Zen Master Gu Ja - Just eat, sleep and shit

[@hoon_sol]

I see; so the homeless person who recently yelled "eat shit and die!" at me recently was just giving me some friendly Zen advice after all.

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@scampydog2318]

Maybe was recommending the 2010 Julia Roberts/Javier Bardem movie and got a bit mixed up

[@samghising2170]

eat shit and die is completely different to east sleep and shit! so wake up !

[@RainerRilke3]

Underrated comment 😂😂😂

[@davidas5049]

hahahaha

[@KNKLDK]

That laughter made me relaxed. Why do we miss this simplicity.

[@Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeow]

people miss it because they lost the habit/skill/muscle of being okay with being bored. constantly chase after stimulation will bring only misery.

[@realtalkdopenwoke8526]

This was a good one. It feels better when Zen leaders have a sense of humor, it comes off as very confident.

[@GraceKirk-k8y]

My Dad, a Gulag survivor, on his good days would say "Eat, sleep, shit and be happy. On other days he was the most irate, angry, violent, unhappy person to be around.

[@secretagent4610]

What's your point?

[@Robert-xs2mv]

@@secretagent4610 those were the days he did not eat, sleep or shat.

[@frombeyond5]

Poet Ryokan said: "the flower invites the butterfly with no mind, the butterfly comes, the flower opens; the flower opens, the butterfly comes". This no mind is also present in our physical necessities of eating, sleeping and shitting.

[@redsol3629]

This way of no mind, I have read about it in the writing of Takuan Soho. Do not lose sight of the tree for a single leaf. Watch it all, don't try so hard. A spirit of Taoism runs through this. Even the river is busy, is there peace beneath the surface? Or are we enamoured with the shimmers? Do we really see the river?

[@jpope125]

Lovely

[@jn846]

ah but now we know that is far from the full story. They have now found the flower has a magnetic field opposite to what the bee or butterfly has. The flower creates this field like a love letter to the butterfly or bee. Like a sirens call. Oh the flower is not just sitting there with no mind, it has a mind and a will to attract the butterfly. And when the butterfly lands the pollen actually flies through the air and attaches to the butterfly, almost like an orgasm the pollen springs forth. When the butterfly lands the magnetic field of the flower changes so that other butterflies will not be attracted to it. That butterfly will have pollen stuck to it and then the next flower may get pollenated by the butterfly, or bee. And so in that way the flower guarantees it will keep procreating on through the centuries as long as it can attract the bees and the butterflies!

[@frombeyond5]

@@jn846first what is mind and what is no mind? It is important to put Ryokan's words in the context of zen Buddhist philosophy/worldview. Mind here refers to the constant thinking process which is not always beneficial for our "will to life" or what Spinoza called "the conatus": the fundamental drive of every entity to persist in its own being. This magnetic field of the flower you just described is the scientific explanation of this drive. Same thing, different language. The flower and the bee are interconnected, their will to life guides them towards each other. Without overthinking or sabotaging the process. I think this is the sense in which Ryokan's words could be understood.

[@todayipaint4667]

@@jn846 No thinking mind. No mind does not mean nothing.

[@solgast]

Be and breathe friend. Neither future nor past can reach you in the now. It is in the now you have that high awareness of being. Keep creating!

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

This is nonsense. It's just platitudes. Completely meaningless. It has absolutely nothing to do with Zen. Forget what you think you know. You really don't know anything much and unfortunately it shows.

[@parlance.electricco]

wavy gravy asked a zen master what happens after we die... the master said he didn't know... but, protested wavy, you are a zen master!.. yeah, the master answered, but I'm not a fucking dead one... Miraculous power and marvelous activity Drawing water and chopping wood. (Pangyun, a lay Zen practitioner, eight century C.E.)

[@jn846]

😁

[@samghising2170]

was he really that rude and use the word F, common, there is no need for this!

[@HyphaeHighway]

​@@samghising2170word is a word.

