THE GATELESS GATE: Compilation of Zen Koans

Narrated by: Peter Coyote
Language: English
Playlists: Zen Koans, Stories, Poems
• Zen Koans, Stories, Poems
The Gateless Gate (The Gateless Barrier), is a collection of 48 Zen koans compiled in the early 13th century by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai. The title has a double meaning and can also be understood as Wumen's Barrier; the compiler's name, which literally means "No Gate", is the same as the title's first two characters. Wumen's preface indicates that the volume was published in 1228. Each koan is accompanied by a commentary and verse by Wumen. A classic edition includes a 49th case composed by Anwan in 1246. Wu-liang Tsung-shou also supplemented the volume with a verse of four stanzas composed in 1230 about the three checkpoints of Zen master Huanglong. These three checkpoints of Huanglong should not be confused with Doushuai's Three Checkpoints found in Case 47.
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[@RocLobo358]

I listened to this before sleep and dreamt I was wandering. I saw a monastery and walked in, bowed, and asked for a teaching. They gave me a book of calligraphy. I said I cannot read it. Then, they asked: "How can one learn if they cannot understand?". I answered: "I don't know". They smiled and said: "Come back tomorrow"

[@alexsmith2269]

Did you go back?

[@RocLobo358]

To the best of my recollection, I did not. I may have. I hope I did

[@nicolarollinson4381]

How can they learn if they have no teacher? Is a similar question. The answers, the way, whatever, is within us all. Mankind has made the mystery and the mystical to keep us on a leash

[@simonsays9399]

@@nicolarollinson4381 ah, but the knowledge is all ripe within us, so they say. I think we are just to quiet the mind and Be.

[@simonsays9399]

@@RocLobo358 i hope you either went back, or meet them again soon :)

[@markskapyak2929]

I have listened to this several times. Each time my general understanding of life becomes a little clearer.

[@johngratta5041]

Ever since I read alan watts, then zen flesh zen bones I've been searching for what I had, once I stopped searching I was done. Now no more bookstores just me and sunshine

[@pedridemperi9872]

That is the greatest. Thankyou

[@Auffinaugh]

As Alan said, "once the conversation is over, put down the phone"

[@drygordspellweaver8761]

Don’t give up John. Keep pursuing the path. It’s not enough to just hop aboard the “I have arrived” train

[@souleycisse4474]

@@drygordspellweaver8761 but one you realize who and what you are what else is there to do where else is there to go at this point the only purpose I can think of moving forward is for pure entertainment

[@drygordspellweaver8761]

@@souleycisse4474 if you delude yourself into thinking you have arrived, then surely there is work to be done. Humble yourself, stop pretending, and be serious with the path.

[@moniquedee5961]

Peter Coyote is the best narrator for these recordings. ❤

[@meditationrelaxingmusic4k]

I wasn’t planning on writing this but reading some of the comments made we want to do this. I am letting the universe take all the negative energy around me and replace it with positive energy. If you are reading this I wish the same for you

[@dexterj5615]

Still stuck on the duality of good and bad throw your thoughts away

[@Tabrizi12__0]

​@dexterj5615 it is impossible to force what is to be, thoughts are as much a part of your universe as your body, existing for a purpose. Whether known or unknown its purpose is pure and absolute in conception. the concept of acceptance implies a return to that which we already are, do not fight it will conquer you

[@dexterj5615]

​@captinkraze2922 shunryu Suzuki had a good quote about this idea.. I'm paraphrasing but it's let your thoughts come and go, good or bad. Just don't invite them in for tea.

[@octavioavila6548]

I am taking all the positive energy you have generated and replacing it with negative energy. Your turn

[@B49337]

@@octavioavila6548 there is no positive or negative energy just energy.

[@GordaoSemFuturo]

I like sweets and i cant help but listen to koans and people like Alan Watts, Osho and sometimes Jiddu Krishnamurti. I might not be enlightened or never come close to it, but i like to listen them teachings very much! Thank you for the video!

[@onelovemon1784]

Same for me😂

[@onelovemon1784]

I just ate chocolate and read your comment 😊

[@pedridemperi9872]

Now you are enlightened

[@FuegoJaguar]

I think it sinks in over time. Changes your brain whether you consciously understand in the moment or not. Eventually you will understand.

[@42BETWO]

I don’t understand but it tastes good.

[@__Hamlet__]

Me at 00:07 : Understandable, have a nice day.

[@vcello6450]

Lololol

[@jessicacarreon9380]

😂

[@jessicacarreon9380]

No for real I'm like wow not even a nice lil treat

[@AX1A]

and if you're woman.. since they didn't exist back then

[@Acumen928]

Ever since I heard "Beginners Mind" I've been looking for this narrator. thank you.

