Eiheiji Temple

[@luciesimackova4805]

I would love to have all conversations between people looked like this 😍 So relaxing, open and serene

[@elenaastakhova7718]

I visited this temple. ❤

[@mercifultaxman]

Please new ones, if possible.

[@mercifultaxman]

Thank you. Good topic for learning.

[@mclight6743]

Can somebody send me a message with the name of the TV show !? I really love all this talks they have ! Thank you for posting !

[@hear-and-know]

Trad Japan

[@anonymousprivate116]

In America we have Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery :)

[@mercifultaxman]

Happy New Year. I hope to be in touch with you.

[@zaroffhound]

NHK tv. Google reveals much under that banner. I noticed their logo in the top right hand corner.

[@112jungle]

Alan watts brought me here

[@petergaal6489]

The aim of the practice is not to attain enlightment and to be free from desire and attachment. This is the typical sentence what they say about buddhism and zen practice but it is not the aim.

[@wanderingfool7136]

Indeed.. They don't practice to "become" enlightened.. Practice is enlightenment and enlightenment is practice..

[@morganolfursson2560]

Moving Zazen ?! And you call yourself an interpreter ? It is called Moving Zen 動禅 , the Za in Zazen 座禅 means , sitting. So Moving Zazen means literally, moving sitting zen !

[@afunnyman]

I believe you get the idea, though.

[@wanderingfool7136]

Everything is zazen.. Moving, sitting, sleeping is all zazen.. Zazen is a way of approaching life.. It's used beyond its literal translation quite often in zen thought and discourse..

[@morganolfursson2560]

@@wanderingfool7136 NO. Moving, sitting and sleeping is Zen, but it is not Zazen. Zazen is Zazen.

[@morganolfursson2560]

@Bruce Barrow Getting fired was just part of your karma, accept it and move on.

[@morganolfursson2560]

@Bruce Barrow There are no graces as such in Buddhism, or in Zen Buddhism, but there are mantras and sutras which you can learn and accept if you identify with it. Start with the Lankavatara Sutra, the Vimalakirti Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, and the Lotus Sutra and the Sutra of the heart. The heart Sutra is one of the most popular and you can start thinking about its meaning when meditating "Form is empty, emptiness is form. Emptiness is the essence of unchanging essence. This emptiness is inherent to all phenomena, and not a transcendent reality, but emptiness is also an essence of its own ". Don't expect to come up with an answer after 5 minutes of medication, and finding an answer is less important than trying to understand the Sutra. My favorite is by far the Lankavatara Sutra taugh by Siddhartha, the Buddha himself where he asserts that all the objects of the world, and the names and forms of experience, are merely manifestations of the mind. His teaching is based upon the recognition that the objective world, like a vision, is a manifestation of the mind itself. This Sutra teaches the cessation of ignorance, desire, deed and causality; it teaches the cessation of suffering that arises from those from giving up ignorance, freeing yourself from desire, and accepting causality. Try with that and if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask ! I am not a zen priest or monk. I just studied zen for 3 years at Eiheiji the temple on this video and lived in india where i studied different forms of Buddhism for a while, but i am rather agnostic because of my family heritage (ethnically diverse) and the religion i am the closest to is Jainism. Although i am Icelandic Danish, Norwegian and Greenlandic Inuit on my father's side, on my mother's it is a mix of French, Russian, British, Persian and Kalbelya Gypsy Indian and my mother is 100% Jainist.