Zazen Is Good For Nothing - Just Sitting

[@GrimeyCrunchdog]

*Your speech about enlightenment being an egotistical desire is bang on the money. Domo arigato sir!* 🙌🏾

[@Interiormythos]

@GrimeyCrunchdog, yes…yes. And isn’t this a paradox! Thank you for this reflection and for finding your way to this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider taking the sequential journey in consciousness offered by the “Life Journey” series found on the homepage of this channel. GO Deep!

[@GrimeyCrunchdog]

@@Interiormythos Thank you I'll check for the Life Journey series now! Thank you sir!

[@Ikaros23]

I think what most in reality seek is perfect " Zen". That is the mind craves for the suffering of the changes in life to stop. But the truth... That is reality. Is that permanence can never happen. The world and life is impermanent and in total flux. Craveing for Zen, is the basic in spirituality. The craveing for clarity, peace, bliss. Then the irony is that this craveing creates suffering. The brilliance of Dogens teaching is that, if we focus on sitting instead of craveing enlightenment. Then our suffering of the craveings will lessen.

[@Aldermus]

​@Ikaros23 why would you ever sit? If not again for enlightenment? If you sit not for enlightenment then what's the point of even sitting or speaking about it? You could more easily just eat and live your life, no? And speaking about ozumura, what he says doesn't make sense. Why he became monk? It's obvious there is in him a super strong deside to get enlightenment. Otherwise nobody would make such an Important step in his life

[@frankchilds9848]

Thank you Roshi for your heart felt and direct presentation.

[@Interiormythos]

🙏🙏 GO Deep!

[@tionblack]

i am 38 and found out i got adhd that made me realise why i was like this all these years. I wish a school try to help people with ADHd :(

[@Interiormythos]

Tionblack, do you realize that ADHD is your special gift from Reality? The only help you need is the practice of learning to live as the ADHD-gifted human being you are. Life is a funny thing and we all have our special gifts that, in the first instance, we wish we didn’t have or believe the universe made a mistake in giving a specific gift to us. The only journey that can truly heal any of us is the journey into a personal and deep relationship with Reality; which heals all things! We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys KZbin channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner; one who practices encountering Reality. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!

[@tionblack]

@@Interiormythos The owner of this message is the Zazen Monk in these videos? or His son ? or Someone else?

[@tionblack]

Would this person in the video oversee and guide me throu this journey of self discovery? My thoughts are too many and i use medication for adhd its like long release ritalin, does it not count as cheating in buddhism ?I feel like i am cheating even tho medication does not do much for my symptoms considering i have gone throu a lot and i am in pain.Lost my mother and my cat last year and i feel like i am like a sage sitting still in sadness within a hurricane... how can i learn an effective meditation i can manage :(

[@Interiormythos]

Tionblack, Abbott Shohaku Okumura of the Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana USA is a meaningful voice and teacher appearing on the Interior Mythos KZbin Channel. You can also find other material and lectures by him on KZbin. He has retired this year from formal duties with the Sanshin Zen Community and we do not believe he is personally available for individual instruction. You can certainly submit an inquiry through the Sanshin website: www.sanshinji.org. The Interior Mythos Journeys team will always respond to your specific inquiries on this channel. The Life Journey series we recommended you consider encountering does hold the essence of much of Abbott Okumura’s guidance in a sequential method over 69 short video messages. We recommend encountering one module per week and interiorly dialoguing with the message throughout the week of living your specific daily life prior to going to the next module in the series. Please also see the response to the second part of your question.

[@Interiormythos]

Tionblack, for self-discovery, we strongly recommend the Life Journey series. We know of no better sequential path existing in our contemporary world. We are not concerned at all about the use or non-use of medication in supporting one’s personal journey-of-depth. In your own most-personal dialogue and communion/communication with Reality, it will become clear when such “aids” are helpful or not helpful; needed or no-longer-needed. There is not an absolute answer for the circuitous path of a life. The sadness and the interior hurricane are not unique to you. These come with the package of living an awake life. Remember, Principle #1 articulated by the Buddha: Life is suffering! How this suffering manifests from one individual to another may vary but the underlying reality is universal. Yet if you pursue the deep journey, you will discover at new levels, it is a Friendly Hurricane! Don’t be in too much of a hurry with your practice of meditation or deep interior inquiry. Let the path come to you. It will. GO Deep!

[@rul4522]

Where nothing is everything…

[@Interiormythos]

Rul, yes, may this paradox capture us all! We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. We suggest you explore this journey in more depth by encountering the “Life Journey” series on the homepage of the “Interior Mythos Journeys” KZbin Channel. These modules provide a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey is a good place to start. Just scroll down the home page. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!