[@audiobuddho]

Welcome!

[@coyfishhh]

Yes, i knew unrecognized this voice.

[@slohmann1572]

He’s name is Peter Coyote.

[@elenakuzmina2637]

try "101 zen" stories by Peter Coyote, my fave audiobook (even if many koans are omitted), the reading is amazing kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2HTZ2lphNlro9E

[@kthulhu4492]

Try "10 bulls", ''101 zen stories''' and the playlist "zen meditation practice'' by Shunryu Suzuki

[@alexsmith2269]

This was a nice detox before having to deal with some major stressors.

[@Leyahlove1111]

Sending you so much positive energy 🙏 you got this 😊 you are powerful and peaceful 🕯️ proud of you

[@fungi42o0]

or during

[@onelovemon1784]

Hope you handled all the stress. peace

[@pedridemperi9872]

I first read 'major scissors' and had microfear for a nano second

[@BuddhaAfterDark]

the question is always the answer

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Thanks

[@w.bridges9118]

Wow, I have just found this channel, my regards to you all from Australia.

[@audiobuddho]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@codedlAnguage]

Good Morning. 💗. 🙏. 💗. Thank You. I just woke up after seeing something really amazing in my sleep and it was so good that it woke me up and I said outloud 'did you see that? '. Anyway so now I am awake and I listen to this for a bit . It rains outside . 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗. 💋. 😍

[@alecsking408]

Another Koan thank you!

[@seed_of_the_woman]

this is quite brilliant

[@MindfulExplorations-op7bg]

*Thank you for the video!*

[@michaelwargo5702]

Soothingly awesome ❤❤❤❤❤

[@nhungtran-uo2ud]

Always come back to you ❤️🙏

[@neuroplexus4700]

I love sweets and easy living but I never skip the next part

[@Censeo]

I heard the introduction and already feel like I have no business listening. And even if I listen carefully, I will gain nothing

[@Bradley_UA]

If you listen carefully, you will gain the time spent in concentration, perhaps then youll realise that there never was any information in the actual words in the first place.

[@seed_of_the_woman]

then you have it, listening carefully already. what have you gained?

[@GnosticElohim]

No one does and no one can, that's not the point.

[@jathas1]

Exactly!

[@xortel4725]

I fell asleep listening to this, and woke up tired.

[@father_mihai]

I think I got it But funny this is that as soon as I started typing this and talking about it, I lost it I think it’s pretty simple. It’s about seeing life without the filter of cognition and abstraction on top of it But of course, as soon as you start putting it into words, the concept becomes a cognitive abstraction It’s not really about attaining anything. It’s about getting the thinking mind to shut up, and stop trying to put life into boxes But just reading this won’t do you any good, because you’ll take this information and treat it as an abstract concept

[@MrThebradon2001]

And the mind is always compulsively cognizing and creating abstractions, it is how it understands anything at all

[@pedridemperi9872]

You had the courage to give up enlightenment to teach, to risk all to win all...that is zen

[@Bradley_UA]

When one try to put the unspeakable, into words, one's gonna make oneself sound like a fool. Which is why im sorta impressed these zen masters can write entire boks on it and lecture and still seem to be okay, even kinda wise, lmao

[@octavioavila6548]

I don’t get it at all my friend but the koans are fun and that’s all that matters to me. Here is a koan: Why did the chicken cross the road? Quack-quack

[@jayelauder-my4gp]

The closer you are to truth, the less you can express it with words. Words are by their very nature limiting. At any moment, everything is both good and bad. Words artificially limit the world into yes or no, good or bad. We need a new language. Then we’d all be zen already as this wouldn’t be a mystery but obvious.

[@April-t6z]

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt" -Abe

[@Suicynic]

Thought that was Twain.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

@@Suicynic It’s all just 1 thing talking to itself anyway. 🎉

[@Yakuo]

Thank you for these teachings.

[@audiobuddho]

Glad you like them!

[@johneagle932]

This only tells about the subtle nuances of life we see everyday and seek to or rather feel compelled to offer an explanation but the meaning is lost the moment we do so or becomes more complicated in the explanation. And we know To remain silent is a crime on love and to explain is crime on the senses. What does one do? You are detested if you don't teach it...yet if you do you confuse it. Ahhhh this life!! Yet without this very element understanding would be impossible to so many different personalities nor would the one truth be discernable in the so many different experiences of life. It more possible for the teacher to tell a student what the truth is NOT than what it IS. This knowledge is personal/experiential.

[@MyUserNameUK]

Hi John, very insightful and well written. I was thinking something very similar myself. With the same conclusion, we must walk the path ourselves and others can't tell us the answers only provide some guidance.

