Beginning Zen Training | Part I

[@abesapien9930]

When you are hungry, eat. When you are tired, sleep.

[@Knowledge_house649]

❤

[@user-wc1ft6jv8r]

When ur cold wear a coat when ur hot get in the shaded area when it raining use umbrella

[@condatis6175]

a when u angry tell the fatuous idiot where to go with their platitudes

[@zenoasis8375]

I have gotten better at saying to myself, Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.

[@999NRG]

Zen grew from the experience of Shakyamuni Buddha, who realised awakening in the posture of dhyana ( zazen, Zen meditation) in India in the 5th century BCE. This experience has since been transmitted uninterrupted, from master to disciple, creating the zen lineage.

[@METALUNICORNLTD]

Thank you. This will help me on my path.

[@megatumair1691]

Hi. I've been doing medatation several times. And one time i feel sensation in my head. And after the meditation over, my head feel very clear and achieve clarity. Thats my experience.

[@thezengateway8578]

Hi Megat, These experiences do happen from time to time. I'm glad you have experienced clarity from it too. Just to say that the best thing, IMO, is to just keep to the meditation practice and let these things come and go. As you go on the meditation strength will deepen. Good luck!

[@wanglong184]

Thank you very much this was very powerful and I loved your video.

[@manjirichitnis5551]

Zen has travelled from India to China. Zen is what we in India call Dhyan

[@thezengateway8578]

Yes, The Chinese name of the school 'Chan' and Japanese 'Zen' both mean meditation and are translations of the Sanskrit 'dhyana'.

[@SomosLaNuevaEra]

PAZ & AMOR ❤️

[@anonymousprivate116]

Great place for Zen training in the States is with Shoryu Bradley at Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery :)

[@guesswho5790]

Beautiful voice for beautiful words. Thabk you.

[@mikechilds7373]

wonderfully pragmatic talk.

[@son820]

Great job. Thanks

[@andiemacdream]

🙏🙏

[@karolkrska7280]

I like Alan Watts

[@h.d.d.4674]

Thanks bro

[@zenbiscuits2805]

This is excellent. Thank you so much for this. Are you a Buddhist teacher/priest...? What lineage/school do you practice in? I googled The Zen Gateway, but the website appears to be down. What's the status of this organisation/group?

[@thezengateway8578]

Yes, I am connected with a temple in London. We are in the Rinzai Zen lineage. Our founding teacher was called Myokyo-ni. She has a page on wikipedia.

[@MsLoriat]

The talk ends abruptly without a proper conclusion. Is there another video with the end of this talk? The talk is informative and interesting so I am keen to learn how the speaker concludes his talk.

[@squareye]

MsLoriat There is a part two to this talk. If you go to thezengateway.com and follow the link for this talk and you will find the second talk. I might put it up again as a podcast.

[@allensmith7110]

I've tried understanding Zen before. It always seems the teacher is pointing to an answer or enlightment that is right around the corner...but we never get there.Maybe too western in my conditioning. I understand Camus absurdist philosophy more than this melt into the universe view.

[@thezengateway8578]

Hi Allen Yes, I can appreciate that feeling of something just out of reach about Zen. I think it can be off putting for many to have this aspect of Zen pushed too much. Personally I think keeping the focus on the Buddhist message in Zen that it is a practical way that helps us become resilient in the face of our many problems and the importance of being of service to all in our orbit speak more to people.

[@nashairpowell3812]

Is it possible to listen to music while whole heartedly doing an activity? Or does this only split consciousness

[@justDave3453]

How can you wholeheartedly do something when you are listening to music? Surely then you would be half-heartedly doing two things?

[@nashairpowell3812]

@J M thank you for your reply!

[@thezengateway8578]

Our consciousness is so used to being distracted it is difficult not to get split consciousness when listening to music and, say, doing the ironing. Try it out for yourself. However, it is not the case that listening to music inevitably causes such a split.

[@mrbatista666]

who is the speaker?

[@Walthur13]

Does it matter?

[@thezengateway8578]

Ronald Duck the speaker is Martin Goodson co-founder of The Zen Gateway

[@clarepover6603]

Thank you for clarification of certain myths re Zen.

[@kanshiketsu1]

A Shinto torii for Zen is a bit like a cross for Judaism.

[@Dieselyorks]

Eyes horizontal, nose vertical

[@kanshiketsu1]

Hot lead rips through flesh

[@kanshiketsu1]

Tat tvam asi satchitananda WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

[@chach2611]

"1984"

[@chach2611]

"Torture for Torture's sake"

[@bigbookcafe9281]

The Tao that can be described is not the Tao.

[@999NRG]

you are wrong, buddhism was developed in India...mahayana is a sanskrit term...🕉

[@keithjacobsen600]

need some help on this Brother

[@METALUNICORNLTD]

What do you need?

[@kenaland6537]

Second listening....powerful...where can I study in Los Angeles?🔮xo

[@melvayaredaguilar]

why isn’t all the information in the world automatically available in our brain?

[@andiemacdream]

It is there, in your heart and soul.Mahayana buddhism= the great vehicle.Remember yourself as a child: Who am I ? For example: I was a real curios, creative child. Circumstances did not " allow" me to live it. Now, 50 years later, I am into music, writing poems and ... I AM, I AM LIVING IN THIS MOMENT ❤😊💙🙏

[@thezengateway8578]

Buddhism sees the mind as a sense organ like the ear or eye. It perceives mental objects. Knowledge is made up of mental objects and those objects have to be created before they can be perceived.

[@yoya4766]

This is taking one aspect and over exaggerating it, in a simplistic, illogical and annilistic way.

[@abesapien9930]

Zen discards rational forms of thought and is deliberately illogical. One of the most famous koans was, "What is the sound of one hand clapping in the wind?"

[@yoya4766]

@@abesapien9930 Illogical is still thought. Zen is supposed to discard thought entirely. In any event I was probably referring to how this video was presented.

[@grampram5589]

@@yoya4766 no

[@allensmith7110]

I've tried understanding Zen before. It always seems the teacher is pointing to an answer or enlightment that is right around the corner...but we never get there.Maybe too western in my conditioning. I understand Camus absurdist philosophy more than this melt into the universe view.

[@thezengateway8578]

That's a fair comment. If we read the Zen stories around 'awakening', then it does sound like a one-off event. but, for example Master Hakuin recorded 'countless' little awakenings and several major ones too. So size isn't everything! Many people experience a more gradual unfolding of Wisdom.