Bodhidharma - "The Wake Up Sermon" - First Zen Patriarch - Zen Buddhism

Bodhidharma is considered the founder of Zen Buddhism in China and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. He brought the Buddha's teachings to China from India in 520 AD. While much of his biography may be the stuff of legend and his historicity is still in question, numerous early records speak of him (or someone by the name of Bodhidharma) as a wise and compassionate monk. Whether or not he was ever a living person, the legend of Bodhidharma has made him as real in the Zen tradition as anyone else.
The full text of this teaching can be found here: www.awakenedearth.org/source-...
Translated by Red Pine.
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[@chetdunham3434]

I have studied Buddhism in depth and practiced meditation for many years and always come back to Huang-po and Bodhidarma as the greatest summations for "what-it-is". Your public readings are a great gift to all of us. Thanks so much.

[@awakeenlighten2298]

Right on!

[@user-oy9om9kf3y]

Bodhidharma and Nagarjuna freed me

[@octavioavila6548]

So…. What is it?

[@chetdunham3434]

As said by some artists, if you have to ask what it is, you'll never know. I have had students ask me for answers when there are no answers. For me, the act of breathing, the practice of breath meditation is everything. I have found that letting go of conditioned mental constructs is pleasant. Even letting go of Buddhism. That's what Huang-po is all about. @@octavioavila6548

[@chetdunham3434]

@@octavioavila6548 Ultimately, it is what it is. Thinking just gets in the way. Buddha mind is not the ordinary mind.

[@austinmoody1751]

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[@Revel136]

So do I

[@austinmoody1751]

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[@SamaneriJayasara]

How many "women" am I? 😀 😆😅

[@Brittle_buddha]

@@SamaneriJayasara all of them 🌟🙏🌼

[@MoMagha]

Yes you are absolutely correct, 2,3,4,5....can’t possibly exist without the one and only “1” 🙏🙏🙏

[@yaksauce]

Outstanding wisdom teaching. Empties the metaphorical trash bin. Thank you for creating this content and sharing freely-

[@awakeenlighten2298]

Outstanding! “When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.” - Huang Po

[@luiscorona2379]

This body is at work, looking at the vast blue sky. Earburds plugged in ears. This soothing voice of Self (Buddha Mind). Pure peace. Pure joy. Pure gratitude...

[@aloknath7492]

To Giveup urself without regret is the greatest charity.

[@petgha68]

For me , you are the voice of a mother’s unconditional love ! It soothes my inner child’s soul when I go to bed with you at night or walk in the forests! Then I realize that I am also that mother ! Can’t express how much that means to me

[@DrOtto-sx7cp]

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[@Wearehealingbeings]

I love this comment! I’d been passing over these beautiful readings for a bit then this morning began listening to this. Everything in my being shifts immediately into a space of love and total acceptance. 🌞🌞💚💚✨🌏🌺🌸

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Indeed! We are not separate Petra. 💜🌼

[@vinceofyork1757]

My mother left me when I was 7 months old so I don't know what a mother is. So I agree with you, only her voice reminds me of mother earth. Brahman speaking.. Very soothing.. I always prefer to hear these texts in a feminine voice, probably because of my past...which doesn't actually exist. 😀 much love.

[@fonoboy]

As someone relatively new to Zen Buddhism - introduced through the Plum Village tradition & Thich Nhat Hahn - this playlist is a fountain of knowledge and an amazing collection of masters. Thank you so much for such a blessing

[@ajantaforeign]

Dear Samaneri, We can't pay off your debt for the precious work you are doing. Love from PUNJAB 🇳🇪

[@maureenmergen1634]

I never heard anyone communicate like this speaker does. I love her pauses. It gives you time to absorb the message. Thanks to Bodhidharma also.

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

Living without the mind is living with intelligence. Thanks Sister Samneriji.

[@tonycrook2955]

Woweeee! The highest Knowledge, expressed by the voice of an angel

[@OmarAhmed-jo1cf]

The Bodhidharma sermons are probably the most insightful and beautiful of all pointing .

