries and you know this is living closely together in intimately
this is family life this is this is human beings you know
yeah
what each the final comment but
when it comes to remind it that i
it's intellect
at is what the appropriate response
think that i can remember who said when for the question is what is the combination of you know progress and the answer is an appropriate response yeah but i don't know where that first came from the bathroom but but that me is also part of that what do you do in the situation
what is from what from what your practice as become whether it's cups or yeah whatever
and in with bitmain this guy shin whatever comes his if your life someone else may look at their cup
they put another maybe they don't even see it or it's like
anyway how you react to the cup it's not inherent in that old cup tie him about comes to
have you your relationship to that if your life and nobody and speaking to you but i don't mean it comes to
that's your reaction and your emotions and your whatever it is that's you that's your world that's your life if not some something
out there some old dirty shower how you see it relate to it and what you do is your life
mf not figuratively speaking if you know that's
shall we will pick the spencer doesn't exist in to into their hello totally there is no centers are a dirty our meeting with else come visit another way i just saw this marriott resistances better
so and it's all just opportunity it's just buddha dharma you know it's just buddha dhamma whatever it is
when the when you see and thirty shower and morley move on the practice for a number of years
what here
yeah if you see it marley well yeah the garden yeah yeah well yeah i can't answer that right now you know
how are the last time you what what what occurs to me is the toilets some of these toilets we encountered in china actually got a cursory the of were toilets we encountered in china we were told that we would be going certain places where the facilities the better facilities would be not what we're used to you know but
so this one and catherine can attest to this several were like this where it was like do you mind me going into this image i've been able to access it was like a trough
and then sort of these dividers sometimes debate with no doors and a low divider not a big so it like
if you were squatting you couldn't see the person next to you but but they were just these divided no doors and then there was no seven several of them had no water flowing so it's just this trough
with the
ah
defecation so forth of everybody who had been there for i don't know how long would for the day at least and i guess they would come in with a hose baby and so you know i could imagine me having a state of mind saying i can't do this you know i'm not going in there or whatever or can imagine somebody
but my state of mind in china was whatever man
what it's like whatever i it's like it did not bother me i swear in the least it was so fascinating and so interesting and so such a strong experience and then when we're all in there together to for all squatting and that's just the whole thing was just such a kick i mean that though
but in another state of mind you know to walk into a bathroom like that like in mill valley something everyday suffering from a bit different condemned you know would open to trust have received and you wouldn't see it in an april i may never see the yeah it depends if a donation of but
so no toilet paper of course and no nothing so but i i just an assistant like patting my own it was just that was where i was at i was just like
so it's not and that was he there isn't anything inherent in any situation really that necessarily means one thing or another and you can take that to the most extreme
you know of being tortured and forgiving your tortures which we've heard stories about this so
so i don't know when you see the mildly mike in the garden a dependent my state of mind
really
he really is
i am bound and determined to yeah
that's okay we don't have to finish this is this is the
seems like it takes most of my it just to watch my homework
a voluntary and just to keep to like leaving no trace wherever i go and keeping things clean and not just my own observing trying to act mindfully serve the precepts it's just takes almost seems all
so that seems am
you know that becomes my focus yeah
it really going to let that go what other people's practices this is something suzuki or she said to him
it's in one of these lectures with the question and answer at the and you know that was in the with and and someone said something like when you know people are practicing are never and he was the know i think and he had to get on everybody for they weren't coming to the zendo that had and to secure she said something that something like sometimes you just
shouldn't look you just don't look
because it's very it can be very disturbed so the practices you eyes cast down you just
you know if it's part of your job or summer brings it to attention you have to do it you have to one
take it up but if it's really not in your bailiwick at the word that it's out on your watch
maybe you just
you can't do it you know it's too disturbing
so you don't look i got that was great rather than you've got it you know this keto than mania for taking care of everything and make it your you know you just let it go
when like ones route was a room where that's how we have room cleaning and we used to rulings just so pressure but everything practically just don't have right yeah that's right exactly three hundred
i did i have to do three
oh it's that of mr six flavors the ten virtues they the sense if the well that that comes in and
the thirty am