[@hansburch3700]

Nur ein Meister kann Irrwege anpreisen und Fallstricke auslegen, alle anderen sind unwichtig.

[@jcchrism]

🧘‍♂️THE TECHNIQUE👁️ The goal of this technique is to activate your Pineal and Pituitary Glands/ Third Eye. Begin by laying down in a safe place. Do a basic meditation to relax your body and clear your mind. Once you are relaxed, you are going to start squeezing and expanding your brain. Your brain is attached to muscles and tendons that let you expand and squeeze it. Bring your focus to your forehead and try squeezing and expanding your frontal lobe. Concentrate and keep trying until you can get it. Once you can feel it moving then move to the center of your brain, (this is where the glands are located, the Eye of RA) and do the same thing. Squeeze then stretch it out, feel it expand as if past your skull, squeeze, expand... After a few minutes move to the back of your brain where the Claustrum is located. This is where the Sacred Oil is produced. Do the same, squeeze, expand over and over. Once you get the hang of it, start doing it in a wave motion from the front to the back. Continue squeezing and expanding repeatedly until you can start to feel the fluids moving, such as mucus running down the back of your throat. Some people, myself included, experience something that sounds and feels like a crust breaking off the outside of your brain, this is normal. The objective is to get your brain working, you have never used it like this before. Once you get the fluids moving you want to push the Oil from the Claustrum in the back of the brain down the back of the spine, down your nervous system and back up the front. Using your back muscles, push the fluid down the back of your spine to the bottom. Squeezing your muscles in your lower area like your buttocks and sphincter. Then start pushing the fluid up the front of your spine. Men as well as women have kegel muscles, use these like a pump. Using your stomach and your chest muscles, continue pushing the fluid up the front of your spine into your brain, pumping the fluid up the front of the nervous system into the Pineal and Pituitary Glands, the Promised Land of Milk and Honey. Continue repeating this pattern, from the front of your brain to the back of your brain, down the back of your spine to the bottom, and up the front of your spine into your brain. Repeat this process as long as you can. When I did this I was not staring at a clock but it felt like an hour. Realistically I would say 15 to 30 minutes. I did it until all of a sudden I couldn't close my eyes! Not even to blink. This lasted for several minutes. At first I thought I broke my brain! As soon as I was able to relax enough to barely close my eyes, I slipped... Some things to note: 1. I know to a lot of people this sounds weird, (like it's not already weird) but you need to make sure that the Moon is in your Sun Star sign. The Moon affects the fluids in your body and helps the Oil be created. 2. The ancient gnostic text talk about sexual abstinence in order to get this to work. I refrained from having sex for two weeks before I did this. 3. Make sure you are in a good place in your head and that you have pure thoughts. Because if you don't, you won't go all the way to the end and meet the Light. 4. If this does not work the first time, try decalcifying your brain for six months and then come back and try again. I put in a reverse osmosis machine under my kitchen sink for $150.00 and I quit using fluoride toothpaste. Fluoride calcifies the pineal gland, which is what we are trying to activate. 5. This last one is a WARNING. Working on yourself is PARAMOUNT beforehand so that you have the best positive experience you can. Also, you need those skills for afterwards. I was super high for about 2 weeks and then I became insanely negative. It took a lot of hard work to crawl out of that hole and then maintain the connection, so you need to be prepared for that mentally. SUICIDE HAS OCCURRED IN THE UNPREPARED. THIS IS LIFE CHANGING. Make sure you have some good meditation techniques. Maybe have a friend handy to lean on a little. In my experience I was granted one wish, I wanted to be emotionally healed from the damage caused by being an innocent man on death row. I was also gifted with a vision. The Chrystal Light Being touched my heart in order to heal it so that I could love my family properly, and it showed me that everyone on Earth has this Light Being inside of them. Everyone will have their own experience. This is how to have a true Kundalini Awakening, but it's also called the Anointing of the Christ/Chrism Oil, the return of Christ is the return of this knowledge to you. This is what it means to have Christ in you inorder to enter Heaven, it's something you do while you are alive. Good luck my friend. I love you❤️ JC🌟

[@cobalius]

This is the wackiest thing i've ever read through.. and i've lived together with drifting shizo's and conspirateurs for years, man, you should really stop squeezin' your brain

[@chopwoodcarrywater3626]

y do you work so hard when this is natural? you are following a strange teacher.

[@legendoctane5732]

Thanks

[@josef2012]

Seems irresponsible to partially detail what you say is a hazardous and dangerous practice to complete newbies who could potentially harm themselves.This sounds like it needs a guide or legit instructor, not some comment off of KZbin.

