The Fruits of Zen Practice

Ruben Habito describes the fruits of Zen practice. This video was made possible by the donors of the MKZC Publication Fund and the support of the MKZC community.
Producer: Helen Cortes
Director: Ramtin Nikzad
Assistant Director: Florian Habito
Practitioners:
Evan Carpenter
Helen Cortes
Florian Habito
Kristin Julian
Minoru Koi
Chris Runk
Sheila Walker

[@GotThaPeng]

I recommend watching this - Zen - Introduction to zen practice / full version - Taigen Shodo Harada Roshi If you are replacing a thought, with a thought of gratitude, you are not living in the present moment, you are still up in your mind too much, simply live in the present moment, study the noble eightfold path, the four noble truths, dependent arising, three marks of existence, any thoughts that crop up simply need be recognized and dropped, bringing concentration back to the present.

[@purplesun3792]

This is true, but we should still be grateful

[@JeffMinde]

This is a very fine video which sticks to the central point of Zen, without bells and gongs and incense, without robes, and without unnecessary flourishes. In short, Zen.

[@ObakuZenCenter]

Oh dear.

[@mindrolling24]

The observation of Dogen- that the mind is the mountains, the oceans, the stars and so on- is a recurring truth and source of inspiration for me. I've been fortunate enough to experience the deep knowing of this and it is a wonderful realisation that results in a great feeling of contentment and unbounded joy.

[@mindrolling24]

+Kalil Sarraff You will probably like this quote from Allan Watts then: "You are an aperture through which the universe is looking and exploring itself....through your eyes, the universe is perceiving itself". This blew my mind and now I meditate on it every day! :)

[@mindrolling24]

+Kalil Sarraff You're most welcome :)

[@jackreads]

This is an amazing video thanks for making it. Really incredible and inspiring summary of zen and the nature of the universe

[@gabrielgouveia554]

This video is underrated...

[@learnerlearns]

This is a concise and cogent lecture punctuated by beautifully relevant images that one global banker does not understand in his desire to own & dominate everything.

[@leighmcdowell]

Beautiful film. Well made. The content shines through in a way close to everyday reality. And underneath it all, are the same things said by all those steeped in the spiritual life: compassion, wholeness, opening up the self to love-with the capital L. Beautiful, inspiring film. Thanks for sharing.

[@latronbrown]

Thank you! Very powerful insights.

[@draintesm]

Thank you for the great video. I've sat with Ruben Habito a couple of times on retreats. Hopefully I can go back this year.

[@JayWeik]

Beautiful. Thank you for putting this together!

[@sebastianm8028]

This was beautiful, thank you very much!

[@Tigrimitry]

Magnificent video! Thank you for sharing it!

[@iktomi5]

Awesome👍blessed to listen🙏

[@digitalcommunism]

superb 👌 the essence of zen in less then 10 minutes

[@Longhornzrock96]

had first visit last week. enjoyed every second. plan to attend this weekend

[@thingsofme]

Thank you very much!

[@jamesphillips4184]

This is an excellent video, thank you :)

[@louisdelmar6853]

Most excellent clarification!

[@maiasingersongwriter]

con-ZEN-tration :)

[@ElBrandenBrazil]

A lovely teaching!

[@GotThaPeng]

Zen is awareness of the moment, it is not thinking, a thought has a way of pulling concentration away from the present moment, all things are as they are, all thoughts and feelings are created in the mind, if one shifts concentration to a thought, it is giving power to that thought, like connecting a power source to a appliance, in turn it affects the way you perceive things, simply register the thought and then abandon it, shifting concentration on reality, all things are as they are, peace

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Beautiful!!!

[@emmanuelblake5555]

Awesome video! Wow!!

[@SamEuphoria]

Exquisite video. The third fruit is samadhi.... That's when life becomes RICH

[@honeybadger2801]

🔥

[@MichaelSmith-uf1cp]

I have no words to describe this video...awesome comes to mind, but falls short to describe..be well...

[@rajalaxmitripathy4269]

Beautiful video

[@worthmoremusic]

mind is everything.....everything is mind _/\_

[@mujaku]

In the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch Hui-neng - let's call it the Bible of traditional Zen - there is no mention at all of "awakening to the dynamic reality of each present moment." Hui-neng said:" To attain supreme enlightenment, one must be able to know spontaneously one's own nature or Essence of Mind, which is neither created nor can it be annihilated."

