2:30 5:15 13:15 is very nice

Such gentle teaching. 🙏 Daizan Roshi

There is no downsides to awakening 😊

Hello Sirs. Your books make an especially good combination and helped me to appreciate and realise a few very important things. I listen to them every now and then (the audiobooks) to remind myself of those lessons. Thank you.

🙏 Greetings Daizan. Today I took my first step in The Search For The Ox. I bow to you with a full and emotional heart. Much gratitude. 🙏 Vince

does cushion has to be round? or square ones would work? @zenways

Thank you for the suggestion about such a difficult topic. Cheers from Brazil

Thank you gentlemen. 🙏

🙏 Thank you Daizan

He Knows.

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Maybe the transfer of merit is a conscious acknowledgement of individual practice within the context of Shunyata. The apparent benefit felt by the individual practitioner is simultaneously a benefit freely extended to all.

Beautiful video, Daizan. Wishing you safe travels.

Thank you so much Daizan Roshi. This is exactly what I needed to contemplate currently in my practice. Lovely also to see you there and share the journey. With much thanks to you, Shinzan Roshi, Haquin Roshi and others. 🙏

2 options for me 1. I will scratch 2. The itch becomes the focus of the meditation and I breathe and mentally repeat itch until it subsides and I can return to observing the breath.

rest in present awareness be still close eyes listen to your breathing.

Gassho . How wonderful ! Thank you Julian Daizan , it must be so recharging to return to Shinzan Roshi's mountain retreat, and again sit on the rock. "Hakuin is my Dad"

Thank you for sharing this. I have heard so many teishos re: Hakuin - it is a pleasure to see this as it localizes or animates the lovely context of his lived experience.

🙏 And greetings to you Daizan Roshi, from Bigfork, Montana. Much gratitude and thanks. 🙏

Ive finally worked out that the teachers voice and inflections remind me strongly of the spiritual non dualist Rupert Spira.

You might want that "house in Putney" (London). Very specific 😅 Great explaination of meditation benefits and side effects

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春はお尻とキンダマじゃねんだ？アホ剥げ様😂😂😂

I'm lovin'it! 😂 季節限定ヨガ法ですよね⛄😺いい加減にしろ👺

🙏 thank you Daizan. Wonderful topic and could be an entire series. Again thank you.🙏

季節限定ヨガ法😂😂😂🤯🧑‍🦲

Lovely interpretation

Even saints get caught by the snake. In reverse, all words could be in reverse, no attachment and the cobra involves neurantomical reflex tuning in the void. Thus, confusion can become clear. The dragon protects the crystal, Shinto canot exist without and the dragon is always before how far back in history a symbolic based memory can reach. Nice videos.

Thank you for this! Please make a video on how to do everything from your belly.

Thanks for the video!

Forever beginners mind?

I usually figured in the Saint George and the dragon example what was being expressed was the dragon serpent symbolising the ouroborus or *the dweller at the threshold* which was being slain. Like the old children's hymn. When a Knight wore his spurs in the stories of old, he was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold. With a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand for god and for valour he rode through the land. No charger have I and no sword by my side. Yet still to adventure and battle I ride. Through back into storyland gaints have fled And the Knights are no more and the dragons are dead. Let faith be my shield and let joy be my steed, against the dragons of anger and the ogres of greed Let me set free with the sword of my youth From the castle of darkness the power of gods truth Always remembered that since I was a kid that stuck with me. And I wasn't raised religious and am not religious we just had to sing it for assembly in school. And I remembered it. And it think it's deep with symbolism. It's harkening back to a time when giants strode the land overcoming great challenges and though it may seem like those days are gone we still face the exact same challenges today. And while our tools may be different we can still slay the beast and restore peace to the land if we hear the call. Hard to label this is anyone thing though as dragon and serpent mythology from around the world symbolises so many different things. So it can be anything you want it to mean in essence, I know there's a lot of fung shui black dragon white dragon stuff related to mountains and rivers. Really can dive endlessly deeply into this stuff much like anything else. From any perspective you choose

I had a major kundalini awakening about a decade ago. In Zen it was brushed off by the masters as just another wave in the ocean. But it certainly was not. At that time I had a great capacity to consciously face what the Ego simply strive to avoid. But this energy simply caused the nervous system to resist on a deeply unconscious level. The masters stubbornly refused to acknowledge my experience. Soon I left Zen and found a Hindu teacher that handled the situation with great insight. As it happened I had to leave Zen to fully reveal the Truth that Zen is all about. Nowadays I guide many, many students that have left Zen for very much the same reason. There is clearly a blindspot in the tradition, although this video may be the exception to the rule. Thanks

How wonderful to again hear your teaching on this journey, Daizan Roshi. You truly helped me so much when this energy blasted off for me those years back now. My gratitude always

"It's all good and it's on your side". It was for me outside of a Zen practice, but it hasn't been for everyone, as psychiatric hospitals can attest. I would advise against attempting to raise the kundalini and just allow it to raise if it does. I found I could tell it to calm down if it interfered with a meditation and it would. For a full explanation, one would be best to consult with Hindu traditions.

That's a very good explanation!

Exactly what I needed to hear right now. Thank you Daizan. 🙏

Fascinating. Should I abstain from releasing sexual energy if on Zen path?

Very interesting Daizan, thank you for this talk! I recently started dating a person practicing Kundalini stuff who asked me about Zens relation to Kundalini and then this popped up! 🙏

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🙏 Many thanks Daizan. I really appreciate your heartfelt videos. Guidance. Kindness. Honesty. Humor. Wisdom. Encouragement. I live in a very rural area by choice. Having access to your videos is truly a gift to all. Tusen Takk. 🙏

If there was a love option on here I’d use this. This is so awesome. So much truth. Thank u Daizan Roshii!

To me, meditation starts where psychotherapy leaves off. In my experience, psychotherapy can help you get to a place where you feel safe enough to be present to your experience, which is where meditation can come in. It all depends on where you start from. Some people don't need psychotherapy to be able to tolerate feelings; others may use psychotherapy as a help during specific life difficulties. Also, therapies differ enormously and one or two are closer to or very compatible with a Zen understanding.

When you describe how generous people are in traditionally Buddhist countries in Asia, this reminds me of how, in some Native American peoples, a person's wealth was not counted as what you kept but what you gave away. Someone who hung onto more than they needed was pitied and seen as lacking. Even today, when my friend's daughter travelled in Morocco she was amazed by how generous people were, not thinking to offer a meal or accommodation to a stranger. I think many cultures outside the "West" still have genuine, living traditions of generosity and hospitality which we could learn from.

Thank you.

I wanna battle 😂❤

Please don't mention the worst war criminal in history

🙏 Just what I needed to hear. Many thanks Daizan. Many thanks. 🙏