Dogen's Zazen Instructions

[@EvanBerry.]

First, congratulations on your upcoming wedding! Second, my favorite moment of this entire video is the following exchange at 14:51 -- "Ziggy, I don't know what you want. Hold on, let me finish reading this, okay?" "Woof!"

[@HardcoreZen]

Yeah. I thought that was funny too.

[@athenassigil5820]

I'm watching this 2 years in the future! Wow, what a time to be alive and I ain't even Dogen!

[@elederiruzkin8835]

I'd say that what Ziggy wants the most is to interact: communication.

[@reedlibros9636]

Wow Brad ! Congratulations on your Marriage! Blessings!

[@stlev99]

Appreciated Ziggy's wordless transmission :)

[@vonhairstyle]

Congratulations, Brad! Wish you all the happiness!

[@SethReee]

Congrats Brad, hope your wedding goes well!

[@patweb]

I was always told to wish the groom “Congratulations!” and the bride “Good luck!” Lol. So congrats to you and good luck to your fiancée!

[@AndrewYouTubehandle]

Clear, interesting and helpful. Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@mobsteru]

Congratulations! May you guys be happy, healthy and free of suffering!

[@tobiwronkaqaswedfvcx]

Congratulations! And I am so happy you added the thing with Ziggy at the end. And don't waste too much time watching reruns of The Flintstones!

[@benhorner8430]

The helicopters must be patrolling for those UFOs that are always flying around your neighborhood! Congratulations on getting married! :)

[@ernest7476]

Congratulations, Brad :)

[@DynamicGoatSlayer]

First comes love, then comes marriage... All the best to you & your bride, Brad! 💏

[@canseeme1982]

Congratulations Brad!

[@carlwalsh2068]

I'm not saying Zazen is a completely physical action. But it's a completely physical action.

[@beebobalula]

In the background there's a lovely bird, which several times salutes Dogen's and your words with a twit-twit 🐦

[@garybeardsley9005]

Congratulations from the UK!

[@Rocky-pc1bj]

Something I heard recently was to "make yourself like a tripod" by making sure you keep the knees apart like the bottom of a triangle and beneath your hips. Never heard that tip before but makes sense.

[@stevenvaleriojr1177]

DUDE!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[@patriciogarcia5611]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

[@joelcoston600]

Congratulations Brad!!

[@bonfire302]

congratulations :) wishing you well

[@peterparker1108]

Many blessings master brad 🙏🧎‍♂️

[@joeg3950]

Congratulations and enjoy Vegas!

[@t.c.bramblett617]

CONGRATULATIONS BRAD! I wish all the happiness and contentedness that the Bodhisattvas can stand to give up for you and yours ;) (I'll twist their arm and get you a little more than average)

[@filipemonteiro1023]

June 26 is my birthday!! Congrats! i love your work 😃❤ thank you😁🙏

[@oOAngeloAmorimOo]

congrats brad!

[@JP-lj2lq]

Congrats sir!!

[@danielpack6109]

Congratulations Brad. Would love a Vegas/Zen-themed video…

[@HardcoreZen]

Oh gosh.

[@bigd4157]

Congratulations Sensei, many happy years.

[@Tsotha]

Congratulations on the wedding Brad! Interesting that one of the black helicopters haunting UFO contactees flies over you when you're wearing an "ancient aliens" T-shirt, by the way...

[@juanluiscadenasdellanobajo1610]

Interesting that in the Spanish translation from Nishijima text they say "When we arise from sitting"

[@dr.jeffreyzacko-smith324]

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 - and please do the Prajna video!

[@henzender9275]

I never thought about how gross seminal sounds, but you’re absolutely right

[@WoodsyLadyM]

Congrats, Brad!

[@doriuniverse]

I can’t believe you’re in Vegas today, that’s where I live, I want to stalk you haha. If you haven’t been, check out the newly revamped Pinball Museum Hall of Fame. Worth it for the KISS and Star Trek machines alone! Oh and congrats on the upcoming nuptials 🖖🏼

[@bastianbarrera4897]

3 years in the future here

[@michaelg6608]

Congrats! Have an awesome wedding and marriage!

