Zen & Obsession

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[@andreasmoor4969]

I always skipped Zazen being "too busy". Always realizing, that I needed it the most during the "hard" times. Thank you for talking on this topic Brad.

[@ldydyk]

Hey Brad, I really needed to hear this talk. As you know, I've been flailing around for a while now. Thank you for doing these video blogs.

[@nikkavarrow948]

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[@otorishingen8600]

holy crap... like the saying goes "if the pupil is ready the teacher will pop up" you're explanations are my wavelength... i sooo get what say because i wen't through similar phases... fear of losing a loved one... sitting down and shutting up was indeed the only thing that really saved my sanity... like a reboot of the "operating system".. the "hard" part of zazen is that it is so unspectacular and the mind "loves" spectacular... so it can feel "wrong" at times "you're wasting your time - DO something"...but sticking at it and continue "observing" is like reducing the density of a fog thank you for this great videos 👏😌

[@JunguianPhantom]

Your quote about emptiness resounded very hard with me

[@chrisbirdsall6055]

I recently started playing guitar again with no motive other to channel the creative impulse and bring joy to my life. What I noticed soon after was the return of old habits such as obsessing over finding the right tone and over-analyzing what I was playing or trying to play. Now with more experience of the dharma in my life I am learning to let go of those tendencies and to be more of a conduit for what I already know and to just explore and observe. You are 100% correct in that obsession drains one's energy and causes unneeded pain and inhibits true creativity.

[@blackbird5634]

One really important line from "Hardcore Zen" was the description of Zazen as boredom, leg cramps and agony, more boredom and frustration..I paraphrase here but, this was a critical part of my introduction to the practice. Had i been looking for a 'peak experience' or a 'transcendental experience' then i'd have been lost, bored, frustrated and probably quit.(I'm a quitter and a shirker, and a n'aer do well ) However, knowing that what i was going to experience would (often as not) be boring, miserable, frustrating and YET still be 'the correct way to sit Zazen'' made a big difference.

[@tombombadil5690]

Thank you so much, this was just what I needed!

[@idk-sx3th]

Great very practical advice from 10:04, thank you.

[@markbrad123]

This is anecdotal, the best watch for thoughts that create migraines is to get under the mind bonnet and feel/in-see the space between pulses that feed thought and the spaces between thought nerves opened out as windows or inter-penetrated in by whole attention. Be patient stay with it and let go.

[@fusionarmy]

Great Video again! Thank you Brad! I always had these feeling that there is no better time to do zazen then when you not feel to, but now i know for sure and why!

[@angrycity]

I think this format is perfect for ya brad! Thanks for sharing. Hope we can see you in Sac again soon.

[@MrWxerby]

Super useful! Thanks, Brad!

[@zastahammer]

Thank you for this, Brad.

[@HardcoreZen]

You're welcome!

[@tylerpoehlmann5927]

Very helpful I sometimes come back to this practice and getting back into it has a new learning curve everytime

[@dark_sunset]

Thanks for making this video, and thanks to the guy who ask you the question as well

[@HardcoreZen]

Thank you!

[@cameronoconnor5364]

Brilliant man. Makes absolute sense, and I can relate to the way you are explaining it.

[@garyrutland1119]

Really enjoyed the last couple of minutes when you addressed the 'passionate, creative' issue. I struggle with over-reaction etc. and I'm really tired with that aspect of my personality. I'm also a fledgling writer and meditation practicioner and I was smiling when you did the gggrrrrr-thing cos that's so me (x 1000 unfortunately) and then nodded in agreement when you said how the 'passion' response never really helped things anyway. Anyway; that's my long-winded way of saying thank you.

[@purpledoo]

You are great! thanks a lot!

[@alexbecket7140]

I really enjoy the audiobooks! They are well read and entertaining and Brad has a great delivery style. I'm just now discovering this KZbin nonsense...More hand puppets please!

[@ddemon4406]

I'm on board with letting thoughts go. Certainly we hold irrational beliefs though that can be changed such as what Albert Ellis talks about. Do you take this into account at all?

[@HardcoreZen]

I'm not familiar with Albert Ellis.

[@aufopilot]

Just a dump Q. What about the western magickal experience and Zen? I've done meditation on and off from the time I was a kid. I've been serious about magick now for more than 8 years and I seen the reality of the western witch/occultist and I can see them saying,I know that we can sync our temporal lobe and produce the reality we want the client/student to see and they will believe in our reality for the time period that means something to us . Are their answers to the questions/experiences that the western metaphysics world give in Zen.

[@tragick93]

Thanks Brad. I needed to hear this.

[@fridsrikenileri1268]

I really do enjoy your videos Brad :), thanks for doing what you do :)

[@richardculbertson744]

This was really helpful Brad, thanks

[@djmileski]

I am on week three of no nicotine and what u described about what’s washing around the head is times ten for me. I’m really hoping my sanity comes back to me soon. It’s miserable to say the least and zen/mediation is blowing my brains in a bad way right now as is everything else 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Davidthemarathoner]

The cancer stress is unnecessary if the husband and wife actually learned how and knew how to question allopathy/oncology/big pharma etc, and to not submit to their toxic battery acid chemo garbage.

[@RobertBrett]

Thank you, Brad.

[@mantas9827]

Does this also apply to pain? Is sitting in pain and not moving beneficial to your practice in a way that your mind starts to go crazy and you can observe it in the midst of its craziness?

[@ilkkarosma5528]

Brilliant.

[@elvinblanco3428]

Thanks!

[@DavidFerguson62]

Fantastic as always.

[@nikkavarrow948]

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[@shaggytheshaman]

Love the "Dinosaur Attacks" box behind you... I have a whole box full of unopened booster packs! :D

[@HardcoreZen]

I AM NOT WORTHY!!!!!!

[@shaggytheshaman]

Haha it was the coolest Christmas present I've ever received... lemme dig them up and I will mail a handful of them out to you! I don't mind at all, your books have been a great source of entertainment and grounding in my life, it's the least I could do! :)

[@djmileski]

I’ll do it anyway

[@ProfB666]

Thanks.

[@nikkavarrow948]

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[@bartfart3847]

Just like Gilligan's Island

[@gotem370]

do you think zen makes you a complete and whole person? At times, its seems entirely to bogged down in abstractions and clever word puzzles that sort of create logical juxtapoistions and lead to more confusion than anything else and than zen says, good youre confused, now i've proved you don't have a self, go be a non self now