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Talk At ZCLA
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This talk was supplied by the Zen Center of Los Angeles, from their digitization efforts in the early 2010s, from original cassettes of the time. The talk is short, and not especially formal.
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The talk reflects on the practice of Zen and the pursuit of understanding one's true nature. It highlights the story of Tozan and the discourse around the challenges of escaping the dualities of hot and cold, symbolizing life's challenges. The speaker emphasizes the importance of experiencing one's original nature and understanding that it is inherent, just as the conditions of hot or cold are unavoidable. The narrative encourages embracing one's true essence rather than seeking to escape from life's difficulties.
- Tozan and Not Hot or Cold (Koan): This Zen koan serves as a central theme, illustrating the idea that all conditions (symbolized by hot and cold) are intrinsic and unavoidable, prompting introspection into one’s original nature.
- Original Nature (Zen Concept): The talk explores the principle that one's true essence is constant and unchanging, akin to environmental states which are experienced universally.
- Buddha’s Name and Indictment: Mentioned as symbolic of what one attains through practice, reinforcing the notion that enlightenment is tied to realizing and accepting one's fundamental nature.
AI Suggested Title: Embracing the Essence Within Us
visit here, just to say hello to you. I have no intention of making a show listening access. So, please take easy question. And my voice is not clear, and I have some difficulty. I will talk right now because the proof is very delicious. I have been suffering from it for maybe six years, more than six months. Can you hear me? Okay, thank you. I was, I am very impressed across your sincere practice here and to see so many students.
[01:15]
And I know that my disciples prays when it goes to the testament. Salam Street. Salam Street. This is the first time for me to visit the end of year. And as your help, everything is set up very well. And I found this place more convenient. Maybe a kind of proof of my weak practices.
[02:25]
I am very much ashamed of my When my spirit is here, I don't cough. But as soon as I'm excited or impressed by something, I start to cough. Maybe emotional. I cough. I know that. But if I start to talk, Sometimes I could be very emotional. And soon as I become emotional, I start to cough.
[03:29]
I shouldn't be coughed, but it can't be helped. mostly in San Francisco for 10 years. And after San Francisco is an international city, I can see many, I see many people from various parts of America and eating from various countries. And I haven't been to any country other than
[04:41]
and most of time I stay at San Francisco. So something I know, there is something I know, that is about Japanese way of practice and your way of practice in California. And with this limitation, I Maybe I can express our criticism, not criticism, but appreciation about their practice.
[05:58]
And maybe as we are studying sincerely, so it is maybe better to have to be straightforward and to have complete communication with each other. And that is actually why I came to America. Today it is so hot that I will talk about something, then story, which you, which most of you know, I think, the coven, a story of thousand things.
[07:16]
And and his disciples. And its subject is called Tozan and not hot or cold. Actually, when the story goes like this, a monk came from Tosan. I will skip that. I should tell you more about Tosan than he himself, but I will not refer to his character, but he was a great
[08:17]
And what he obtained is very high quality of service. And accordingly, his disciple is also a very well-trained monk. A monk, you know, It is very hard. How is it possible to be ready? how we can escape from this husband.
[09:36]
So then they say, why don't you go where there is no husband caught? Why don't you go somewhere where it is not caught? That is very good question and answer. very meaningful. And the question and answer here, like, do you know what? Who knows it, lesser in Japan, pressure to fight, drink, for fifteen and fifteen power, equal power.
[10:45]
It is very difficult to know which will win so fast. But if you, you know, When wrestlers fight, two powerful wrestlers fight, they should be very careful when they start to attack. If carefully start to attack, that attack will cause failure. Well, it was very difficult to say one more word to his disciple. But as he is a disciple, he should say something more.
[11:53]
So, after all, he decided to say, where could he be? Place where there is no hot. Cold. At last, you take a ton of things. Cold food. Finally, cold. You should be cold food. Cold. Finally, hot. You should be hot. That's all. Death. And why I talk about it is a practice. We have many young people.
[13:13]
We have had maybe 72, 3, 5. We have been even in ages. And most people to seek for some religious spirit, power. I understand why I think, not completely by curiosity, but by most people expect something from them, from them, from them, like, young people, from them, [...]
[14:43]
They want to escape from the husband. But when we say, like now, God or us, I mean, when it is called, wherever you go, it is called. But it is not true in America. When it is very called in South Africa, it will come.
[15:47]
understand it, you see. Then what? So, sorry, it's not so easy for you, for me. Because you have easy, especially nowadays, if you rise to the three hours, you and you completely separate. So, but when we, when so-don't say, why don't you go? It is exactly, it is the cause. Means, wherever you can go, it is the cause. That is that, that is what you do. Isn't that? If you make fire, it is the cause. Isn't that? Hey, who is this?
[16:53]
This is a good call. This is a good call. This is another one. It's me. Ah. Hmm. Buddha's name is everyone, indictment, which you will obtain by your practice. But what you obtain is what you experience is your original nature. Everyone has original nature. Like wherever you go, it is a cold.
[17:54]
Everyone has a cold. Wherever you go, you will fight. You have a cold. So it is not, it does not mean cold or cold. So it doesn't mean original nature. Now it is called, and here there is rule nature, original nature. But original nature does not act as something which you shall not. and expedient in terms of good and bad, right and wrong.
[18:57]
So how is it possible to be true and so deep to escape from? Meaning, to find our true nature, Bye.
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