[@prankzonpoint5536]

This was hilarious 😂 A dunce was searching for a fire with a lit lantern if he knew what fire was he would of cooked his rice sooner 😂😂😂 funniest words of all time

[@sidneydavis8899]

How did he lite the lantern

[@randolphholmes7324]

Pppppp mlt

[@wizardmanaia4664]

@@sidneydavis8899 the joke is we are already enlightened you fool.

[@michaelmcclure3383]

Even funnier when you realise he's you

[@GabeLeonardArt]

Once I drove around my neighborhood looking for my keys 😂

[@cli260]

Jokes on you, I like sweets and easy living but I'll continue to listen🤟

[@kayakMike1000]

Satori experience is possible. I had a taste if enlightenment twice in my life, but I could keep it. As quickly as the deep insight appeared in my mind, it left. It was an understanding that could not be conveyed in words. Trying to find the right words to describe the idea is what made me loose it. The first time I had read something about non-self. I was daydreaming about what it meant whilst driving my car across town as one does from time to time. My mind wandered far and wide and completely on something else. Something about this made me think this might be what non-self meant.

[@seed_of_the_woman]

did you return?

[@Quimper111]

Content begins åt 6:38

[@danielharris4965]

Thank you.

[@okotpbitek1244]

Thank you very much

[@serijas737]

Content begins at 0:00

[@aborigine3716]

Content begins at 1:02:13.

[@suninmoon4601]

When two Zen masters meet they need no introduction. Thieves recognise each other instantly. Two travelling monks arrive at a river crossing and discuss animatedly best ways to pass. Nearby, a woman is sobbing. When asked she explains that the river is too strong and too deep for her to cross. Whereupon, the bolder monk scoops her up upon his shoulders and wades through the water. After taking their leave from the now grateful woman, the two monks resume their journey under a strained and embarrassed silence. "Is something wrong?" asks the bold monk. "You seem to have forgotten your vow never to touch a woman!" he chides. "Ah," replies the bolder monk "I picked up the woman on the other shore and put her down again on this shore; yet you, brother, are still carrying her!"

[@raginald7mars408]

YES!!!!!!!

[@radfan7020]

thieves isn't the correct word. frauds

[@yousuck5314]

Lmao

[@honeybadger2801]

🔥

[@ZenInsights-vp8nb]

Thank you for this video ❤....I appreciate your efforts.

[@williamcarter7977]

Zen is an interesting ideology. Each persons understands a koan in their own way. Wasting your life by merely sensing??? No "right" answers. No "objective" answers. The function of Koans is to promote meditation, reflection. There is no one answer to "what is mooo". It is what you " imagine " it to be at any point in time and may change at a different point in time.

[@ryhanhiggins9115]

Zen is not an ideology. Its a practice of exeriencing the here and now

[@williamcarter7977]

@@ryhanhiggins9115 Zen a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

[@waleolapo]

This book is amazing

[@nicholasdoub3337]

This spoke so deeply to me 29:10

[@end.olives]

Freedom

[@jinkyjoyacain6800]

My Ministry and Father Thich Nhat Hanh Pleased Pray for all the People's using their skills, getting energy, giving a Bad Luck to the Gateless Gate and giving a Death Rat in our Body for the Wealth of Hong Kong Businessman and to the Philippines Government like PNP Police. Thank you very much for always helping me and teaching me. I love you very much.

[@ozgursenturk11-11]

Last night I was meditating and a koan came to my mind which was "what was your original face before your parents were born" then I got it!!! And started laughing and crying at the same time🙏❤😍

[@KS-ep1vr]

Please share!

[@ozgursenturk11-11]

@@KS-ep1vr I don't think this "feeling/realization" can be given away by words but I will try. It's like putting down all the labels you and others gave to you and your mind though that it was what you are, suddenly collapsed. What's left after was an eternal being aware of his existence without body/mind. So "I" was never born and will never die and I was ONE with the Universe. Actually I and the Universe were not separated thing it was me. So my orginal face is "eternal conciousness" with no face and with all the faces...sat chit ananda🙏❤

[@michaelbeede8436]

@@ozgursenturk11-11 NM TJ opy

[@SkyScannerBtown]

a lot of drilled faces out here yes

[@ozgursenturk11-11]

@@SkyScannerBtown drilled face?

[@eastwisdom]

Thanks

[@lbarreto3069]

starts at 9:32

[@fungdark8270]

No, it starts now silly

[@kundavanriel6142]

It never started

[@codelicious6590]

Regarding the introduction, if it is all without logic and by grace alone, why then would a preference for sweets and easy living then make a difference to any but the author?

[@SunLizard-u3k]

In Order to attain Enlightenment Sacrifice Plays A Major Role through out the whole Process. From where I am right now sugar and meat block and creates blockages inside the body and because of that. It will create delays in and frustration in the Enlightenment Process. Hope this helps

[@seddik6522]

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

[@_creighton]

rest as awareness...