[@AboriginalAmerican]

@@samghising2170it adds spice to it

[@christopherlamott9351]

@@samghising2170 what is it to be rude? Is rudeness not merely a construct? ❤🙏

[@pippipster6767]

On that basis, my Great Dane is a high Zen master 😂

[@jota55581]

Love this 😂

[@trmp9923]

and my rabbit, wtf

[@jota55581]

@@trmp9923 🤣

[@timmellis5038]

Does a dog have Buddha nature?

[@claireleamy3168]

That's the point exactly....

[@Innocence-v2s]

Wow this is the most powerful lesson I've listened, the most clear one, and the most essential. Thank you so much

[@Sheet_music0]

When I get unhappy, depressed I return to this video. It is so simple and profound.

[@olderchat_3056]

Мудрость востока👆👆👆 иншалла

[@citizent6999]

Follow the instructions on it and you won't have to keep returning.

[@Sheet_music0]

@@citizent6999 yes bro. I remind myself everyday about this.

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

You don't get unhappy or depressed. You are the one that notices that depression or sadness is present in the body. Your the silent observer who notices things occurring but has no control of them and isn't affected by them. You are like the sky and emotions, thoughts, and feelings are like the clouds. Clouds can't hurt or affect the sky but the sky can watch and observe the clouds. The sky remains detached from the clouds.

[@Sheet_music0]

@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life Beautiful, poetic but makes no sence to me. Sorry.

[@lievenyperman9363]

Zen is so joyful, I love it.

[@snudgegalbraith3447]

Its humbling

[@someguyguy4019]

Who is your favourite zen Master? You, you, you. Get it? Cause everybody is a Zen Master. That's the secret. But it's not a secret, it's a matter of realising it.

[@mlongpre100]

master po is my favorite. he always got to the meat of things

[@sergiofernandez4566]

Thanks

[@OwbuR.N]

It makes me happy too, as i feel these few words together as a poem unburdens the mass of the upturned pyramid of the rely-gones, the fear of death instilled along with all its pressures upon our shoulders. Perhaps the person missing that bit of rib and feeling the most pain will one day hear this simple poem. ThankYou☘️

[@Olhor10]

Amazing woman. Student asked her something and she answered it as a koan instantly. That shows how advanced she is.

[@cleanhabitats108]

To shit well is most important. I learned this at a very young age. All other things fall into positions of lesser degree. One other thing of high importance is to check weather before sailing. Best to not concern one's self with anything else.

[@roybrown1529]

Beautiful woman. A wonderfully intense few minutes. To keep coming back to.

[@walteredstates]

Any zen talk including 'Ficken, fressen, fernseh'n' geht's my thumbs up, no hesitation.❤😅

[@jiggersotoole7823]

"...What is that, that is doing this? find this point (slap). No life. No death." Brilliant. And hilarious too.

[@jozefwoo8079]

I don't get it

[@R.Merkhet]

She's such a gem. Such an enlightened spirit.

[@NovChivon]

pshh...just an ordinary person ..she forgot about the boyfriend program...eat sleep shit and push his girlfriend's shit in haha

[@Jay-o1s7p]

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.” Zen Master Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

[@oneness8648]

Absence of Awareness is Death. There is no other Death.

[@misterpibb108]

Best post I have ever read.

[@EponaDreams-AmbientDreamscapes]

Finally, someone teaches Zen

[@YogaVideothek]

Oh gosch das ist wunderschön... einmalig. Namaste.

[@SirJaymesDAudelée]

I love the sentiment that, if I ever think I really need more than “eat, sleep, and, shit”, that’s a problem. And I suppose if I ask my self what the nature of that problem is, when I’m in that situation, it will probably lead me to a great discovery. Thx for the video 🙏🫶✌️😎

[@mentalitydesignvideo]

Is this the next step in the evolution of Live Love Laugh?

[@franzvega5281]

Dear, Master: Please If one day you come Looking for me, Ask for me At the fishmonger's, In the tavern, Or in the brothel. Thanks ❤️

[@kungfumcgee7992]

Needed this. Thank you.

[@Kaustubhdasdehlvi]

What an incredibly cool teacher!!!!

