Beautiful - I too struggle between value/cost & accessibility to all, it is a tricky dilemma & i like this approach.

Life is never a straight line. That is the beauty of it. We live, we experience duality, we overcome it, and we expand our consciousness. Your podcasts were always very insightful. Happy to hear from you again. Thank you brother! May God always bless you and illuminate your path. ❤🙏

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Superb - looking forward to the return.

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The Dau is like painting an X on the boat. Nevermind the mind.

It has been a long time since you posted, sir Every one has Buddha Nature inside, and no such thing as bad person. Stupid, stubborn, unaware, carried away-yes. People with little conviction and experience, emotional, attached to desires, go tell them’. So glad I decided not to conform. Purpose of Zen is to challenge Pali and Tibetan institutions, not to disregard them… Enjoy your Shamanic Journey.

I really hope you write a book. Thanks.

The idea of making an Anki deck that the individual learner needs to customise and personalise is simply BRILLIANT! Thank you so much. Very exciting.

I'm excited to listen to fluent forever! One of my favourite books on at risk languages is: The Language Warrior's Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds Book by Anton Treuer

I have missed your talks. Gratitude 🙏

I downloaded your 'FREE Minimal Fairs Ear-Training Deck' but the app store states that the app to play/run it is not available in the US. Any suggestions on how I can play/run your download?

Thanks for the update brother! Still listen to your old episodes =)

THANK YOU. This is exactly what I have been striving to achieve myself. I am in the Snuneymuxw territory... I am 2nd year Indigenous studies student. Your perspective is much appreciated. I also realized I was lost in my identity and that I needed to do that work. I am inspired and motivated by your journey.

Zen: No reliance on words and scriptures. What's not to like

Extremely excited to see you putting out more content on KZbin! Thank you so much for this effort!

Thank you for sharing that :) Interesting that you're working with Pam, a very small world moment. She may not remember me, but I spent some time on her property, and my wife and I actually lived there for a year after we got married. She wasn't living there anymore, but her former partner rented a cabin to us. It was a beautiful year.

HI Eshu, i just saw this vid, it didnt show up in my feed for some reason. So a couple questions I have: 1. Often after an opening during sitting, there is a tendency to grasp at the experience, almost forgetting that what allowed the opening to arise was a direct attending to experience. However, during a psychedelic journey, there is a degree of openness that is almost explosive. The moment discursiveness arises, it melts like a "snowflake over a raging fire". However, this state can feel so ideal, that there is an almost subconscious tendency to "try and get back there" which ultimately causes that release to come back with a vengeance. I have referred to it as "egoic recoil". Integration without grasping is quite difficult, and I was wondering if you had any pointers or insights around this? 2. It has been said below, but reconciling the precept regarding intoxicants with psychedelic medicines. I personally don't see these medicines as intoxicants, as it does the opposite of clouding the mind, but it can cause confusion post experience that may be overall detrimental to a persons practice. I fell victim to grasping at idealism in the past and it really messed me up for a long time. I hope these make sense, I am happy to clarify.

Sensei Eshu Martin. Not long ago, I contacted you, paying my respects for your work in your Sangha in Canada. I am coordinator of a Lay Sangha in the city of La Paz, in Baja California Sur, Mexico. You even told me that you hoped one day to be able to visit us. That is why when you decided to close your sangha, for the reasons you gave, we felt very sad, because believe it or not, it was very useful to those of us who are on our way without Buddhist institutions and clergy. We always saw you as a neat, friendly person, accessible to people, you have been a source of inspiration for many, and also for me. I know in advance that being in charge of a sangha, and especially Zen, requires a lot of work, sacrifice and effort, in addition to complying with the standards of the institutions, which many times, far from helping us, overwhelms us, and is a ballast practice. I have experienced it several times, but here we are still standing, the advantage is that we do not pay rent, since it is our own place, but perhaps, if it were not so, it would have been very difficult to keep Zendo La Paz standing. We would love to see him again like a few years ago, with a shaved head, and helping to spread the 3 jewels, but now with the wisdom of the years. It's worth it. Zen must in a way that we enjoy existence every day, the practice of paramitas and Annica are infallible, in addition to Zazen as a method towards Daigo. Please consider returning to Practice Zen, we know you have much to contribute. Perhaps you do not realize the importance of your support with people around the world thanks to the internet. Hands on Deep gassho.! this is our facebook.com/zendolapaz , we are also in instagram.

You were one of the first introductions I had to zen. Forever grateful for what you do and have done.

Hello. I'm most definitely interested! Question One: Doesn't the use of psychedelics conflict with, "Refrain from intoxicants that cloud the mind"? Question Two: How would the use of psychedelics in practice interact with mental illness? I imagine it may depend on the mental illness, but say, illusions of grandeur. Couldn't psychedelics present information that may be interpreted unwisely and reinforce those illusions? Of course, I'm sure there are still unperceived illusions without mental illness. Question Three: Sorry for the extra question. What about the legality of psychedelics?

Gassho Eshu, nice to see your face in my youtube feed again :) You know my past, however its hard for me to dismiss the experiences I have had during my psychedelic ceremonies. I cant remember if it was before or after I met you, but I ended up in Peru for a few months living with a curandero in the jungle, drinking plant medicine 3 times a week and learning how to make the brews and run ceremony. It completely changed my life. Im now married and living in Calgary with my beautiful wife. Im teaching guitar full time again, which is the only work I can ever see myself doing short of studio and stage work. Integrating my Zen practice with the profound lessons learned during ceremony has always been a difficult process, Id be very curious (and I'm sure many others would be too) to hear from your perspective how they inform each other. I have a tremendous amount of respect for you, you came along at a very tumultuous phase of my life, and even though it was brief, it was significant, and I will never forget that. 🙏

Great to hear from you Eshu. Your teishos years ago have been very inspirational!

It's great to hear from you after so long. Your talks many years ago were very inspiring and I still recall them fondly.

I haven't seen You , since your hair was Long & Black .... and you were Blasting SLAYER in your Bedroom.... 😅

Thank you!

Make more new videos please.

I enjoyed much of this talk. Living seriously is important. A person can take life too seriously though. Alan Watts Zen teachings were almost never without humor. There is a correlation between things that are funny and things that are true. A poem about the appearance of the human skull and how it seems to be smiling. “Chattering finch and water fly are not merrier than I. Here among the flowers I lie, laughing everlastingly. No I may not tell the best, surely friends I might’ve guessed, death was but the good King’s jest. It was hid so carefully. “

A great help to my practice that I'm not alone , that others have the exact same things going on within us.

It would be cool if this video included a short explanation on the various parts of what we're seeing

This was a very good and raw talk. I've noticed that in your other talks you're very "formal". I enjoyed this.

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Thank you, Eshu. This is exactly what I needed now. Years ago, I taught myself to meditate just to experience God. I experienced miracles that I could not bear. I had what I came to find out later was a kundalini awakening. I experienced so much love I felt unworthy. Oddly, I began to avoid meditation. Learning to "let it all dissolve" anew sounds marvelous.

Thank you so much for this.

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