The Notes of the Disciples of Bodhidharma - Part 1

An American-born Zen monk Hyon Gak Sunim explains some of Bodhidharma's teachings.
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[@MrHillflower]

This series makes me want to take every book, document, sutra, and thought I've acquired over the years about Buddhism and throw it all in a river! So succinct, such a clear pointing that it leaves nothing more to be said. Beautiful. Homage to the perfection of Wisdom, Homage to the Awakened!

[@KeniLeeBurgess]

Dharma discourses are like being offered a meal when we are hungry. They certainly do inspire. "No reliance on words or phrases" does not diminish the wisdom passed down in sutra, but like a picture of food, it will never truly satisfy our hunger. Practice Sitting Zen. What we actualize in this practice will make the words in the sutra resonate with truth. I think you are looking at it backwards. The sutra are the truth. Our mind obscures their brilliance. Keep practicing.

[@alidalavezzari4103]

Meditation: without meditation every teaching is only intellectual. With meditation we understand. May all living beings obtain enlightenement.

[@silverfox3800]

Enjoy this. Thank you for the upload.

[@waulau8]

Great talk sunim! Thank you for your teachings!

[@Srinivasan-oq9ec]

I met bodhidharma's descendants in his birthplace Kanchipuram,Tamilnadu, India.

[@amida9195]

Easy easy Much love to all humanity 😄🥰🍂🍁🧘🏽‍♂️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 I don't care who and where and why .... I just take the powerful teachings to bring me home Thank u 😃😊🙏🏼

[@AbdulAli-ce4np]

Very intelligent and great man salute you bro

[@mirimiriya_90]

I’m a monk in this temple now ❤

[@white9362]

고맙습니다!!

[@sadhanabangde5584]

What a captivating VOICE.......

[@filomena9794]

Maravilhoso 🌹

[@JonWongArt-Music]

thank you 🙏

[@Alexandre152]

WAIIT! I can also see 00101 !!!! But, at the same time, I can also see.. 5. very interesting perspective! This is wisdom.

[@youssefzeineddine2488]

Beautiful!

[@latwill301]

Mind blowing and humbling.

[@kelvintansc]

Each thing is perceive through knowing. The self shines in space through knowing. Perceived one being as knower and known.

[@urbanmonastic75]

I needed this and it happened

[@angelakwon5304]

Thank you. Hyngak Sunim. ..For. your. meditational. and. prayers....Wentz. will. make. home. next Month......thanks. to. merit of Budahst.......

[@LLY8T]

Thank you very much for sharing !!!

[@Skelfi]

There is a framework that is called: Eight Circuit Model of Conciousness. I think it's really cool tool for putting buddhism in a more contemporary scientific framework. For me it has improved my way of understanding buddhism in a larger context. I reccomend everyone interested in checking up the wikipedia article on the subject. There is also a good summary of the model by Robert Anton Wilson on youtube, in the movie clip named: Techniques of consciousness change. Another good clip is: Language and reality

[@MegaNickson]

Add to that General Semantics. Both, as explained by Robert Anton Wilson, are great pointers.

[@aaronyork3995]

Hyon ghak sunim may be controversial for some, however he points beautifully

[@ramthian]

Thanks 🙏

[@RajRaj-zx4rf]

Bodhi dharma Is a great saint. spiritual powers.

[@Nicktabla]

Much like Socrates: "I know only that I know nothing." It is interesting how philosophies converge.

[@urbanmonastic75]

"Truth" as he speaks of! We all see truth. This surpassed my existentialist thought of the only ultimate truth is that there are no ultimate truths; which in a way coincides with the teachings. My mind is blown yet was simplified simultaneously and I now feel so much more at ease

[@alcosmic]

many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon -Ikkyu

[@uthippesh4045]

Bodhidarma from India🇮🇳

[@ashique0012]

it is not a concept but a reality.

[@Theurbanmonk24]

Very lucid and very simple!! But why that Rudraksha bracelet!??? Does it have a purpose beyond emptiness???

[@LeeDH_List]

Hyon Gak Sunim tries to explain the story of Bodhidharma with Zen.