[@herberteriksen5170]

my mind is blown

[@Patricia-bk1en]

Thanks

[@JoshuaBerrios69]

Great teaching! :DD

[@virenderyadav707]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@charlesdarwin321]

@MrUlutraman it's not to stop thought at all, but to change HOW you think. To get outside of preconceptions and learned patterns of being. To be more aware of what is, and what is not. You mention it, to show people the door, but only they can step through it. The application in everyday life is societal, collectivism, how to work as a unit for the betterment of the individuals within the unit. No man is an island. We do know it by experience, united we stand, divided we fall.

[@benrusher581]

every word sings!

[@GotThaPeng]

like the wind protrudes the chimes and makes them dance and sing, such is zen, do not get lost in the illusion of your minds, life is nothing more than a flowing river, it brings much with the current, good or bad?, it is the mind that makes that assumption, be aware of awareness, focus the mind on the present moment, peace my friends.

[@MrReinhardj]

Beautiful

[@oceanichippie]

@mujaku Being in the "here and now" allows one to look into the own nature. This good man tries to explain that if we focus on future and past, we will get confused and will be led by our desires and thought. Awakening to the moment simply means to stop thinking in terms of future and past, and simply observe everything right here AS IT IS.

[@charlesdarwin321]

@MrUlutraman when you feed a hungry person, hunger is satisfied, when people are hungry I AM dissatisfied, when they are feed, I AM satisfied, that is justice. When you use a blanket to warm someone, your spirit is warmed, justice is fulfilled, goodness is done. As for the mountains and valleys, it's a bit more complex of an explanation, and zen has no real strict rule. Essentially, the way I take it, in deep meditation, there is no ego, so hearing a bird chirping, it's full awareness.

[@yokeboonfong4565]

Good video.

[@AriEl-jr6dk]

❤❤❤⚘⚘⚘

[@josefinabloch]

🙇‍♀️🦋

[@seddik6522]

Amazing video !! I have a question, how does one arrive at a state of No Mind (stop thoughts), what exactly should be done to stop anxiety? Thank you 🙏🙏

[@joakimdernebo8400]

Do zazen on a regularly basis. Use your breath as an anchor. Deepen your samadhi slowly over time. Increase the time you sitting. Do this sincerely and you will experience it.

[@herraverne]

Can someone explain me: If you are supposed to be present all the time, for example when washing dishes, then when are you supposed to be making plans about for example the next day? I mean, we humans need to plan and think about the past and the future to be able to do things, right?

[@budte]

Make plans for the next day, but not when washing dishes.

[@jrgranados6769]

I had the thoughts of being one and being all. I was everyone and everyone was myself. It was during my acid trip. It was scary yet eye opening. If you have any links relating to this concept please comment them for me please. Thanks

[@mojo5093]

that's enlightenment, dude ego dissolution go to actualized.org (youtube channel)

[@mujaku]

@FearThisChannel The transcendent, for example, the dharmakaya, is timeless and by implication devoid of moments. The real goal of Zen is to see pure Mind which is the same as tathata (suchness-substance). Always the great Zen master speak of pure Mind or universal Mind or the unborn Mind or Buddha Mind, and so on. This Mind is both substantial and animative. To awaken to it is bodhicittotpada. One then begins the life of a bodhisattva going up the bhumis.

[@oceanichippie]

@mujaku Well, by awakening to the dynamic reality of each present moment, one is enabled to look into one's own nature, since evertyhing will then be seen as a "part" of you.

[@charlesdarwin321]

@MrUlutraman When they say, we are all one, or interconnected, you have to understand what that means. Physically speaking, every atom in my body, is having an effect on every atom in your body, right now, that's just laws of physics. But the thing with zazen is, eventually, you attain nonduality, you see clearly, when everyone sees clearly, they will know they they are essentially one and same. Ego is what separates, when others are as important as the self, we are one.

[@madskillzpc]

Mr. Wilkes sent me here!

[@davereid-daly2205]

Centering in Zen training is not a philosophical idea or concept. Its origin lies in martial arts and refers to the dynamic orientation of the center of gravity within the human body. When a person has conflicting mental attitudes these will affect the tonal quality of the body, which by virtue of its relationship, will effect how softly the body sits itself on the floor. In Zen this is referred to as "Rest." Meditation, in this context, challenges the individual to find the place within him or herself where this state of "Rest" occurs. This is what gives Zen its peculiar characteristics and separates it out from other approaches of meditation. Finding rest within the body is more than just biomechanical as it requires deep experiential training that awakens separate identifiable pathways that connect our outer physical and emotional experiences with our physiology. To access these pathways requires a very specific non-verbal, non-cognitive approach. This is why teaching Zen is so difficult because the student is required to access these pathways by feeling the sensory motion as it pulses through each network. This is the basis of awakening and why you can't pretend that it's happening because its physiological before our mental states catch up. In Zen there are 16 physiological sequential mile stones which we look for that will tell us how far along the path a novice has come and what still lies ahead. For the novice or enquirer its frustrating because no one will tell them what to look for in any experience or what any experience might mean. All a master will do is bow towards you, with respect, each time your body subconsciously makes a connection......

