Transcript zen - Soren Kerk

ZEN
What isn’t it?
But first . . .
■ Those comparisons between Hinduism (mother) and Buddhism (child) ….
■ And calm down, Tabor 
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Buddhism_vs_Hinduism
Alan Watts
■ I oscillate back and forth between enjoying the sunset and enjoying
myself enjoying the sunset
■ Will the uncompromised sunset ever become more absorbing?
■ Will the branch of narrowed awareness upon which I rest ever sever
and fall away?
■ The bird will be set free.
Ramana Maharshi
■ RAMANA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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■ MOOJI: 2 PARTS
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBy
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– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Iq
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4 Sticks
Appreciate the focus
Simple
“The Long Search” Ronald Eyre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwzFOf9eilQ
■ Tokyo – 1 ½ thousand years …. Japanese Buddhism
– Buddha is a man.
– “Who created the world?” is not the Q.
■ Buddha taught a way, the way to nirvana
■ Japan monks went NORTH out of India … in Japan, Buddhism “is” Zen
– Zazen = sitting meditation
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Eyes closed – so where’s the Buddha, the statue? Absent. All in the breathing.
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Slap – that is encouragement
■ 9:00 Calligraphy. The O. The pinnacle of Zen
GREAT EMPTY CIRCLE
■ 12:00 Sword fighting. Begin with bow to shrine.
Hands salute your place of energy: your empty circle (stomach)
Fight not an opponent. Fight the shadow, your reflection
The moment you feel enmity or fear of death, you are defeated
WHACK: that tells teacher if student can put the whole of
himself into one simple, deflected blow
■ Bodhisattva – the compassion inside
■ Who is the Buddha: I am, you are, this table is
All are Buddha. Not something outside.
Zazen leads you to make the discovery – Buddha is our nature
■ No leader …. But Society for the Creation of Values near Kyoto.
Sokka Gaikki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soka_Gakkai
■ 21:00 Pure Land Buddhism – someday, a promised land.
The Buddhist raft will take us there.
Do we dare give 17 min to
Rupert Spira
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqtM_BkkxmM
The Secret of the Flower
■ The Flower Sermon – Buddha was asked to give a sermon.
Instead, he held up a flower. One follower smiled. “There is
a supreme truth that cannot be put into words. That is the
Supreme Truth. I have just handed it to him.”
■ One master, when asked, would lift his index finger
Bewildering dialogues
Obscure conundrums
Stunning paradoxes
Flagrant contradictions
Abrupt non sequiturs
Always cheerfully carried out
Breaking the language barrier
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No affirmation is more than a finger pointing to the moon
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Do not mistake the finger for the moon
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TRANSMISSION: Zen trusted its future to a specific state of consciousness that was to be transmitted from one mind
to another … like passing a flame
■ 3 KEY terms
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Zazen – seated meditation
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Koan – problem (riddle – shaggy dog story) … some on p. 133
reason is ltd., must be supplemented by another mode of knowing.
Drive the mind to a state of agitation ‘til it hurls itself against its logical cage
by paradox and non sequitur, Zen provoked, excited, exasperates, and exhausts the mind
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Kierkegaard: meditation on the Paradox of the Incarnation: logical absurdity of the Infinite becoming finite
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A HIGHER LUCITY IS AT HAND!
Sanzen: CONSULTATION concerning meditation
Satori description
■ Page 136
■ Kyoto answer: “No paranormal experiences that I can
detect. But you wake up in the morning and the world
seems so beautiful you can hardly stand it.”
■ Divine ordinariness
The Diamond Way –
The Diamond Thunderbolt
■ Tantra!
■ Not just sex
■ Channeling physical energies into currents that carry the spirit forward instead of
derailing it
■ Mantras
■ Mandalas
■ As rain forests are to the earth’s atmosphere, someone has said, so are the Tibetan
people to the human spirit in this time of its planetary ordeal.
The image of the crossing
Big raft, little raft, diamond raft
■ Buddhism is a voyage across life’s river, a transport from the common-sense shore of
ignorance, grasping, and death, to the further bank of wisdom and enlightenment.
■ Sometimes, something prompts us to see the other side
■ We may attempt a crossing
■ Until we set foot on the further bank, we can only trust what we know
■ When we step foot on the other side, we can remember our gratitude for the splendid
ship and crew – but we do not need them any more: vehicle of the doctrine is to be
thrown away
■ Read last two paragraphs on page 146
■ Cosmic net of jewels
Buddhism: where is it now in the
world?
■ Buddhists abound in every Asian land EXCEPT India
■ India’s Buddhism was not so much defeated by
Hinduisms as accommodated within it
Silly Stuff
■ https://getpocket.com/a/read/1271437864
■ Next week: a little quiz!