this you so i would say that this validity virtues and six taste that's a domain fencing it's the tenth the she saw or the leader of the chant if there isn't an issue so says that there's food of six three virtues and six case
he is offered to buddha and sandra
one
we don't say it anymore he said when i stay or you can we say that language in aoki language is when the three virtually success that you saw where the chant leader does it's an extra little blip at the end after the launch chance
and in the morning they say this food this meal of ten benefits nurtures as scenario practice that and then at lunch they say this so this can you let's just stay this explain the six case sweet sour something bitter spicy pumpkin
some simple
and sometimes the simple is also mild or plane that's another and spicy and hard as the same so bitter sour simple milder plane sweet and spicy or hot or salty and the three virtues did you read about the three furlongs
the page elements i know it is
soft cream and in accord with diamond others the other translations are mildness inclement this mildness cleverness and formality and then
light and flexible clean and neat conscientious and thorough when you went up there was interesting note those three virtues and the different translations but basically in accord with dharma is
the virtue there
okay how are we doing here
okay
ah
so it says if it doesn't have the six players are the three virtues the tens was not serve the community and then later on oil examining the race watch for sand while examining the sand watch her race if you and then
because you think will t every meal doesn't have those six flavors you're not really saying you want six flavors in every meal are you three virtues yes okay so in accord with buddha's way
flexible or soft clean yeah that's okay i can imagine three virtues in every room but six flavors that would be too much but later it's as if you may newly observed from different viewpoints without absent mindedness that naturally the food will integrate the three virtues and include the six tastes so
so
ah
i actually felt that this wasn't the sixth tastes literally although with in suite there is salty you know actually very salt in all
foods there is or you can't say all but there is sodium right or is sodium salt sodium chlorine there are even many many many foods right it already has its own natural salt and if you cut out salt from your diet adding salt you taste the natural salt and maybe there's a new
natural
bitter and a natural or it's the subtlety of it it may all be there within or the fact that you taste sweet
because you know better you know if you pay sweet it brings up the other so in some ways you pull up one you pull up sour and it includes you only know sour because of these other six the other five they inform each other you know you have a fine when i'm saying so that's how i understood it
for if if you're paying attention it's all there you know either actually it's all there even on the tongue by virtue of you can't taste sweet without knowing without the contrast with the other side just like light dark a relative to one another guess but or more
of about this if you might need we observe from different viewpoints you know we have a
what you point to we have a are few points get a sense you know when your yeah let me just see what the other translations are
if that's all rage
pay full attention to your work and preparing the meal attend to every aspect yourself sooner rather than
yeah so it will naturally turn out well
here it is when you look at the race see the sand at the same time when you look at the sands see also the race examined both carefully than a meal containing the six flavors and the three qualities will come together naturally so this doesn't say from other viewpoints it it says
i examined both carefully this is the sand in the
so this is some
which am erosion
and
let's see what this one says
if you allow me
i'm personally examine the race and sand so that race is not thrown away as sand
in preparing food the tensile should personally look at it to see that it is thoroughly queen do not waste race when parliament to deter
what okay watch for race when you throw it if you look carefully with your mind undistracted naturally the three virtues will be fulfilled and the six tastes will be complete so this is looking carefully
with your mind undistracted lee and this is if you may notley observed from different viewpoints so i know you get a forty foot he's saying to viewpoints right and desert yet load oh i see that we looking at the rate we're going to say thank you thank you i think that's looking remotely
first you look at the sand is their race their than you look at the races their stand there and then there was another node in one of these that that may also be sad sand and race the sand may be distracted thoughts in the race may be you know looking
separating those and make sure you distinguish thoughts another kind of figure to be
from different viewpoints without absent mindedness yeah
here's a quick question yeah what does the sand have to do it well what does that mean but why would they resent them the rest or what they were saying in in in china at that time to
they would remove that the polish they would polish the race they would also be what would we would we saw the rise being laid out there was chaff and there was was on the ground and they would be little bits of stone maybe just stuff in it so would so you separate out and have to
be careful than it was really cool so i think it's different from you know the race we get in our big fifty pound bags you know it's really clean right when we rinse it but it doesn't have much stone or i mean occasionally you might find a little piece something in the but can been sued by this
