That’s cool

Thank you for posting this💗

Thanks for sharing

What is Mu? The earnest seeker has to ask about it day & night - so as to go deep, deep in, far far down into his inner body & mind to realize its profound meanings. Perhaps comes a day, suddenly 🤯 Boom!!!💥, he will get the Truth of it!

Uuuh,zoedeer is my true freind,in roblox lol

Mu

it seems that the 3rd part is missing , maybe somebody would know where to find it ?

thank you for this profound dharma teaching . may all beings be happy. bodhi swaha!

Was this in a Mexican restaurant?

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I want to get into my heart... into this "holy of holies, " right here, right now. Let me in. I stand at the door, knocking.

How about this: He just raised a blossomed flower as a gesture for: Dear students, yesterday, one of you has just "got it".

合掌

MU! :3

thank you for the simple explanations its hard to find Gassho

Too much thinking comes from too much understanding...it will bring a headache in a result...better to keep ignorance mind...very important...then when hungry eat...when thirsty drink...somebody tired...give him a rest...RELAX, RELAX, RELAX...enjoy your life...that's enough...you maybe not become a Zen Master...but...you will become a healthy human being...!...a Buddha or...a Bodhisattva....

Too much thinking...what is Mu...?...just forget everything...forget Mu...and you already attained Mu...that means don't make thinking...just seeing blue sky everyday...is enough...!!!!

It's interesting to see the usual spiritual gibberish interrupted by genuine emotional struggle and a lapsing into silence, however brief. Zen seems like such a slow route compared to the effortless paths, if it is valid to generalize from this video. I keep getting the feeling that Herb just needs some good guidance, so he can distinguish between what is worthy and what keeps us stuck. My best wishes for progress.

You say that "thinking about what Mu is, up here, isn't going to help". My question is "Okay, but does it hurt?". What is being hurt and being helped? Medicine helps us, we feel better, but Mu doesn't seem to really "help" in any real sense at all. It highlights the question of overcoming dualisms. Helping and hurting are certainly dual. So too is night and day, dark and light, sleepy and alert, old and young. Dualisms like these are suffused and distributed like so many thrown stars into our awareness - we ourselves feel "naturally" dual. Isn't that my shadow cast on the wall? Am I not in "life" as opposed to "death"? Dualisms form our very blood and bones. So is Mu really a practice of overcoming dualisms, or seeing through dualisms, or some funky notion about inhabiting the "energy" of the non-dual? (which seems so cloudy, by the way..) Doesn't Mu offer a kind of cul-de-sac of opinion, where the endless premises of the one who would "work it out" are seriously questioned? To what ends, the question, and from what authority the act of questioning? When the authority of the task comes from the task itself, when the whole world speaks the breath of Mu, when Mu cannot be shaken by any inquiry, or wrestled into one position or another, then the dualisms settle into their natural place. One side of the rock is warm, the other side of the rock is cool. Today is cloudy and yesterday was fine. We cannot "escape" dualisms, but we can stop arcing toward them for the meaning and the purpose of life. When we walk through forests where some trees are young, others old, where sometimes the path is wide, sometimes narrow, where there is sometimes light and sometimes dark, but we continue faithfully walking, passing dualisms galore without a break in our stride. Doesn't Mu "break the contract" we have with ourselves that resolving dualisms holds some important key to our survival? Isn't that wonderful? All of that effort we previously made in circling a problem can be saved.

thanks Joe, theres not alot of direction with koans in general, i hope to write much more about the ins and outs of the process and what it should accomplish and how to work with them in different ways as ones practice progresses!

so do i not

wish you posted the rest of the talk....it was getting good

thank you for stating that you have to build up your joriki (concentrative power) to work on koans. i recently read a book by Albert Low called "Working With Koans" and he says that you don't have to be in any kind of special state of consciousness to work on a koan. I think this statement can be confusing to many students.He never mentions in his book that koans should only be given to a student by a teacher after the student has built up his/her concentrative ability.

that's..burning man.. lol :D

glad you stuck it out and enjoyed the grand finally, ta-da!

I love it. and the cup on the right says "all will be well" in german :)

It's wonderous and relieving to hear Bernie Glassman roshi speak about prajna and karuna and putting the finger on this delicat spot. To act from compassion is deepening our wisdom. But I personally still feel a great need for the practicies that goes from prajna to karuna ... as well. To balance them. Compassionate action and zazen and dokusan. Both ways... Three deep bows to this wonderful teaching. _/\_

i like the rancho music in the background.

so cuuuute :), love kokyo