[@TheFurion101]

A true Zen Master! Well said, well done!

[@opellouisedalsh5192]

"Chop Wood Carry Water" " ESSD" Sip water slowly...💫 Great Teaching, x

[@jameslynn3702]

Thank you for your inspiration, on Eat, Sleep, Shit and then we can say: "Aloha Paradise", and just be thankfulness for now we are in Paradise. Amen. Much Blessings!!!

[@swyveu]

This has nothing to do with any notion of 'Paradise'. Quite the opposite.

[@jameslynn3702]

Please explain, not sure what you mean.@@swyveu

[@chrisrutherfurd9338]

Superb.

[@12onin_Gypsy]

The way she delivered that point at the end 😮❤

[@johnmccormick3147]

We do not come in to life,we are life, and life is God.We as sentient beings were created by the Devine and have always been, eternal.

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

That would make a great bumper sticker. It's utter nonsense of course and you have no idea what even your own life is about but thanks for the good laugh. :)

[@Sidtube10]

Beautiful. There is always the knower behind all thoughts/actions!!!

[@damonpreusch880]

It is what i want in life .To be able to eat and shit in peace.That is a life

[@PotatoPCFishingBoomerDude]

Someone finally came up with the meaning of life. Bravo!

[@kaya.ali.]

“˹He is the One˺ Who created death and life in order to test which of you is best in deeds. And He is the Almighty, All-Forgiving.” Al-Mulk / 2

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

Take your intolerance and bigotry somewhere else, or get banned from KZbin.

[@IvanSpaziano-ko5cv]

Finally someone that speak upon the essential 🙂🙄🙌

[@AurelienCarnoy]

I blow into my lungs I blow into the world.

[@parlance.electricco]

i blow into my bag of fries to cool them

[@oyo899]

Don't forget Sleep.

[@bigbeef332]

Ahh you have taught me the way master

[@cristinabusacca6398]

We live to Love also . To learn.

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

There is nothing to learn, nothing that needs improving, nothing you need to gain or achieve. Don't be a painter trying to add layers of unnecessary paint onto the canvas of you. Instead be a sculptor and chip away at the conditioning, the illusion, the lies, the false self. We don't live to love, as love isn't something we do, it's what we are. There is nobody here to do anything anyway. There is no you.

[@BaliLifeWithJLB]

@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life What nonsense. Nothing to learn. So you never learned to write or speak? Nothing to improve? So if you had a broken leg you wouldnt go and get it set by a surgeon? So if you are partaking in the sculptor anology are you not learning and improving....... Isn't caring, contributing etc. loving things we DO... New Age delusion.

[@Takwakin40]

your response resounded with me at this point in my life@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life

[@alberttanner408]

Thats what I have been doing for 40 years. A Hokikomori practicing Non Doing Zen.

[@lovmovement8477]

Excellent teaching

[@benjaminthishandleistaken]

I have just been enlightened!! Wow. Better get off the seat of leisure now. 🙏🏼🌸

[@ananda_miaoyin]

Alan Watts approves this message.

[@zoghaleshams]

Exactly😅

[@luiginoto3352]

I was very inspired first thing in the morning Grest work!

[@silverchairsg]

Zen priests are the only religious people I've seem who actually seem lively and happy.

[@ssoshred8839]

Cuz they're not religious. Religion = system of thought zen is more so a philosophy of life rather than a rule system.

[@silverchairsg]

@@ssoshred8839 So says every sect. Anyway idgaf what it's called, the proof is how happy the priests/teachers look.

[@HappySlappii]

We're almost like plants really you know..... Just kind of water them and stuff.... Brilliant!

[@craigedwards6108]

Brilliant. I love it.

[@randycunningham7318]

It is an inspiring poem. I've been forgetting to shit.

[@sonicart1808]

Listen to this lady, she's being honest, a long-forgotten concept in today's world apparently.......

