We are very happy to welcome you today. I'm happy. This time I came to here for a session at Colorado. Colorado State. Maybe very cold now. Under zero degree. So no temperature.

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Cold. And hot. It's not broken way. I understand. Human, if lazy, at a time, broken, way. Colorado is very cold. I think I am very happy.

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Because Hard is easy for good, for doing and doesn't. If warm place, sometimes sleepy. And thinking... Something noisy and confused, make confused. Cold is very clear.

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soul. I am very happy. This time I came with four monks, from Iheichi to monks, other priests to monks. they are very good monk and young I always I think and say Everything is young age. What do you do at young age?

[04:42]

Hmm? When... When you are young age, What do you do? What have you done? Sometimes I ask me like that. A little shy. Hizukashi. I will go, I will do more practice than then and study.

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I'm now, I'm now living in the age of It is in the mountain. This year, February, first, come down, snow, many. A few days, I will come down, snow, very. Rogen then, Rogen then say some poem, somebody in the mountain, he, somebody loved mountain.

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and go. Come and come. His body is mountain. Mountain is his body. Mountain is somebody's body. His body is not his mind, himself. And not even little something. Nothing.

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No dust. No... Mountain is... What is my mountain? What is my... my body. Our Zazen is do one thing, just one thing.

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with all of the world, all of cosmos. We small breathe. It is a cosmos wind. Because therefore, when we citizens doing cosmos, cosmos practice. Here is in the city.

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This is the city center. But here is a mountain because people come together, do chazhen, and practice, eat, This morning we do eating in Zen Do. So Do. We eat. This is... practice.

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At that time, we asked to talk to a meal or bowl, chapstick, a spoon, each time talk. When I Wash a bowl. Like that. Clean, clean. Wipe. And next time, next to you, a spoon. Wash. Each time we talk to spoon, a chapstick.

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Each time we match heart, mind, bowl, meal, chapstick. Each time together. It is good, good practice. Our way, our Zen way is with do with everything. Long breeze.

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Quiet breeze. This is cosmos wind. If you have some questions. Is there your question?

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Hi, if you're prepared in my lab. Food. Food is food. The only same. Now I'm age. not the same lay people's food little change Japanese food little change, changing, changing make a company make a

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Yeah, fast food. There you go. When you cook in the past, are you cook? Do you cook at your home? Okay. Cooking is thinking. Thinking about family. Old men, old men, oh, hard thing no good.

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Or children need energy. Many things, thinking. And with heart, with warm heart, make it good food. But, uh, Maybe fast food was if I buy from stores. No cook, just eat. It's good, no good. No. We need eat just food, not.

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We eat something. We warm something. We eat. And grow up. Baby grow up. Old man, long life. And save my mind. People are good. What is the most important thing about serving food? With your heart.

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Scoop. Cheerio. service and with your heart mind don't don't hurry don't easy just Just stop with your heart.

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I was wondering whether the monks eat AHE, who they eat all the meal in the center, or sometimes eat also with the land people. Sometimes we eat every people. Hmm. Hmm. Sometimes I eat with people. Always with together, monk. Morning is shuku.

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Morning. Shuryo. No meat. Fish. No fish. No egg. No milk. No milk. No cheese. Cheese milk. And onion. Onion. No garlic. Garlic. Yeah. Because a little smelly. Yeah.

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Let's see if... No need so much power. If young people, young men eat onion, garlic, maybe want meat and fish. And they're very powerful. Not no need so much. If I eat, if I eat,

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At the time, thinking about eat. It's good. But eat, thinking of, if I eat, eat, at the time, same time, other thing, thinking. Okay. Right? Thinking is, thinking is a good, a doing, same. Think and the leg or hand move, same. Brain move, hand move, same. Not separate. Eat, hand, mouth, chest, tongue, eat. Pinging, brain, eat. This is, I think this is , right?

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We're practicing, this practice period, we're talking about kindness and service. Thousand hands and a thousand eyes. What do you think about that? This is here's Avarokiteshibara Thousand eyes, thousand hands. Each person has hands.

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Whole world, people have hands. The eyes. Thousand meaning it's many. Here is abruptness. Tenth and one thousand. And 1,000 eyes approach to shibara. This is not stature. Move and eat and laugh. People have warm compassion, mind. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. you have, we have already a warm heart, warm compassion heart, already heart hmm maybe you do something compassion way every time any time cleaning eat, cleaning, work you use your warm heart

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Already. Excuse me. . My son is craft something made. Last year I made like that. Carving. Every day.

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short time in the 80s. It's no good. Bad monk. Bad boy. He become pain my shoulder. Something trouble. Uh... And I want to fix something. Paying more. And I ask the doctor, he broke. Oh, this is big trouble. This cut, muscle, muscle, little cut.

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Here. It's poetry. Yeah. Can't. You must do the things you must do. Yeah, you must do the things you must do. No need thing. No need doing. Must don't. Do the things you need. [...]

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Do the things you need. [...] Beautiful. This morning, weather is good. Very beautiful. People are very beautiful. Kyoto, you like Kyoto? First time. Hmm. Please come. Please come to my temple.

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Hi. Yes. Can you stand with father still there? Hello. [...] You know. My father is very strict. My father said, I will go to America. I think... Yeah, it's a joke. At the time, at that time, I think, I think sword, and I saw.

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Good, good work. job. Please, good job. Good work in America. I think so. My father had four children. My sister, two sisters. One brother. He left the children in Japan. One brother, one brother bring to America. Other, me and the two sisters and Japan.

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He throw away children. No? Yeah. He bring our mind Very heavy, heavy thing. Bring, huh? Come, with calm. Our mind, with calm. Maybe he is thinking always, thinking about Japanese children.

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he he he did good good job Kishizawa Iyap He had one daughter and wife and daughter. They left the house. He became a monk. After he never met I think always he thinking about daughter and wife and she practiced and studied.

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Were there light songs in Japan like Zen Center into light people's zazen? Yeah, these are in my temple. There are lay people that come to Shizuki Roshi's temple in the morning and then one big day a month. Most people come up. Yeah. Okay. What is the passage of practice?

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Mindful. Mindful doing. Breathe. Sitting. Move. Move. I can't count. You do already. It's difficult. When you come to the center, do you feel like you're getting better? It's difficult.

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It's difficult. When you come to the center, do you feel like you're getting better? Do you feel like you're getting better? Do you feel like you're getting better? I'm very grateful. I like very much here. Very beautiful. And anything. And warm.

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I'm happy. Mm-hmm. Can we go more, too? More, more. Yeah. Describe the relation or attitude of young people who are upset and change you in your lifetime. Oh, sorry. Mm-hmm. Oh, this is a random one. Everywhere. Many times, many types, young people.

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America, many types. Same. Japan, same. Somebody had a good practice, doesn't it? Somebody liked music. That thing is not so easy for people, for Japanese young people. The dozen people, so many, few people.

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It is the same everywhere. Good thing, good thing is not so charming. Good. Good thing is not sweet. But people understand that Zen, Buddha way is good. People understand that doing a little hard. I think it's okay. Long time ago, long time ago, same, I think so.

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Chazan people, not so much. But, here. No need. Right. Not necessarily sitting in a stadium. Chanting, singing stadium.

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you very much.

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