[@paulstoran7183]

Namaste thankyou thankyou thankyou infinite love light blessings to all

[@springmorning7177]

you know whats up, i bow to you , the way you talk shows u got it!

[@MrYarabandi]

This is so precious. May the cosmos bless you.

[@JimmyLovesMundo]

Wow!!! I was just thinking of Bodhidharma this morning and how I was hoping you would read from this. I am so happy with my 5G micro chip implant via the vaccination LOL! I can even order on Amazon without even typing anything because it already knows what I want 😊 and my phone reception is phenomenal, too!

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[@baabbylon]

Funny 😆 not funny 🥴 lol

[@nishantbhaskar7685]

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[@harjotmahal8985]

Great sense of humor

[@MonkLife]

These offerings are such a gift 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@parth6115]

Emptiness of Buddhism is negative term ?

[@felice9907]

@@parth6115 not at all! emptiness is just the formless side of fullness ... .

[@geoffwalker5884]

So grateful for all the wonderful sharing of so many sacred texts that open the heart and point to Truth . You truly are light . Nothing but love and gratitude 🙏🙏

[@ayushpratap8837]

"Mortal Mind disappears, Buddhahood appears." 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@ai172]

Oh the serendipity! Thank you Samaneri Jayasara🤗🌸

[@josef2012]

🙏💗 Om Mani Padme Hum 💗🙏

[@DrOtto-sx7cp]

Thanks Sis ! ( ... strange to know that these are more available to 'us', then in current day China.) 🙏🌹

[@richstureman4229]

🙏💙🌈🌎always deepest thanks

[@Yash42189]

I feel like this is such an advanced teaching that only those at the brink of enlightenment can penetrate it and then become free. I think i will come back here at a later point

[@gregorylent]

paradoxes, beginning to end :-)

[@DeA2875]

You have a platinum voice.

[@bigcheech1937]

Bodhidharma spitting 👏🏾

[@caseyhymas6803]

18:59 “If you understand anything, you do not understand. Only when you understand nothing is it True understanding.” 😊😄 - Some say, “To know that you know nothing is the beginning of Wisdom.” My society must be filled with fools (know-it-all’s). Yet everyone is ignorant, only in different subjects (most people do not know/see their own ignorance). Not knowing your own Ignorance is a great evil. ❤️😘👍🏻

[@ACG721]

A true gift to humanity…

[@andrescolasanti]

wonderful... thanks so much!

[@mikkojhs]

🙏🏼 Thank you very much.

[@kennasmith1862]

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[@riverryebluegrass7935]

Thanks!

[@swingtradingpsychology]

The science of paradox,. Beautiful !

[@iliegainaru6082]

Above the clouds of mind !

[@raycosmic9019]

Empty of ego (separateness) = Full of Life.

[@jannie6359]

Thank you Friend. I will listen to this a few times as the words interweave and play tricks. You read this very well. All the Best to You.

[@Yatana108]

Thank You! What an amazing channel!

[@knabbob]

ZAzen * When sitting I just sit - Tears fill all the universe - For all the ones now who are just dying - For all the ones now who are just being born - How painful is all of this - Who is not alone ? Just sitting - * Happy blessings

[@devinramos6317]

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[@Dhammadingleberry]

So precise and clear!

[@dapc777]

~I had a dream once~when awakened there was no one there including the one who was dreaming~

[@jorgetadeu5174]

thank you so much!!!!

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Thank you 🙏

[@matthewmichaud7543]

Pure ❤

[@citizent6999]

Good to hear.

[@amitdahal1698]

Acceptance without any reaction to every dissolving situation also dissolves ignorance and teaches us how to recognize the language of understanding in silence.

[@allpointstoone4346]

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[@UnniG]

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[@shantibahadoersingh3148]

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[@Kevin19HDS]

This is good for everyone but especially for boddhisatvas on the path as review, replenish and nutritious to the spirit.