[@oneom8158]

Whoever wakes up, knows it's not the dreamer, whoever awakes, knows no ones left to be awaken or speak of awakening.

[@DrarayneThelas]

This is amazing.

[@davidgreen2379]

Every cycle has some beginning journeys, and some ending journeys. Every cycle has ANOTHER thing in common. Those who see it, And those who dont. Either way, "Being Here" is both the cost of passage, and the weight of crossing. You, having come "HERE", must now endure "EXPERIENCE" without hope of having an escape. This is "HOW" the "NEXT" will come. By getting through the "NOW" Woe to those who enter HERE. I am the THIRD of such things. THIS is the third of such PLACES. If DAVID is BELOVED and GREEN is just a COMMON AREA I ask you to consider the person SPEAKING. I cannot create a lie with what I've said. But I WILL CREATE an AWARENESS of ALREADY EXISTING FRACTURES within our PERSPECTIVES, which is a flaw of SELF. I did not "DO THIS",.... Nor have I worked to stop it. I am very much the "SAME" as You. By this I mean, I live by EXPERIENCE, though filled with doubt, I still hold HOPE. I SEE YOU. I've LEARNED THIS FROM "YOU".

[@vicdex7387]

Brother, O brother of mine, BROTHER OF ALL! I’ve found YOU within ME, and ME within YOU, and WE as ALL, and so on, and on, and on… The WORDS spoken through YOU pierced my SELF, pinning it as an altered-conscious animal. Those WORDS were sweet and gracious dew to this EYE, one more astounding act of the GREAT & ENDLESS existential opera, codified by this MIND into a voice, a SONG OF CREATION... Brother, I could wish YOU a safe JOURNEY... This is now meaningless, though, and so it was ever since I felt YOU as WORDS, as a MESSAGE conveyed across the INFINITY. EXISTENCE is everything it has to BE. So, what’s “safety”, after all? A “need” to determine personal FATE, as if it is isolated from ALL? Surely, YOU are aware of such existential PLACE, and the DELUSION OF CONTROL, happily, do not relate to YOU anymore. About ME? Impossible to describe it, more than being a Disciple of the GREEN Master - and YOU, Brother, awakened SOUL among the sleepwalking crowd, will not find in these WORDS anything but the inner TRUTH of this being. Thanks to the GREEN treasure from the Chüy Valley, this one still stands, vibrating more and more in a way I cannot explain. To thank YOU for your EXISTENCE doesn’t seem enough. To thank YOU for transmitting those WORDS seems even less enough. So, this one can only say: I LOVE YOU! Entangled now WE ARE, and so it shall be, FOREVER.

[@pedridemperi9872]

None is talking when the words are spoken

[@mikenevermon9041]

Incredible indeed..Children understand..I presume I am a Child and seek no council.

[@kengenkuerickson1244]

When thirsty, and encountering a fire hydrant, ask to borrow a wrench first, and open slowly. .

[@kengenkuerickson1244]

Or, just open the damn thing and let 'er rip. There's something to be said for a good soaking. Thanks, Roshi Coyote.

[@fungdark8270]

@@kengenkuerickson1244there is, especially when you’ve got wax and oil crusted all over yourself. Needs a blasting off

[@godofzah]

gateless gate isnt an entrance, its an exit from the mind

[@sabertoothwallaby2937]

An entrance to what has always been

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

_well, truly, the mind IS AT ONCE both internal and external; entrance and exit._ _See non-linear dynamics, with it's feedbacking; and fractal, too._

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

The bird in the cage opens it wings

[@godofzah]

@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 beautifully said ,all this is just words, symbols and symbol only exists in duality, the ultimate truth is

[@pedridemperi9872]

.........deep

[@animeman3392]

Got high and found this, time so well spent💨🧠🐄

[@tuckerbearden01]

Well done

[@brandonterzic]

I have this in text. So nice to have it online

[@Erebus.666.]

Used to have a really old copy, from Tokyo Press, but seem to have let it down years ago. Shame, it was a nice copy, but I guess I believed in "No dependence on words." Foolish me...

[@brandonterzic]

I love old prints of this stuff…

[@lewissmith6086]

When is the yardless yard gonna be written?

[@pedridemperi9872]

One walks in it already but it is not you or anyone else.

[@lewissmith6086]

Tell that to my none existent landlord

[@lewissmith6086]

Now that's the sound of one hand clapping

[@emperorza5777]

I was literally eating carnal popcorn when he first stated and I stopped eating immediately

[@pedridemperi9872]

Lol I laughed hard while on the bathroom throne at 'carnal popcorn '. Thanks

[@fungdark8270]

@@pedridemperi9872I’m not sure it was a typo and I don’t know if I need to find out

[@fuzzyjavi]

The commentless comment.