[@igotbluesdevils]

The universe gives us *unconditional love*? Are you joshing me? How.. what?

[@rr7firefly]

Perhaps you do not see that because of your conditioning. I would think you were brought up in the U.S. or some country with similar values. Zen is not anti-American or anti-anything. But it will require a revolution in your thinking. It is not something you have been programmed to do. Just keep an open mind. You can start by pondering this thought: "See yourself in others. See others in yourself." That is a good beginning.

[@captainhowdy6671]

Talk about talking, but with yourself

[@madskillzpc]

@NejiOisOawesome Michael Chen :]

[@MrUlutraman]

@charlesdarwin321 by getting someone to bust his brain on a question, you are in effect stopping him from thinking (anything else) "You mention it, to show people the door" what for you might be a door for others might be an apple or a rock if only through practice can i understand the "we are all one", talk is useles unity is one thing, oneness is another people have been united for various cause, for a short while, without being "one"

[@mariannac.gonzalez4460]

What about joriki? That's part of concentration and it includes being in the here and now but joriki is more than that, no?

[@ObakuZenCenter]

Joriki is a concomitant as it were of concentration. In a sense there is only here and now. So nothing is outside of that. But also, joriki can be seen as a quality of dynamic energy that is more evident if one has learned to be more centered, less resistant to the present, if one has trained in a discipline such as Zazen in particular. In doing such things, we waste far less energy in our usual monkey mind business. That energy is then more freely available to us and can manifest in how we walk, talk, open a door, in every way.

[@MrUlutraman]

@charlesdarwin321 like i said "its so miniscule it doesnt register, so it is like having no effect" gravitation and neutrinos dont register an effect, they dont matter i understand the philosophical "we are all one" but when you look at it practically, we are not. if i feed a hungry person, i do not satisfy my hunger if i am cold, putting a blanket over another person who is also cold doesnt warm me, i m still cold also the mind isnt the mountains and valleys. come on

[@joaosoares2467]

Gasshô

[@MrUlutraman]

@charlesdarwin321 "every atom in my body, is having an effect on every atom in your body, right now, that's just laws of physics." i dont know what effect you speak of, but even if it does, its so miniscule it doesnt register, so it is like having no effect

[@illuminati10yearsago80]

The effect literally made you write that comment

[@BrigittePatrice4750]

The idea of personality, the idea of me, is just another program on the layers of Indras web. its an illusion to create the idea of division, duality, to oscillate the infinite fractal kaleidoscope of beautiful samsara

[@evilfives555555]

the 3 fruits of zen are mango,pineapple,and coconut

[@charlesdarwin321]

@MrUlutraman But that's just it, that's a misunderstanding of zen, there is no concrete, the problem is trying to apply logical, to a state inherently beyond it. That's the entire point of koans, they don't necessarily seem logical, to jerk you out of the preconceived ways of thinking, to better comprehend what non-duality or no-self is. Essentially "the truth that can be stated, is not the eternal truth" The only way to know zen or buddhism, is through practice, not words.

[@captainhowdy6671]

Have a conversation about talking. Make a speech about verbal communication. Your welcome!

[@charlesdarwin321]

@MrUlutraman It's called gravitation. All because you don't register something, does not mean it isn't having an effect, or isn't there. Neutrinos are currently passing through you as we speak, yet you aren't aware at all. Essentially, zen is merely about expanding your ego, beyond the self, that is why buddhism says, no self. Not because you aren't there, but because a more pure level of awareness is beyond or below the ego. When you sit in meditation, the truth becomes known.

[@jamapoca]

very sorry for you...poor baby...cry,cry...it helps

[@igotbluesdevils]

We are one, why? What does this mean? What does it mean? I have an idea, but I friggin want to know what you mean, by, "we are one". We are one WHAT?