[@jasonsperduto]

good talk namaste.

[@nirvanamousazadeh425]

Great Talk. Thank you very much. Is there anyway that I cold get in touch with you?

[@SonofRage]

That's Hyon Gak Sunim

[@rupeeking8138]

Read Red Pine's The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma.

[@johansebastian8352]

By the way, these notes are mixed, some of disciples and some actually are bodhidharmas. Now there i see a problem, only a master who is at level which bodhidharma can tell what did bodhidharma say and what did disciples say.

[@dan020350]

good job

[@hotmenlove]

i want to be zen monk but how can i be a student of hyon gak sunim

[@Krishnan172]

This guy looks like young Charles Xavier from x-men!!!

[@joyharmony4449]

Very important Desana

[@Satish_MartialArtist]

True history is revealed on 10 Oct, 2017 by Acharya Babu T Raghu in his book 'Bodhidharma Retold'

[@Satish_MartialArtist]

evangelos papagiannis , roots cannot be forgotten to enjoy the fruits.

[@shoshinmarce5861]

Does anyone know the title of the book the teacher is reading?

[@나비-m7s]

'The Notes of the Disciples of Bodhidharma'

[@johnyhusin]

It is raining out there. It's both sudden and gradual enlightenment :D ..... some heard the sound of rain, and get the sudden enlightenment, and some may need to digest the sound, and trying to process it in their minds, and then finally get the enlightenment it's raining.... DUHHHH!!!!

[@decumoose]

when you think you have already closed of .all thought is a fight or flight ..ok that thought is still true.

[@kungfu4u11]

what is his name??

[@tarasadra8103]

Hyon gak sunim

[@obiterdictum3]

Mind to Mind - thats like Tibetan Lamas who sit next to a building sit instructing the monks to build with just his mind - hear the story.

[@rajanmoses]

6.10 that girl is so pretty.

[@skstanley9535]

irony, the teacher I met was closer to the emperor persona. what happened?

[@cooljeansguy]

At 34.47 Sunim makes a move from peivate language to public language. If Wittgensteinian private language is not possible, from buddhist's emptiness, it makes little sense to talk of private experiences or of private mental states giving rise to public language.

[@threetwo9378]

🙏🙏🙏

[@decumoose]

Why did the Bhodhidarma move west?

[@kmyx215angkorian6]

To spread real Buddhism into China!!

[@Hayk_empty_cloud]

2:40 correct... thats all folks, let go home, eat pizza, drink beer, have a sex, go to work, and repeat until we die.... :D

[@williamfreeman5690]

~rinse & repeat.

[@BrendanYoo00]

The diamond sutra lecture is helpful to watch this video.

[@나비-m7s]

me too.

[@johansebastian8352]

The only reason why Buddhism didn't blossom in India is because Brahms. China and Japan had very beautiful soil prepared for the flowering. Even if they said they believed in magic.

[@Lucky73678]

really. buddhism core principle is. ahimsa paramo dharmaha. now how did it blossom if they have not understood that primary principle. buddha was choosing an ideal..which in reality is not close to ideal. so it did not survive in india.

[@gowriski]

Buddhism subdivision of Hinduism, it's bases on sanatana dharma principles.

[@Lucky73678]

blame it on brahmins for everything. caste war. conversion. fact is brahmin is not one who is born. but one who is professor. anyone can be a brahmin. like anyone can be a warrior. misunderstood and misintrepreted

[@dannyyy97]

Guys what is brahms mean??

[@babylucky833]

Brahms means black hole means don't use brain all u ve got is myth

[@Ma_rkw589]

EEEHHVERTON!!! EEEEHHHVERTON!! EEEHHVERTON!!! come on you blue boys!!!!

[@williamfreeman5690]

that point is the same.

[@joyharmony4449]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@adhithyendra6718]

So bodhidharma is an india correct.

[@wolverineiscool7161]

yes bodhidharma is indian

[@amansagar01]

Are u joking..... He is emptiness belongs to nothing

[@dannyyy97]

Human beings arent Birds tho??