[@AwakenedEmptiness]

Nirvana, the putting out of the flame of desire. 🌬️💨🕯️

[@siewkonsum7291]

Zen Master Gu Ja 🙏🙏🙏 Once a Zen master asked SK Sum, _"How do you practice Zen?"_ SK Sum replied, _"To eat when hungry, to rest when tired, to shit when necessary."_ Zen master retorted, _"Then you are not different from others!"_ SK Sum replied, _"Not sir, when others eat, they think & worry of many things, when they rest, they dream & have many nightmares, then they forget to shit to suffer constipation!"_ 😊🙏🙇‍♂️🌷

[@S.dukes123]

Wonderful, take me back to my junior playground!!

[@purpleorange7430]

Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@loretopizzuti4579]

in practice he is saying that the human being should regress to the state of an involuted animal... it is not at all because the human being is a grandiose being in all his mental complexity and it is not at all true that desire causes suffering, suffering arises from the lack of knowledge rooted in the ego of the human being... therefore it is necessary to know how to stop and detach oneself from one's own sense of ego or at least manage it in the best possible way... once the human being is deprived of desire it becomes a bad thing inexpressive... the true purpose of life is not to annihilate oneself in it but to become conscientiously eternal... now I understand why Buddhism born in India is present throughout Asia, even in India itself 😅

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

First of all, this teacher is a woman, not a man. Secondly, no you've completely missed the point. Watch the actual video before commenting in future. If nothing else, it will save you embarrassing yourself as you just did.

[@TomMarkson]

I remember reading one Zen Master saying When Hungry I eat

[@lievenyperman9363]

When hungry eat when tired sleep.

[@siewkonsum7291]

Eat when hungry, Drink when thirsty; Rest when tired! Finish your porridge? Go wash your bowl! (Anyway, all these are 'dead' words with 'dead' meanings, unless you have had an intense experience of it within yourself!)

[@dokkus]

Don John in 'Much Ado About Nothing' gets it.

[@p-medical3012]

She forgot to say: laugh and love...but she is exercising it anyway

[@naturalhigh9909]

Love is form of attachment. It's compassion that truly bind us compassion= suffer together... If you love someone their is always to hate someone. If you find someone beautiful their is always that you find ugly.

[@alanarcher]

This is a wonderful teaching, from a wonderful teacher.

[@viveksharma8698]

JAI BABAJI 🌳🌺🌷🌸🌻🌼💐🎄🌹❤️🦚🪷🙏JAI MAA 🌻🌸🌼🌳🌺💐🌷🎄🌹❤️🦚🪷🙏

[@ShivShakthiPreena05]

Aah to be in her presence...... This is Love ❤

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

Nope. You're missing the point.

[@Nooneself]

When you meet someone in Zen who is clearly awakened....then you can trust your Zen instructor. I've met thousands of Zen practitioners/instructors and non are awakend(nor am I). I've gotten rid of Zen masters and now follow neuroscience. It's far more effective unless you find a neuroscientist who teaches Zen Best wishes to you🙏

[@michaelnice93]

It’s impossible for a student to accurately judge whether anyone is awakened or not. That includes themselves. That being said the teacher clicks or they don’t. I get actually get more from my fellow sangha members than I do the teachers. The teacher is there to play a role, and a good student will apply themselves diligently regardless of the attainment of the teacher. I see it as a path that one travels their entire life. Stepping on and off the path is actually almost necessary because over decades we go through stages and sometimes we must strike out on our own, even if we come back later, perhaps even in another community.

[@joeroberts2156]

Better than "Eat Pray Love".

[@Samuel96889]

No life, no death just perfection!❤

[@HigherPlanes]

I would add, connection with God. Old age is the point where a person is going to leave this world. The greatest gift God can give a person towards the end of their life is the realization that it's only about me and you. That's it. Your children that you though you could rely on, they're disgusted by you. Your body which you thought was you, it's not you. Your money doesn't mean anything. You're almost trapped inside of your mind. The mind is still there on the inside even though there's not a lot going on on the outside. What's a person do on the inside? Crate that connection with God. Creating intimacy. The greatest gift you can give someone before they leave this world is tell them, look, don't make any mistakes anymore. That third dimension that you've ignored throughout your life, and never really spent time to nourish, that connection with me, now I'm giving you that opportunity, because everything else is gone. It's just you and me. That's what's happening. What people on the outside can't see. that's what's being created on the inside. The most profound moment in life is the moment just before you die. Do you know why? Because that moment just before you die, you have the total realization that, "God, it's just about me and you and nothing else" Everything else was an illusion.