[@_VISION.]

The cometless comet.

[@jathas1]

Mu

[@hopa-ys2bc]

A Likeless Like

[@StephenCrowley-dx1ej]

What does the seeker see once the sought is seen?

[@jameswoodard2232]

Or....is it tje sound of two hands not clapping?

[@interdimensionalsailboat]

"In a flashing moment something opens, you are new, all through." "Ok, but how does that help me find a girlfriend tho?" 😂

[@interdimensionalsailboat]

"Mu"

[@fuzkforyou]

Become trans

[@josephisraelyehudah3401]

How do you get the goose out of the bottle?

[@curtiseagleeyemullin]

Lol “If you like sweets and easy living, skip this next part…” Instant satori! L O L

[@saltairswings]

Which translation is this? Its excellent.

[@pewrumalnarayanan3477]

Nice to hear

[@Thresholdmoment]

I'm all about sweets and Easy Living. But it's not really easy living it's much harder than you might think. I am lazy and I am in contemplation all of the time. I am learning to focus on self and I am becoming nothing. I smoke cannabis daily and sometimes I drink. I enjoy the pleasures of food and if I had money I would have a woman to fulfill my sexual desires and would eat the most opulent foods and exist in the most opulent surroundings. I used to ask a question, why am I here? What is all this about? I've given that up out of laziness. For me, laziness is an art and I would have so much more if I would just work more but like so many others I'm just not interested in anything anymore other than sense gratification. If I could, I would fulfill all of the pleasures of this body but I also know that I am not this body and if I could I would lose all self-identity if possible.

[@vincent21212]

I relate. I've a keen awareness that the pleasures I indulge in bring me pain when partaken in excess. If I can tolerate the pain, I continue; if I cant, I pause. I don't seek salvation in my pleasures and so I have no guilt in them. They're just passing forms. There is nothing here that is the full meaning or reason.

[@GreenMorningDragonProductions]

Whenever I see a Japanese torii gate I have to suppress the overwhelming urge to go grab a soccer ball ⚽

[@miradoramusic]

It’s the Zen of the Beautiful game.

[@Erebus.666.]

Goal!!!!

[@mukeshdesai2862]

0:07. 1:00. 2:00. 2:50 3:30 4:14 6:15 6:40. 7:45 8:55 9:38 14:58 16:12 17:08. 17:59 19:17 20:46 23:25 27:54. 29:10 29:33 32:15 33:17 34:22 35:26 36:10 39:32 40:33 41:31 42:50 43:56 44:34 45:16 46:24 47:59 48:46 49:58 51:18. 55:19 55:59 57:06 58:26 59:58

[@jamesw8699]

I listened to this and flew into the sky. I cannot return. Throw me a rope, eh?

[@michaelward878]

What a coincidence. I built a gateless gate in my backyard. It looks like a regular privacy fence but has a gateless gate in it.

[@Godwinsname]

And another: your last name is my best friend's first name :)

[@THinleyDhendupTopper]

@@Godwinsname LMAO!

[@michaelward878]

My passageway on the outside of my gateless gate got blocked so now I have a gateless gate that goes nowhere. I just can't win. I still have a gateless gate that goes nowhere so I can live with it . I wonder how many other people have a gateless gate that goes nowhere. 👁

[@Godwinsname]

@@michaelward878 :D

[@BabbaYagga]

Good voice.

[@tz6414]

Not sure about this, seems a lot of oddly connected phrases that really don't mean a lot.Wrapped up in some imaginary path. Still a relaxing voice that sends me to sleep

[@Bradley_UA]

You get it. Its the meditative mood that counts, not any "information" contained in the words. They say it themselves all the time, you cant experes zen/dao/nagual in words, and people still expect it to be expressed in words.

[@monsterrun]

Walls exist by extention of Door's will. Door's exist by extention of locking mechanism will. A key is all that is needed to break the will of the lock making the door existance removed and therefore removing walls purpose.