means you find stones question server yeah
okay so then there's the story of show a from and don't sandwich i'd like to save maybe for our enactment of it okay
and dumb
for the tensile rolling up the sleeves is combined with the way no rolling up the sleeves that the rogues
this is a workroom this is like sleeves rolled up you but you might say but the long sleeves there's a way of
tucking them back or time them back and
which is maybe symbolic of let's get down to work it's like what do we say in english about role of use we roll him upright let's just like that these are tying up this week so
tying up the sleeves
is the mind of the way this is practice realization is if not is this to call
have to draft your cooking
if you have made a mistake cleaning race and sand corrected by yourself
the shinji says when you cook food if you intimately and personally look after it it will naturally be pure
so he
ah you know i was told when i became tanzania of the floor wasn't queen the food would not taste good
and i remember thinking
when i mean for its lsu you're dropping the food on the ford scraping backup and serbian
what is a kind of wonder what that really had to do i mean yeah figuratively speaking it meant take care of everything
but i think actually if you're not taking care of
the big picture
you're actually not taking care of the food even if you think you are a great cook and there you know followed the recipe perfectly in so
if you intimately impersonated look after it will be naturally pure or period this is pure food for the monks that you're offering but also
there is something to say for cooking food with love and care and attention that is actually healthier food to give to people you actually
yeah i was reading this is some i get this women's newsletter christine northrop maybe some of you notice a book women's with women's bodies women's was making it just as monthly newsletter in the sun
particular newsletter was about organic foods and cancer and flax seed
every different things and she said she was
recommending a particular flax seed that she feels is very good at someone wrote in to say that's not organic flexi and then she wrote this long article about how these people
then she knows and knows the farm grow the flags and how they can how they harvested and it's not strictly organic due to such and such which they have worked out and basically of the article she said
what's even more important than organic sometimes is whether it's done with love and care you actually receive that in a subtle way into your body's and it may be more important than these other things we usually hold to that are the most importantly so there was a dog and you know
you intimately personally look after it will be naturally pure curtain if it's a lot of yourself and personal am sorry why you think you from says
where was wrong with like sharing her yeah because he says that over and over doing it with your own or watch the race with your own
do these jobs yourself
you know prepare the vegetables by yourself with your own hands why do you think he might be saying this
java or just to take on it why might be some it's a person that idea for hooper catch the idea of a that's where this
i have a just to take on a purchase anyone else have a sense of why my pieces because he wasn't
here's a
in an ideal situation to her
not the or of the opportunity to the collector's slap some things just sort of giving out to someone else because you know you're doing it or whatever so rather than
possibly the choosing certain tasks to do
because you want to go about the for whatever reason
but you just do everything yourself a very carefully
who do you think he's talking to hear that i think what is whose audience was i think is kind of important to and myth
yeah this community this particular meaning
i was i went i don't know but i wonder if maybe that when he's talking about the turns out he means that terms of the york he also means the whole kitchen crew
he here with me
the tangible that was
ah
you know disseminated among the monks at i think he started to come more than just the ten so i think he's talking to all the monks about how are you
about
this particular mind this is the mind a practice mine many talking about
and another thing that occurred to me it comes in later he brings up the example of a tens of wasn't
an example for the community know he laid around and is bad all the drink and chanted a little bit and you know never walked into the kids never saw a pop delegated the whole thing and you guys to the okay so i'm head cook well gives me a chance to take a break you know
so i think he may have been countering
the misunderstanding or the not yet educated in this song dynasty way of taking care of food that he he was so struck by you know and it was so important to him we went there and he was trying to apart this to
the be native japanese you know practitioners who didn't yet know this was the importance of the making pure fruit for the monks for the saga so i think teaches emphasizes that over and over that this is it's not mean your it's not beneath you to do ah
these tasks this is
ah
this is your practice realization right here don't be fooled thought i think he emphasizes it as a corrective action to yes but just to i don't think use any different back down a mean it's a shame
they were i know my mind like seems i've i've been around for why a why you know what i i shouldn't have you offer yeah but what those newcomers to nominee i work hard already known that
i'm sure crowd was minister for environment
well i think that's true you know we come into these jobs sometimes and we have a higher call thinking about what is belief you know i worked for a woman who