[@marcr2204]

i would have loved it if we just came here to eat, sleep, and shit but that is not possible without working like dog

[@dnhg9730]

I feel like I've wasted my time; and people would say I am just Zen enough.

[@lawrencewilliamson5480]

Only missed one thing eat, sleep, shit, then please wipe ass! I appreciate that she added “fucking”. Many times there is a big aversion against masters or priest to have sex. Sex is more than we have defined it as. Just as all other things are. To have intercourse may not be what everybody would want but even sex can be meditation. “I” liked her answer to the question “who is your favorite Zen Master.” Even though one could also say there is no Zen Master.🈚️🐉❤️

[@greggaspar2480]

"Everyone shall find bliss in his own fashion" - "Jeder soll nach seiner Façon selig werden" - as Frederick II, King of Prussia, said.

[@nsbd90now]

"Maybe you could add more things?" How about... 10,000 things? lol!

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

My favorite comment here! LOL!

[@nsbd90now]

@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life The Tao that can be joked about is not the eternal Tao. 😆

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

@@nsbd90now That's ok I don't concern myself with the eternal Tao, these days, it's overrated anyway, instead I focus on the Tao of Pooh as I can joke about it all I want with him. 😂

[@franzhaas5597]

It reminds me of the joke by george carlin about why he hates self-help. He said, "What's so hard about life? You wake up, you eat. You sh*t you, go to work, come home, smoke a joint, and go to bed. What's so hard about that?

[@jeanpaulmacabre]

I like to think Prajnatara had this kind of attitude.

[@integratingpresence]

What is life force? How does it work?

[@ilonkaleibfried2142]

🤩🙏🥰 Embrace Detach Dance ✨☀️🌼☀️✨

[@fuzzi1002]

Thanks for the tip on how to practice 5 Rhythms ....😊 (and life😊)

[@lotsawapadmavimoksac.chico5610]

Homage to the Tathāgata.

[@morbidlust999]

Eat healthy, sleep, meditate, shit, repeat

[@Sheet_music0]

Too much

[@gladissemensato2061]

Thanks.

[@1rustyboy1]

I'm healed 😅

[@muazc7950]

beautiful, the I AM

[@beef4722]

Hello

[@thedarklight9082]

I don't know if I got those three in the right order. Ah well *€&# it lol

[@Alligator6002]

Eat, sleep, shit repeat. I've got it! I'm enlightened!

[@naturalhigh9909]

Lol zen is not that. Zen is all about self exparience.. Any video can't make you enlightned

[@ProfRonanMC]

I notice that three things that you can postpone but you must do in the end - eating, sleeping and shitting - are preparing you for the last one!

[@someguyguy4019]

If you have studied the cultures and religions of the world you'll find out inevitably that they're all talking about the same thing. This energetic love that moves the stars, galaxies, the thing that makes you digests your food, the thing that makes you blink and hear and eat and sleep and shit and so on, this great happening is God. Or Allah, or Brahma, or the Dao/Tao, whatever name you have from your background, they're all talking about the same thing. If you're fortunate, and wake up one day and discover that you are this great energy, HOORAY. You've finally woken up to the fact that you are a Zen Master, or a son of God. That you are Allah, or that you are the Dao, it doesn't matter what name you try to put on it, you can't be named. 😏 Now if you really understand that you are that, you ought to discover that everybody else is too. Jesus Christ, early in his life had this amazing consciousness experience. He tried to wake people up to the fact that they are too. Of course, people in those times were absolutely shocked and thought he was some sort of unnatural man, who performs miracles, is basically immortal and so on. Of course he is. Of course you are. All of us will die one day and leave not even a spec of dust behind, we can digest food, do millions of functions around our body every single millisecond without thinking about it, isn't this all a miracle? Look around you, were in space. Space is infinite, therefore any position from which you look at space could be said to be the center. You are the central point of the entire universe. And if you discover that you are the universe, you've already abolished all the problems that would arise if you felt like you were a stranger and afraid in a world it never made. What's even greater is that you don't need to know any of this, just like you don't need to know how to breathe to be able to do it. You don't need someone to teach you you're a master of life, because you are anyhow. But if you want a master, sure. But it's always more fun to find something out for yourself. 😂🤫