[@lepsze]

There is no one or separate. No I or We. Not being or not-being. No fullness or emptiness. Not even just like that since there is no observer, no experience and relation. Here I should paste some haiku that would just make things even more vague. :)

[@ozgursenturk11-11]

David, I will share my experience with you. I meditated 3 times a day for about an hour each session for a year then one day, I sat too long that my perception of being in a body which is breathing constantly dissolved. So at that moment, there was no body, no body which is breathing or thinking. Then at that exact second light hits my third eye, and there was nothing, I mean NO THING, like as a material existence, as a thing... so there was nothing but only "one thing"... some people call it GOD, some call it universal energy or divine power... but it was it... only thing that was exist in that millisecond was "that".... so when we say " we are ONE" that oneness comes from that one Thing... which is nothing and also everything... so you, me, others whoever reaches that state of being will feel the same thing which proves that there is nothing but ONE. I AM "THAT" I AM❤🙏🏼

[@gra6649]

Life is a dream. When you dream there seems to be many different things, and people in it. But in truth it is just one mind. I had a dream once. In that dream I was sitting at a round table with a bunch of my friends. Someone said "If this is a dream, who's dreaming it"? I remember thinking "Well it's my dream, so I must be dreaming it." Then I remember thinking that if I were to let go of the ownership of the dream then anyone, or anything within the dream could claim the dream, because it was all illuminated by one mind. Seeing ones life like this is to be one. It's like a diamond, there are many facets, but only one diamond. You are not something, but you are not nothing. This is not annihilation, this is inclusion. Or another way of putting it is, the universe happens in your head.

[@MrUlutraman]

@charlesdarwin321 "when they are feed, I AM satisfied" >not with food though, your stomach is still empty "..your spirit is warmed" >that does nothing for my body that is still cold you talk theory and i understand it but when i talk praxis you refuse to even acknowledge the problem with the theory

[@ritamargherita]

mu

[@oceanichippie]

@mujaku Ok, but how was this a response to what I said? Speak in simple language please, we're not at all born English speakers.

[@jeevankumargurung2438]

I don't understand zen buddhism in japan.

[@ozgursenturk11-11]

When you understand it there won't be any zen🙏

[@ObakuZenCenter]

If you're not doing Zen training in Japan, then there is no need for you to understand that.

[@mujaku]

@FearThisChannel There is no simple way to explain Buddhism to puthujjanas.

[@oceanichippie]

@mujaku Time is an illusion. But Mind is everything, such as in Advaita Brahman is everything. "The world is illusion. Brahman alone is real. Brahman is the world." In other words, your words can never describe what Mind is like or what it is devoid of. Being timeless was no more than an indication it was not bound to causality like in this world. On contrary, this world is. Mind is all, and we cannot grasp this. We cannot understand how it can both be with time and timeless.

[@MrUlutraman]

@charlesdarwin321 the main point of koans is to shortcircuit the mind into stoping thought when out of meditation if only zen practicioners can be awakened to the truth of "we are all one" why would they even mention it on so many lectures, talks? isnt that kinda pointless to talk to you about things you cant understand? i think the "we are all one" thing is purely philosophical, no application in everyday life. if it did, people would know it by experience

[@MissLilithLilium]

Mr Ulutraman If people truely understood it, we wouldn't be so unhappy, thirsty and divided in personal pursuit of materialism, financial gain, and power while the collective and individual efforts make reality of things like hunger, wage slavery, war, prejudice, classism, pollution, and severe poverty. Everything is one, but it is like a joke only a few who actually get it can laugh at.

[@MissLilithLilium]

Mr Ulutraman If people truely understood it, we wouldn't be so unhappy, thirsty and divided in personal pursuit of materialism, financial gain, and power while the collective and individual efforts make reality of things like hunger, wage slavery, war, prejudice, classism, pollution, and severe poverty. Everything is one, but it is like a joke only a few who actually get it can laugh at.

[@ObakuZenCenter]

Nope!

[@yoya4766]

This man speaks the stock lines. But his being doesn't convey their transcendental meaning. What he talks of isn't enough to eliminate suffering.

[@ObakuZenCenter]

I feel sorry for you.

[@yoya4766]

@@ObakuZenCenter Sympathy from a blind puppet. haha. Feel sorry for yourself, you need it.

[@joakimdernebo8400]

Are you sure?

[@MrUlutraman]

i call bullshit we are not one, the mind isnt mountains or rivers if a person gets shot in the face, that doesnt happen to me if a mountain is blown apart, or a river drys out, nothing happens to my mind we are not connected, not really

[@captainhowdy6671]

It can happen to you. Pow! Right in the face hole.

[@Ats192]

Very painful just trying to listen to him since this is his second language.