hired a creamy lady and the cleaning lady said i don't fetch and i don't stoop you know those were there was part of what she wouldn't do in the job you know
whatever that meant to her and some people and i known that the person said i will not get down and my need to scrub floors you know now
that's their world their mother had to wash floors for living she would not do that but when i was given the job of washing floors
during a session once
yeah i was gonna have a nice and caesar never think bucket in the bubbles and my brush and i'm just going to throw myself into this job i have never watched the floor magnesium keeping it in and then i did this cigarettes stretched out with a big round circle like a yogurt thing you know
around you know that i saw this rainbow bubbles just oil you know and then there was another one and another one in
this is washing the floors and your nice i mean it was like the greatest thing ever
the and i hadn't dropped acid or in thing you know
so
so what we have in mind about i don't stoop and i don't wash floors i'm a nice you know it's like you're missing you know what are the most enjoyable opportunities if your life right so but we have man i want to be a manly man and i don't do this and this woman's work and raise
it's all broken up the whole world is all broken up into little
categories that we don't you know that mean things and then we're above or below that and this is rage and i really really so and then you come into a zen monastery this is the ideal you might say
and you fight like issue so speaking of toilets issue so his job as cleaning the toilets that she's so the head monk is the toilet cleaner now you'd think the head monk they sit next to the editor the abbess the
they faced out be get served they do the ceremonies the wash manjushri for his bath they do everything is that tells her
and they're the toilet cleaner is there's some can i hear you rate this is like flipping the world upside down there's no categories the world is not made of categories we make the categories and your categories and my caregiver is a very different rape it's menial to somebody is
canal heavenly realms so i think ah
it's this you do it yourself and you find out if you're paying full attention and throwing yourself in
full body and mind wholeheartedly the world reveals itself to you in all its
local mafia in all its
inconceivable
life i don't know what to say even yes michael van a sir this is going on what you're saying if struck with how much this is talking about paying attention to yourself and let go you know let it let it go
if you know there's there's work to be done and so forth to keep your eyes down the attention to yourself but don't worry about what anybody else is doing yet that is kind of balanced with within its hands hierarchy and in chance organization and rather you know an intense expectations
so how does it get done how is it that that things do get done when the practice has been a very close attention to so but in actuality it seems like what really gets done is stuck on the self as well as that which is out or what you call herself the
well yeah
you know
her and it goes out further and we're talks about putting hide things and high shelf and role in st lucia
and we may think high is better i mean our oreo keyboards we were supposed to put them up they don't go on the shoe racks but it's not that up
is better and long is worse it's just that a certain things go on high shelves and other things go in low shelves each thing has its place
there's the categories of good and bad you know it's just each thing as it's the appropriate has an appropriate way to be with it
but i'm
it's quarter to and i didn't get to this eight have to get to this because they didn't want to choose since last week which is about this mouse thing yeah
so this next paragraph about keep the white water that drains and and so forth and it's it's really the details in a gmo she says don't need takes us by the hand and shows us about zen practice and and here it's it's really you take bag and you strain the left over water you use that it's just you don't waste
anything so but this next thing after you have collected the ingredients in a part yes you must be sure to protect it from old mice falling in by mistake also do not allow where i ideally wanders by to examine it or touch it and for the those of you know the story know that
a year ago i think it was fall practice period yeah it does sahara
the soup came in you know and it will serve and
someone from the cross the role saw this person be certainly that oh she's getting so many vegetables in her bowl i wish i'd got more vegetables in mine but that person had received in her bowl for soup it was a mouse now
and she
set it down and put her hands and gosh british for the
so for the so cool the head server to come and take ball which been
and then i guess afterwards people were not so happy that it wasn't announced
hello came out and said there will be no seconds offered on the southern tyler
that's why on what they're agreeing with and i don't know if i recall start authorities in between and it would probably not yeah yeah but meanwhile everybody sees in their suit brain
so who is there the extreme or the are there
anyway i'd read this before about double mouse filing am thinking well you know nowadays but
this would ever happen but there it is rare it is right around when i would reply to play new yang on the last year even in lovelock yeah
why is ago now it's an old mouse and the other translations in one of them it's a rat heart says when the rehab
into an iron pot guarded with attention so that rats do not touch it or people who are curious do not look in at it because