[@CyanBlackflower]

Very well said or done, but not both. Bedbug. It is almost time for me to leave, the eye see's not itself but by reflection. Find the mirror of SELF reflection. You must break it. Then repair it. When you have gathered enough energy..IF you can...Then you must turn the "Mirror Of Self Reflection Inward and come face to face with what is there. No one is ever prepared for this... And Yet...Perhaps You...Bedbug.... I see you have been contemplating some very deep, very difficult quandaries. I see your reputation for prolific yet stealthy existential proclivity in conjunction with multiplicity, over duplicity appears as a most metaphysical allegory with a most taciturn yet steep inclination towards what can only be anthropophagous design or more accurately termed a hemophagosis which closely resembles those which are specific to members of the cimex lectularius progeny, and in your case via parthenogenesis... Pay close attention Bedbug, I do not say the following often...You have great resistance to chrysanthimum permithrin. Just saying. Now to the matter @ hand... It is not without very deep and sustained consideration not only by myself but also the other grand masters of this order, and I must tell you some of the elemental seers from outside THIS Triskaidekarian order have also been acutely aware of your ...progression. In addition to extremely tenacious persistence, a obsessive fixation with walls, cracks, holes, which you prefix with less veritas moniker such as "doors" "gates" and "locks" affecting greater sophistication where there is in fact none, while concealing the fact there IS great sophistry at work but NOT as it would appear for your convenience. We know about your interest in "De Regni Umbrorum" or did you think us fools? Personally I have no issue with what path one chooses as it is their journey, they must walk it and come what may. There HAS however been rumours - not more than that to my current knowledge - that you have not only made some timorous incursions into the dusky, vast terra incognita, which borders De Regni Umbrorum - As this is the abode of Sargatanas among many other inorganic beings of His kind, and those beings and The Kingdom Of Shadows is Forbidden to you as you are only a mere cimex lectularius. You got that? Bedbug? ~~>>~~>>L~>~~>~~~>>>> You have still a very long way to go, Bedbug, and much to learn. Your life gets longer with each day you live it, while it at once grows shorter as you approach your sepulchral contract, much in the same way a Towel Gets Wet While It Dries. This is one of the prime reasons you must never enter De Regni Umbrorum. You mind me NOW Bedbug. You as yet are unable like the homosapiens you irritate are not able to distinguish the Mere Cloud Passing Over and The Shadow Of The Hawk. Many more who have vanished on their path have been taken by the latter. Far more than you realize. REMEMBER MY WORDS....BUT Therefore You will continue under unseen vigil as usual but you will be much more mindful, and you will, must develop terrific velocity, scrutiny, reflex, SELF discipline, and a special extraordinary attribute - a gift for clear vision that is the ability to "see" without eyes that which expresses the TRUE Nature of a given object or subject via special attention to understanding WHAT IT DOES. SOMETHING IS - WHAT IT DOES. FORGET ABOUT ME. You will use this means to "See" We shall attend to observing your progress. It will be EXTREMELY difficult at first, but will improve logarithmically, not factorial nor by exponent. There is only NOW. No other perception of time is correct. You will do well to make your goal, your ultimate destination...the journey itself. Try to understand. Have patience, like a doctor. If you do EXACTLY these things to start, you will discover the kryptic mysterioum ordo, your understanding will gather momentum with sustained effort. Continued effort ensures there is NO failure. Yet you MUST fail, many times to succeed, Think of how you learned to walk. REMEMBER MY WORDS...THEN... Increasing in step with Leonardo Fil Bona Natura or better known as Fibonacci The Son Of Good Nature. His Famous Sequence converging on the Golden Ratio 1:1.618... Fibonacci seq, 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144......Got it? Learn it's secrets. Relat> Mandelbrot & Julia Frac. Sets. The power of 3. And Bedbug. One more thing. You will not see me, but When you are able to snatch the pebble out of my hand, your velocity will be approaching that of which only a formless. fluidic Warrior can generate, then It will be time for you to Leave. Remember Nothing is what it appears to be.Not EVER. Instead Something Is WHAT IT DOES. Stillness gives meaning to movement. Bedbug. Don't look up. Nor Down. LOOK OUT. Bedbug, You must FORGET ABOUT ME... FORGET ABOUT ME...

[@fullpowersuperperfectcell3799]

@@CyanBlackflowerwhat are you on about…… that has absolutely nothing to do with Zen

[@CyanBlackflower]

@@fullpowersuperperfectcell3799 Yes, You are correct. I, being a bit "loaded" at the time, and MORE than a "bit" fed up with many of the videos I've seen and their pretentious treatise of topics they really know little about. (IMO) I, with humorous intent-decided to have a little FUN with it, and blow off some steam...not to be taken too seriously. I DO however appreciate that you took the time to read, contemplate this enough to respond/question my comment, which is more than I expected, since it is slightly off my usual rant, and I barely recall even typing it. So, I thank You.

[@FlamingSwordOfWisdom108]

Thank you

[@audiobuddho]

You’re welcome 😊

[@WhenceRed]

6:30 + Jo Shu?

[@kurisensei]

Jōshū

[@gregoryford3531]

Umm, I tell myself to try and remember having not been born. A question: 'what is it like when Suffering does not Practice, because one's practice does not suffer? I also remind myself to not confuse The Gordian Knot with the Cosmic koan. A Problem is no less Man, even without Self and Other. An Endgame? Try Noble Zazen' (the act of ichigyo samai -trruly...( Random thoughts of a warrior/seeker/P-M-H) nuff said...Thanx .