[@dayan47]

You are so not Allah

[@tutorialchief]

not love(whatever tha means) moves the stars, its passion, if you create something you do it because something is missing, not because out of "love", its because of lack and you want something

[@herbertmonnartz4638]

Guja, you forgot something. Ikyu also liked to go to the brothel or have fun with his beautiful Shin. But if Zen is no longer there, it would be very pathetic. What do you think of compassion and active, real love?

[@herbertmonnartz4638]

What are you? dead or alive@Davison-Cale

[@herbertmonnartz4638]

@Davison-Cale

[@aaronyork3995]

Hapchang master. So helpful

[@himmelssturmer4329]

이런 표현하면 실례될지 모르겠지만,너무 귀여우십니다.

[@angel-kitty-inuyasha]

She's a nun, friend

[@dbuck1964]

@@angel-kitty-inuyasha And she’s a woman, and a damn good looking one at that.

[@romanryuninvalek487]

@@angel-kitty-inuyasha No, Zen master Gu Ja is married.

[@angel-kitty-inuyasha]

@@romanryuninvalek487 she's still a nun. My teacher's married but he's still a monk.

[@romanryuninvalek487]

@@angel-kitty-inuyasha In Kwan Um monks cannot marry. Unless they changed that rule recently. What makes you think she is a nun? In Soto Zen monks can marry.

[@ahdumbs1161]

I think this is a video that will have different meanings the more I return to it. Right now, I’m not sure I fully understand, and that’s my truth.

[@alibenchekroun-6024]

Reading these comments while defecting 😊

[@heekyungkim8147]

We should live to do good. Not do evil things.

[@nitramrobits9653]

Gu Ja FTW!!!

[@jn846]

So funny, it's hysterical to think that all of life and the many actions we take that we think have meaning all boils down to eating, sleeping, and shitting. At least according to some Zen Masters. I laughed out loud because of the irony how we think everything little thing we do like amassing a fortune or having a big family has so much meaning, but in the end it really means nothing at all. But then on the other hand even eating, sleeping, and taking a huge dump can be done with mindfulness. For someone following a mindfulness path mindfulness is the essential state of being. No matter what you do - eating, sleeping, pooping included! It's kind of the Yang to the Yin. No mind / mindfulness! Which do you prefer?

[@variolaa1089]

yeah, dont cloth, dont cook , dont clean yout closet, dont wash your cloths, .. its so easy to be zen.

[@pedrorootman]

who is farming? who is cooking? who is cleaning the shitting place?... who is living?

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

Yeah, sounds clever and all and you may have read some bits and pieces on Zen but no, this is not real insight at all. It's just empty, parroted phrases from you. Do better.

[@pedrorootman]

@@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter it was not an insight.. its my conclusion. Zen is sacred ancient culture I do respect. Sometimes there are some questions to be asked, I think people need a fine insight brought by the correct ones instead of flashy things. 🙏🏾

[@nolancoates4856]

That pretty much sums up life 😂😂😂

[@Ludacrisgaronio]

Lesson for people tha lives in year 1000

[@bertenqvist7324]

It sounds so organic and xssincere when a chinese/japanese say Shit,.. ssshhhiet.

[@Corey-iw4ot]

Her language is bad ass

[@charlessatya9329]

From now until my death I will shit thinking on you, oh master!

[@JohnHenrySheridan]

Kind of makes sense.