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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi was a pivotal Zen monk and author who founded the first Western Zen monastery. Discover his legacy of "nothing special."
…so that you may not make any mistake about it. So to talk about something is to forget about yourselves. So Dongen Zen said: to study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves when you forget temporal expression of…
…without the spirit that study Buddhism is the spirit to serve everything as your own problem. That is how to study Buddhism. As Dongen Zen says, to study Buddhism is to study yourself from beginning to end. It is study of our life. No one help you. If…
…is no other way to say, we should say that everything has buddha nature, even though it sounds very dualistic and according to Dongen Zen, to say a part of it is not perfect enough. Buddha includes everything whatever there is in this world, that is a…
…things one by one, it will not result buddha if you divide buddha in various ways. That is everything we see. But according to Dongen Zen, a part of it is not perfect enough. Because if I say, if we say a part of it, the relationship between things…
…member of a family. If you say the relationship between you and your brother is not expressed well, it is ignored. So Dongen Zen says everyone is not member, everyone is family itself, because if someone is missing, that is not perfect family anymore. So…
…than the member. So that is why I must say everything has buddha nature. It is not a perfect expression of the teaching. So Dongen Zen says: if you treat, you must treat everything. He says you must treat a grain of rice as if it is your own eyes.…
…As you know, there is a famous story: if you go to a h, there is a half dipper water bridge, han shak Kyo, because Dongen Zen used to bring back the leftover water to the river. After he used half of the dipper of water, he took it back to the…
…different person forgetting all about what you have been doing, and you should just sit. Zazen is everyday practice in zazen. Dongen Zen says you should give up everything when you practice zazen and you should put everything aside and should practice zazen…
…to the. So the point is on each moment and to forget the point and to extend our practice forgetting ourselves. So as Dongen Zen says to study Buddhism is to ourselves and to study ourselves is to forget ourselves on each moment. To forget ourselves it…
…as his teacher. So something that you know teacher want his student to steal something he may not steal it. So we say Dongen Zen said we must practice hard for our descendants, for our disciples, you know not for himself, but for if he. If we know…
…at hand. This scripture includes both sides. That is why this scripture is called King of all scriptures. I think that is why Dongen Zen liked this scripture and he referred to this scripture so many times in shobo Genzo. So so I want you to you you…
…something will happen. You know, we should be able to see things as it is. Then there is true friendship. We say so. Dongen Zen said we say buddha and people. But when buddha is buddha, people are also buddha. When we bow to buddha, everyone who bows…
…kesa, gathering various materials and sewing together and designing it in this way after the shape of buddha appeared. But here the Dongen Zen states refer to the ten names of kesa. By the way, Dongen Zen wrote more than 95 versicles of teaching about…
…after the shape of buddha appeared. But here the Dongen Zen states refer to the ten names of kesa. By the way, Dongen Zen wrote more than 95 versicles of teaching about transmitted teaching, and two of them are about kesa. Two versicles are about kesa,…