…desire. When you have no idea of evil evil desire is not evil desire. That is how you stop it. Thank you very much, Tokyo Roshi. From my practice I believe that the hardest and deepest teaching of Buddhism for all men is to know not to be attached to…

…free from the idea of attachment or detachment, knowing that attachment and detachment is two sides of reality. Thank you very much, Tokyo Roshi. How are we to know how to behave when a strong dualistic situation arises in our life? It seems as though we…

…actually how you get out of self greed. I am very grateful for your deep compassion and encouragement. Thank you very much, rosho. Roshi, I am finally learning that there are two sides to everything good and bad and black and white and I find that many…

…be. Your practice will go beyond actually breathing, counting. You are counting but you are not counting like you count something. Roshi, sometimes when we have discussions about the dharma you are quoted. Roshi said this. Roshi said that: how do we find…

…are counting but you are not counting like you count something. Roshi, sometimes when we have discussions about the dharma you are quoted. Roshi said this. Roshi said that: how do we find our own true way with you, with me, with you? Such a baby you've…

…but you are not counting like you count something. Roshi, sometimes when we have discussions about the dharma you are quoted. Roshi said this. Roshi said that: how do we find our own true way with you, with me, with you? Such a baby you've got the best…

…you have selfish ideas, that is bad. It doesn't mean to have some special standard and measure our practice or evaluate things. Roshi, if we follow this method of calm breathing, we won't necessarily feel better physically and we may have even more mental…

…hard for me. I think you have in the wind Bell, Yes, that kind of thing, let's see. Do you have a picture of Yamada Roshi somewhere? Yamada Roshi yeah old picture maybe I don't think so, someone may have it. Do you want his picture? I don't need the…

…think you have in the wind Bell, Yes, that kind of thing, let's see. Do you have a picture of Yamada Roshi somewhere? Yamada Roshi yeah old picture maybe I don't think so, someone may have it. Do you want his picture? I don't need the picture, but…

…there. I was fortunate to see them, even though I didn't know they were so famous. But training was very strict. The oka Sotan Roshi did not become an archbishop, but under him we have many noted scholars and monks and Zen masters. He is maybe one of…

…after the war the treaty of at San Francisco, you know the treaty of complete surrender. He is a premier who signed it. Roshi what did you write your thesis about? About shobo Genzo. Study of shobo Genzo, focusing on the meaning of vow, vow or bow,…

…was very busy in writing thesis and finishing third unit. That was why I bought screen, but it didn't work at that moment. Roshi, could you tell us something about what you wrote your thesis on? Could you tell us something about it? Study of shobo…

…don't feel so good, I do like this and go go back to the mudra something like that sometimes something I don't know. Roshi, do you still hear from some of your master's disciples others and others excuse me, some of your master's disciples who who are…

…Come, roshi. Thank you very much roshi. Steep mountainside and a deep canyon. Cold, lonely wind blows over the big mine. Roshi, what will happen to my thoughts and desires down here lonely thoughts and desires are growing with the stream. It's confusing…

…this you cannot understand what is going on. Please continue to practice until you have some improvement, thank you. Thank you very much, Doja Roshi. Why do we keep our eyes open when we sit? But that is not to have so many ideas and illusions in your…

…to have so many ideas and illusions in your mind. You keep your eyes open. Please give up your practice things and breathe. Doja Roshi, is great doubt including pure great doubt, great doubt, did you say great doubt if it is not pure, it is not great…

…our recipe is you know prepared for people who practice zazen. So if you eat it you know it will help your practice. Roshi, you said that zazen was darkness and lecture was bright and things are bright. And maybe also you talked about re being this…

…Buddhism too as a Buddhist. So it is not so easy thing. So we should be concentrated on this point from now on. Roshi, the phrase dharma transmission. What exactly does that mean? What is the dharma transmission? If you are ready to listen to me I'll…

…want to talk about our practice, as usual, especially when we have various teachers. So far we have tatsuyomi roshi and ryoshi Dara Roshi and your practice must be confused a little bit this way or that way, but actually for you there is only one…

…mudra you have in your zazen. Keizan Zenji says: put your mind on your mudra or in your palm. Some teacher ryoshi Dara Roshi, says: put your thumb on your middle finger, like over your middle finger. Some other teacher says: put your thumb, have a…

…way. Someone's thumb is not right over the middle finger, maybe like this going to extreme, like this. That is not what ryoshi Dara Roshi said. This is too much. We say: if your thumb is too much like this, it means that your mind will be contaminated,…

…10 or 20 years, but for a pretty long time this kind of movement was there. So far as I know, oka Sotan Roshi was the source of all the teachers, source of power of all the teachers. Tatsugami roshi studied under Harada Roshi. Harada Roshi's teacher…

…teacher was oka Sotan. My teacher was kishizawa roshi and my master was Suzuki Son and their teacher was oka Sotan Roshi. Yoshida Roshi's teacher was Hashimoto Roshi. Hashimoto Roshi's teacher was oka Sotan Roshi. At komazawa there was a good scholar of…

…Suzuki Son and their teacher was oka Sotan Roshi. Yoshida Roshi's teacher was Hashimoto Roshi. Hashimoto Roshi's teacher was oka Sotan Roshi. At komazawa there was a good scholar of Buddhism, Eto Sokuo. He was my teacher's master's classmate when they were…

…good scholar of Buddhism, Eto Sokuo. He was my teacher's master's classmate when they were studying at komazawa. At that time oka Sotan Roshi was the head of komazawa. So if we you know things didn't happen to the Zen center just by chance if we don't…

…how to extend Ashikaga Taza to your everyday life today right now, I take out the interpretation of precepts by oka Sotan Roshi and I read the preface of it which was written by kishizawa roshi. And in the introduction written by kishizawa roshi for…

…not precepts but to be concentrated in each time, in each moment in his driving. That is the most important point. When oka Sotan Roshi was young boy, his teacher, token roshi, told him to buy being card, you know. So he went to the store on the way…