[@TheWrongCar84]

Woohoo! Congratulations!

[@chadkline4268]

BD.1.36 “Is it true, Sudinna, that you had sexual intercourse with your former wife?” “It is true, Master.” MS.70 The Buddha, the Master, rebuked him: “Foolish man, it is not suitable it is not becoming, it is not proper, it is unworthy of a recluse, it is not allowable, it is not to be done. How could you go forth in such a well-proclaimed Dhamma and training and not be able for life to practice the perfectly complete and pure spiritual life? Have I not taught the Dhamma in many ways for the sake of dispassion … When the Dhamma has been taught by me for the sake of dispassion, how can you be intent upon passion? … Have I not in many ways declared the abandoning of sense pleasures … the stilling of the fever of sense pleasures? It would be better, foolish man, for your male organ to enter the mouth of a terrible and poisonous snake than to enter a woman. It would be better for your male organ to enter the mouth of a black snake than to enter a woman. It would be better for your male organ to enter a charcoal pit, burning, ablaze, afire, than to enter a woman. Why is that? Because for that reason you might die or experience deadly suffering, but you would not on that account, at the breaking up of the body after death, be reborn in the plane of misery, a bad destination, the abyss, hell. But for this reason, at the breaking up of the body after death, you might be reborn in the plane of misery, Vin.3.21 a bad destination, the abyss, hell. Foolish man, you have practised what is contrary to the true Dhamma, the common BD.1.37 practice, the low practice, the coarse practice, that which ends with a wash, that which is done in private, that which is done wherever there are couples. You are the forerunner, the first performer of many unwholesome things. It will not give rise to confidence in those without it, nor increase the confidence of those who have it, but it will hinder confidence in those without it and it will cause some with confidence to change their minds.” MS.71 Then the Master, having rebuked Venerable Sudinna in various ways, spoke in dispraise of being difficult to support and maintain, in dispraise of great desires, lack of contentment, socialising and laziness, but he spoke in praise in various ways of being easy to support and maintain, of desiring little, contentment, self-effacement, ascetic practices, serenity, decrease of defilements, and of the putting forth of energy. Having given a Dhamma talk on what was right and seemly, he addressed the monks: “On account of this, monks, I will lay down a training rule for the monks for the following ten reasons: for the well-being of the Sangha, for the comfort of the Sangha, for the restraint of recalcitrant people, for the ease BD.1.38 of well-behaved monks, for the restraint of corruptions that pertain to the present life and for warding off corruptions that pertain to future lives, to give rise to confidence in those without it and to increase the confidence of those who have it, for the continuation of the true Dhamma and for supporting the training. And, monks, this training rule should be recited thus: First preliminary ruling MS.72 If a monk has sexual intercourse, he is expelled and not in communion.”

[@krishnapartha]

Or maybe we 0:31 are watching from the past! ❤

[@scotthoward1161]

Congrats!

[@morrigan236]

Is Zen meditation like mindfulness meditation in the sense that you are supposed to try and notice what you do, in fact, notice? Like, you try and notice what you notice, then you will inevitably drift away with your thoughts and upon noticing this, you come back to try and notice what you notice? (If that makes sense now.) Or are you just supposed to sit and do nothing, try nothing?

[@marymidkiff7846]

Blessings on your upcoming Divine union 📿🤵👰💐🐞🥂💒 safe travels 🙏❤️

[@wbabdij]

many blessings for your marriage

[@revdrjon]

All the Best!

[@End-jooga-Ura]

cult travel to future when we came back to **back from the future

[@saralawlor780]

Congratulations and blessings Brad. Hope you will share 💒 pics.🙏🏽 Hope you can go somewhere nice to celebrate. Could you explain the bit about people dying doing zazen? I had always taken it to mean dropping off body and mind but not actually passing away. I wonder if Ziggy is barking at alien 👽 beings we humans can’t see!

[@Tsotha]

perhaps he is barking at one of those Ultra-Terrestrials whom John Keel wrote about...

