🙏 This makes so much sense to me. Thank you.

I want to copy out the transcript of this talk and memorize it, and/or figure out a way to have it tattooed into my brain.... Thank you so much. 🙏

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I really needed to hear this today. Thank you. 🙏🏻🪷

thank you!

🙏❤️ Thank you for sharing the carpet story, too.

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With gratitude and gasshos. 🙏

a middle way outside of two extremes. that is something for me to thing about.

Excellent teaching. Thank you. Gassho.

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Thankyou … gasshos

Beautiful! Gosh.. it’s almost been a year since the wonderful opening ceremony! 🙏🏼

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Koun thank you once again 🙏

Thank you Koun, beautifully put, many thanks 🙏

When you are burning with thirst, do not search for water. Remain thirsty !! Bhai Sahib in daughter of fire

Thank you for so much clarity! My humble Pranams 🪔🌿🥰🙏

This is great Koun. Thanks.

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Helpful video for me. I realized by listening that I don't need to choose or act in a direction when I'm ambivalent but rather I can occupy the liminal space between definitives. For a logician this is a hard lesson in either/or to both/and. Heave a sigh or a wish for me on my journey.

Quite a talk, one so full of wisdom. Thank you.

what a moment! And what a lesson this was for me! Thank you!

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Thank you, so crystal clear as always 🙏 兀山

Wild! Your channel popped up in my mind during my morning zazen and now here you are! Thanks for the talk 😊

I was going to say something about his ability to give such a talk without checking notes and then I thought “oops!” Yeah. Wow.

Sugoï ! I learned this expression 25 years ago in Japan and it’s well adapted to your talk ! Arigato Gozaimasu ! Mokushō

thank you for your words!

Gosh darn this was a brilliant talk. Thanks so much for the wise words, dude.

Profound and simple.

Thank you for the lesson!

Wow! Thank you for this! 🙏🏼

Clear and concise you hit the nail on the head, thank you 🙏

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This talk was....Wow! Thank you

Thank you for the commentary!

Thank you so much for this talk. I read this story and was "what the heck!? He cut that cat in two??". Your commentary was very helpful for to understand the story. Thanks!

I'm commenting after only watching 30 seconds of this video (typical of me), but I have to say that I have never understood the avoidance that most Buddhists have with Samsara. Really, most Buddhists view Samsara as a sort of hell. I view it as a spiritual spawing ground (more like a sort of Garden of Eden)...but also something unique and beautiful unto itself. What is the soul without Samsara? Samsara is that which defines a 'soul' from within the nothingness. ALL things that exist are beautiful because existence is the nature of all things. Enlightenment, I believe, is to welcome everything, and as evil as some aspects of Samasara may seem, they are really just props on the stage upon which the soul makes it's greatest acting performance ever.

It cannot be a coincidence that this video...which is rather niche (no offence intended)...came into my feed. I work on developing concepts, and my most recent work has been concerning how self-identity anchors us to the 'real world,' which in turn divests us from the siddhis. Translation: because it's so basic in human nature to think of oneself as something (a particular thing and label), we lose the ability to be ANYTHING. I think the siddhis, or emmanations in other words, are simply based upon the reality that all of reality itself is an emmanation of the eternal soul, spirit, higher self...whatever one wishes to call it. Our focused carnal experience is really just a dream of the soul, within which we can become aware (as in aware of our total self) at any time that we truly wish. ...and THAT is the secret to enlightenment.

I am both drawn to and repulsed by spiritual speakers in almost equal measure because I'm fascinated with spitituality, but I think that most speakers are nothing more than braying jackasses. So, I clicked on this video from my feed out of morbid curiosity, but I don't hate what this guy has to say with the same intensity that I hate what most spiritual speakers have to say. So...thanks?

Great lesson and many thanks (I've been a fan since the Anchorage recordings back in the day). This is exactly why, in the Tibetan tradition, we are invited to do hundreds of thousands of prostrations and other types of offerings while chanting vows and invocations -- body, speech and mind are united in the same cultivation of bodhicitta. Visualization is also used to open a further dimension. These are called "preliminary" practices, but even the masters maintain them throughout a lifetime. When I took refuge with the Tibetans some years ago in India during a month-long retreat, they joked about how Westerners always wanted explanations about the ultimate point of these seemingly "extraneous" practices (I was guilty as charged ;-)), whereas Tibetans tended to just get on with it, and the meaning became evident over time. Funnily enough, the word "faith" was often used, although "confidence" would have applied as well. At a certain point you either throw yourself wholeheartedly into the endeavor or you don't. But I also think it helps to 1) encounter a teacher who has clearly been transformed by the practice, and see firsthand what is possible, and 2) have a significant kensho in the fairly early stages and a glimpse of the Open Space, because it can be a tremendous boost in motivation. This happened to me during the retreat, and one of the lamas, after confirming the opening, then told me: "Great, but it's only a beginning. Now get back to the practice!" He was right. The bliss wore off after about two or three days, but the practice was (and is) always there -- just like those sentient beings one hasn't yet liberated. By the way, interesting that you mentioned Huberman, who has many informative things to say, but who tends to talk about meditation (which he admits to knowing very little about) in a very instrumentalized and, dare I say it, culturally appropriated manner, with no credit to, or understanding of, the genius behind the tradition. But his points about dopamine are quite salient and transferrable both to sitting meditation and other dharma activities, in that cultivating the habit of practicing becomes self-reinforcing and we can have a sort of self-arising satisfaction in the practice itself without worrying about a reward.

Hello, is this yours translation of HDG? 🙏