[@noinirvana9980]

Sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@markbrad123]

Bodhidharma similar to Krishnamurti. However, its not easy to get the world's wild disruptive children to behave without some notion of reward even if it is through an illusory concept such as karma, heaven, or Santa's naughty list.

[@sathiyasankarvajjiravel4524]

Bodhidharma from Tamil nadu India

[@thankyoujesussadday1311]

why are the Budda statue have some kind of Black feature big lips beaded hair i have not seen know Budda statue look like a person from China

[@nyclee9133]

Cuz he never looked like a Chinese person he wasn’t chinese.

[@anastasiyachoi8145]

I don't get this...

[@PatrickBateman1987]

+Anastasiya Choi that's the point.

[@iceharmonyrl]

He's speaking from a point of view of someone who has practiced Buddhism for a long time so it might seem vague and strange for a non initiate. Emptiness is realizing that nothing is ever independant, we need the whole force of the universe to make us function, the sun the moon the water and air that makes us alive. Realizing the ego is not an independent entity you stop attaching yourself to past , present and future. Suffering cease to exist. You can practice meditation , vipassana yoga etc to attain a state of enlightenment but there is nothing really to attain everything happens in the present moment. Cleaned and seeing everything clearly from a mind of emptiness the ego stops having an influence and bliss happens. That is what is called enlightenment seeing into the true emptiness of the mind.

[@nyclee9133]

Ricky L yesssssss

[@dannyyy97]

Hey sexy

[@sepehrkarimi9340]

5 fingers reality

[@alcosmic]

that Zen contempt for academics

[@freakinElvis]

Bohdi said a man who shaves his head is a zealot and not Buddha

[@nirugrg2486]

There's no historical records on Bodhidharma so scholars think it is nothing but an interesting myth

[@sivanesannavukarasan5639]

this guy first needs to learn how to pronounce Bodhidharma and the reason why people get lost in the history and believe the origins of his teaching to be based in china is because his teachings were not meant to be written down, but the chinese of the time did so to extend their newly found wisdom through the lands. when he was going to leave back to SOUTH INDIA (his home) the chinese "foresaw" that a great "evil" will be unleashed in china if he left (obviously because he taught them so much) and he voluntarily consumed the food they poisoned and then buried him in their soil. bodhidharman was a thamizhan (south indian, tamil speaking - tamil is the oldest civilized language of the world) and history just distorts this fact

[@sivanesannavukarasan5639]

at least he doesnt have most of his facts wrong

[@dannyyy97]

The chinese poisened him your saying??

[@sivanesannavukarasan5639]

@@dannyyy97 yes...poisoned his food because they believed his body should be buried in China so that they are blessed, or the curse they foresaw would be avoided. So he voluntarily consumed he food... And let them bury him in China. The shaolin temple was the first martial arts temple. And it was founded by his teaching

[@solromero7415]

no merits, attachment to nothing, Who are you? I don't know

[@TheCinmatra]

Perhaps I should confess that I really admire the ability of refining all kinds of crap into pure bullshit.

[@OriginalRipndip]

For the first time I can't listen to Buddhism. Everything is a lie, but he is a lie. I can use my mind to create. There has to be some people in Buddhism who don't vilify the mind.

[@mikedowd66]

I agree. There is an aggression in his speech and mannerisms that are very off putting. Seems antithetical to Zen Buddhism. Also, 2 microphones for one speaker always makes me wonder...

[@kmyx215angkorian6]

***** your mind isnt your enemy it's your urge ( for example if you see a hot looking babe is your mind get turn on or your sexually urge?? Half the time people blame our mind when its basically our craving is controlling our feeling towards materialistic.

[@mohsengholampur4546]

that guy is angry and full of ego

[@Lucky73678]

he is full of emptiness. just full of ideas..but really not even close

[@PatrickBateman1987]

+Mohsen Gholampur you are

[@mohsengholampur4546]

Ok

[@PatrickBateman1987]

projection is a tool of the ego

[@kooma7190]

And you, the Great KZbin Commenter. How many will come to you for wisdom?

[@amida9195]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@jitkabire]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@wanderingfool7136]

🙏🙏🙏