[@NinjaArts]

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[@daithi48]

Understanding understanding but not understanding not understanding is not understanding Understanding understanding and understanding not understanding is understanding However, it is only when you understand nothing, that it is true understanding. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? Yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Prostrations to the wisdom of Bodhidharma.

[@terrenceburton7903]

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[@danielig100]

Samaneri, please more of Ryokan.

[@hiltont9631]

Endless truth Abandon personhood

[@mousaotri]

Could you do a video on fu hsin (buddha mind)? I would be delighted to hear for you.

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Do you mean Wu Hsin? If so I have already done an entire series which you can find here: kzbin.info/aero/PLWzYrEdlV4O4i8fHqNOwXK9S077EA7TnE

[@marryng9168]

Thanks you again for wisdom of past master from Sameneri jayasara Appreciate pinee

[@Gongchime]

The Ancient One is wise to make Dr. Strange the Sorcerer Supreme.

[@ghuyakalika]

People who reach such understanding...cure all illnesses without treatment Such is the power of great Zen. See this is my question Jayasara. There are many people who say you can heal any disease just by meditation and belief. Ramana maharshi was fully realised but still died from cancer as did some other liberated or enlightened beings. I have cancer and I have gone through various treatments. I know people like Dr Joe Dispenza says cancer can heal just by visualizing and entering that field. I have entered the field so many times. Do you have any thoughts on healing Jayasara? 🌺

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Hi Karine, I offer these words from Longchenpa for your reflection on this question of yours: "In simply arising, forms are by nature empty. From what is unborn there manifests what seems to be born, but even as it manifests, nothing whatsoever has been born. From what is unceasing there manifests what seems to cease, but there is no cessation. These are illusory expressions of emptiness. Even with abiding there is nothing that abides... So within the context that is never subject to transition or change, nothing strays in the slightest from awakened mind." So then....forms appear to come and go - to be born and die - but all is simply illusory appearances within the ground of the unchanging, uncontrived Dharmakaya. What then dies? No Thing. What is there to be concerned with in the Ultimate sense? No Thing Ramana did not die from cancer - this was simply a magical illusion, a name, a concept, appearing in this dreamscape that we call the world and take as real. "Ramana" - for want of a name to denote this manifestation - was not Ramana - his true nature was Deathless and unborn, immovable, timeless, imperturbable, unshakeable peace and reality. Some of his last words were: "They say I am dying... but where could I go? I am Here." Don't forget what or who you truly are Karine.💜

[@ghuyakalika]

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[@sureshgaikwad5004]

It works I am still experiencing. If it works in miner illness it should work in big diseases.

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

I feel Ramna shouldn't want to heal himself.

[@guynouri]

Nature doesn’t leave appearance and is only buddha nature

[@guynouri]

Does An empty boat float?

[@skoogadoo]

yes

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[@HeartOfTheForest]

Black is white, up is down and forward is back, although forward is not back, nor is down up or black white or white black for that matter. For the black is forward and white is up, down becomes forward and slightly to the left. But not true left. More right depending on the gradient of black to down and white to forward.....

[@jessewardmusic]

Where did you get the artwork of Bodhidharma?

[@SamaneriJayasara]

A quick google images search unearthed this

[@HSKPing]

Is this an actual sermon he gave?

[@jacobencalade8943]

the use of the mind is interchangeable. mind is thaught. infinite space is described as mind as well. so you hafto pay attention to the underlying use of words, which come with experiance.there is no such thing as mind.bodhidarma has explained this.try holding the word in attention. then look into it dont use the word to arrive. seek it but dont think, for one second. then evaluate the experiance without using words.and you will see.

[@dr.kenmiller4227]

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[@indigobliss108]

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[@kevinbaylor9566]

Be minefullness, but at the same time unminefullness?

[@chrisphippen6685]

My mind interprets no difference between this and advaita masters a la Nisargadatta. ...This is a delusion and my interpretation is empty of inherent existence.

[@paulstoran7183]

Namaste thankyou thankyou thankyou infinite love light blessings to all