[@gunterappoldt3037]

@@Tsotha, there are some anecdotes around the topic of "dead Nirwana" and "vital Nirwana" (to use the terminology of Sekida Katsuki) in the Zen-literature---which, by the way, i.m.o., contains much more than just a bunch of "unsolvable riddles", as one interpretative meme, which seems over reductive to me, would have it. One anecdote comes spontaneously to my mind from, if I remember right, the "Records from the Emerald Green Cliff" (hp.: Bìyánlù, jap.: Hekiganroku). It presents a "dharma-battle" around the topic of (paraphrased): Who is the best meditator, and who is (because of this) the most enlightened one, in the talking round? One boasts: "I´m so accomplished in meditation that I can enter samadhi and pass away immediately". So he does. Another remarks: "Yes, really amazing, but, regrettably, he still has not grasped the true meaning of enlightenment!" So much for some hermeneutics. Thanks for sharing.

[@jonkomatsu8192]

Congratulations! 👏 With any luck there's an ET Chapel with a George Tsakalos impersonator to do the ceremony for you folks. If not, well, an Elvis impersonator will do just dandy. And hoping a quick jaunt to Area 51 too! 👽🛸 So safe travels. All my best to you and the future Mrs. See ya! 🤙💒

[@DavidFerguson62]

Congratulations!!!

[@mipabass]

Congratulations

[@pajamawilliams9847]

I keep expecting 80s action movie style machine gun fire sound effects Edit: also I'm starting to pay more attention to Brad's interactions with Ziggy more. Is it crazy to think he's trying to teach something?

[@angelikah.305]

Congratulations!

[@exponentialera]

Do you have a list of books you’ve talked about on your channel?

[@HardcoreZen]

No. But I have a thing on my blog's FAQ section (my blog is hardcorezen.info) of "recommended books." I haven't updated it it for a while. But most of the books I've talked about on this channel are on that list. hardcorezen.info/zen-books-that-dont-suck-2

[@CubanCubeFan]

congrats, dude

[@JordanREALLYreallyOK]

Wow! Congrats!

[@benjaminpepin2247]

Please make a whole video on parjna 🙌🙌🙌

[@HardcoreZen]

Hmmmmm...

[@ceruleandusk]

Can monastics in the Soto zen tradition get married?

[@HardcoreZen]

Yes. During the Meiji Restoration (circa 1868) the rule of celibacy was dropped by the Japanese Soto-shu. Monks were not only allowed to marry, it turned into almost a requirement. This is a very complicated topic. As far as I know there is no Soto Zen tradition other than the Japanese one (and its offshoots in the West). There once was a Chinese Soto Zen tradition, but I don't think it exists anymore (I'm speaking of the SOTO Zen tradition specifically and not Zen/Chan Buddhism in general). Buddhist monks in other countries are generally still required to be celibate.

[@ossy43]

Congratulations!! Marriage in Las Vegas!!

[@fartaignelives6889]

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

[@nkbguy2193]

I think ziggy is giving you his opinion on what your reading...🙂

[@tonydyer2919]

Your donation link is not working.

[@HardcoreZen]

When did you last look? It's working for me now. I did some updates yesterday because there seemed to be a problem with it. i thought I'd fixed it.

[@tonydyer2919]

It's the paypal link on this page!

[@HardcoreZen]

@@tonydyer2919 It works for me!

[@TyphonTheos]

No effing way

[@ronmcbee4743]

I’m getting divorced on 25 June. Good luck.

[@jakuho4984]

Mazel tov!

[@lamajigmeg]

mazel tov

[@End-jooga-Ura]

400 vegas

[@jorgbruker8857]

Good luck for your marriage! Will you nevertheless come to Europe in September or will you be on your honeymoon instead?

[@danielpinojr.8312]

Mazel Tov

[@thoughtfog]

:)

[@Darkgod777]

Congratulations!

[@papayamangerry8843]

Congrats!

[@lotharmader8837]

Congratulations!

[@sterlingpratt5802]

Congratulations!