[@fabioschneider5970]

.... want to travel some more.

[@alexevans7916]

When the Sun sets in the saucer of milk the cat will sing to the cockoo clock

[@pedridemperi9872]

Alex go back to your dormitory

[@robbyzwolsman6980]

It’s too clear and so it’s hard to see. A dunce once looked for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was he would have cooked his rice much sooner

[@williamcarter7977]

After listening to these words I am very certain that I am not, not, not "enlightened".

[@ILikeCoconutsLots]

What's that at the start about word-drunkeness. Intro is too long!

[@nathanon7177]

Book starts at 4:11

[@BabbaYagga]

Beautiful text. Beautifully read.

[@CeresKLee]

What a wonderful and perfect dance about architecture!

[@seed_of_the_woman]

wonderful! no one gets that this is about architecture! 🤍💭

[@Kenji1685]

The Torii (gate/entrance) are entrances to Shinto temples. Not a zen Buddhist symbol

[@JeremyHelm]

Folder of time

[@JeremyHelm]

34:03 in the light of day, yet in a dream, he talks of a dream

[@JeremyHelm]

35:14 it is best to forget..., retire from wind?

[@JeremyHelm]

37:09 teachings to the highest peak (?)

[@JeremyHelm]

9:19 bracket the opining The dog at least is being there

[@JeremyHelm]

30:27 prior to eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

[@karlpadley-y7n]

how to scratch an itchy foot thru your shoe. hahaha, hello from blackpool, lancashire, england

[@myusername3689]

Very profound

[@theonionpirate1076]

What if I am naturally a person who likes sweets and easy living, but am not myself (I haven't been for a long time)?

[@vincent21212]

Clinging to any one teaching is a gated gate. There is no truth in a single line. You cannot find the Whole in a fraction of it.

[@FlamingSwordOfWisdom108]

We did it

[@steevo211]

It's ok to understand, it's not special, everyone will one day. You just have to wait. It is like that Relief that comes when you first hear the word such-ness! You need good understanding people around you, or the others, in their ignorance will hurt you. Find Your Family In "The Way" A Sangha, Spiritual Community etc. It's the only security you will have. 🌷 😊 💕

[@Eli_water_lily]

I didn't get any of the koans 😢

[@zeMasterRuseman]

There's nothing to get. Pay attention to the into

[@FlamingSwordOfWisdom108]

It is your true self it has nowhere to hide!

[@DAnjouAguilar]

Can anyone cite his source?

[@MrJack556]

Yo dawg we heard you like gateless gates...

[@narayansivajiramos999]

"When you realize who you are you will know just how much of a moron you've been" ~ from The Fuggedaboudit Sutra ~

[@lastman7409]

heheheehe

[@navirangi7122]

😂😂😂

[@edgabrielsen4725]

"Place yourself in the same freedom as sky." 28:38 case 19

[@renecaro2014]

I don’t get it🤦🏻

[@AX1A]

the funny thing is to ask some one who gets it to explain -- they can't

[@DRMUKESHSETIA]

It does not matter you were in it that matters

[@ImmortalGods]

The monkey jumped in the river, the old man jumped in after him,the monkey swam to the other side of the river and laughed at the old man drowning...ding

[@ceyboard4296]

"Does a Dog Buddha Nature?" is the Zen equivalent to "Do dogs go to heaven?"

[@MilesTeg_cy]

I've first read the book and all the koans and stories in it almost 35 years ago. Memorized by heart, all of them. Been thinking of them ever since. They are always with me, whatever I do.

[@ChipotleHeat]

What did you learn from it?

[@dexterj5615]

Hasn't it been an interesting ride? ~ Ram Dass

[@surejuju9395]

I cried when I was gateless, but I stopped crying when I saw a man without a gateless gate 😂

[@TrueGoat-Bahhh]

Man the narrator needs to realize the enlightened man is one with the law of causation.

[@casey9439]

man, I wonder what the commenter needs to realize.

[@erskine2411]

from which publication/edition is peter reading?

[@ValeryChikalov]

I would like to know an answer for the same question

[@ValeryChikalov]

looks like it is part of "Zen flesh, zen bones"

[@erskine2411]

@@ValeryChikalov you're right, It's that one. Translated by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps.

[@melvinkellner3840]

The words point towards enlightenment as a finger would point to the moon, if you only look at the finger... you will never see the moon.

[@1rocknroy]

Peter Coyote read Zen Mind Beginner's Mind long long ago. 😇🤣🥰