this is another story and i wanted to tell tonight i think i could talk during the same practice period where there was no food i told him about the practice food less time were susan you are here either that to the road at tassajara was blocked by boulders and and they couldn't store
the stores were not
there was a lot of store of rice and grain and everything into sahara and they couldn't get anything in and so it dwindled down to wheat berries and salt and think is what we have left i wasn't down there but what was lifted us are and
anyway before it was just wheat berries that that for breakfast they would have grewal gruel is the leftovers of the day would be served for breakfast now we do grewal at night and fresh
a grain for breakfast but the gruel would be prepared and then put on the stove and kind of cook all night and people would sneaky they weren't getting enough food or they were age of agenda food they may have been getting enough and they would sneak into the kitchen and aid
and
eat the group called the tensile at brown realized that people were stealing the group which he was completely
outraged at right so he decided that he would stay in the kit can tell him i stay in the kitchen in the night and i wait to see who was stealing ah so that the stoves that has how great big stoves and between and of have the sierra can't picture i know there were two stoves
and then a kind of grill in between that had a wooden top
and he sat up on the grill said thousand dark
if kitchen me
the
oh to scare a person and in the night whoever it was came kept going a modular kitchen and he read added a wedding to
some scared the wits out of home
anyway i think he was trying to make sure that
nobody poke their fingers around on addicted to the pot you know how to doing his job doing his job yeah who was it i don't actually have the retina
about
there's other stories about stealing food from the kitchen which i will not tell tonight because show we should we just asked for volunteers about an end we've just break into little clumps in the room and and you decide what you want to do
okay yes okay so
i think we need a group of three or maybe two groups of three show a fung and don't shot and a narrator so two groups groups of three you wanna just clump
we just go round and count
yeah well that work that way
matt okay sort of foreigners that their live here
we will get out near
i think with because it's i think it won't work to come just because it's not even groups generally mean we're rich microchips of through the real world to through or two three of them oh i see you want to
yeah make it your dad okay how about this to grow up to three one two three and then what about
susan do you think you could get together with judith and jim knight for printer to be reviewed canadiens right on the air and are a but so gwen do you think you could talk with him and may maybe work out it's it's a simple one i think the the show a story de
okay to want it we want to three
and now we need
another group of three i think the ten zo and the neri narrator plus to so another group of three lumia marry michael one two three and another group one two three you three
okay can you can you be more specific about which yeah so the first two groups of three are show fung indonesia on page thirty five the rice the race and the overturning the pot and then the next group of threes is page forty
page for he
which is
at tanjong the
kenzo name of your the personal yeah brazil new new on the zone at neighbor or we're going to be over to yawn
who said what time should it he was with the mushrooms in front of the buddha hall drying them okay
okay so that's that second and groups okay now we've got the ship's captain the one with the captain's so we need a group of
oh i think it's one two three four five by that's page forty forty two
forty three forty two so on page forty at the top is the
dougal
let's just be quiet for one second so
at the bottom of page already to just hold at the same as a top of page forty there's the monk who
was drying the mushrooms and had the shaggy eyebrows okay so that's you guys then at the bottom of page forty and forty goes to a forty two i think forty three forty two is
this is a longer one with lots of narration about the guy who came to the ship and he has that long conversation with them so that i included but they're not speaking parts unless you want to make them the captain and the crew member re bought the mushrooms from go get the ten zone and narrator so that's one two three four five okay so
one two three four five cadets that one group dpr know ending with michael
okay and then the last one is on page forty to see how many do we have left to either
let's say you weren't here we're going to do theatrical thinks ring
reading another group of five maybe
the next record aircraft for i want to do for five and then on the floor yeah okay so another group of five that's you don't want to do it so one i'm gonna actually i didn't really you could do a narrator our crew member even yes one two three four catherine as five and this
isn't this the ship if scares the shit
okay and then where where it started well as i would be this this wasn't allowed to say no because by the second doing event linda and her on i and less battery and that's and internet for for this
so you folks who can go through last one on page forty and two were that same tens of goes to the monastery and i am
recognize that meets up with him again and up again and that's on page forty years later
okay so why don't you are club in different parts so you can talk to each other you guys come over here we would you want to learn a different translation just say quite sure i am as
size of nickels now at a time waster matter if you're probably
are