"Shine the light inwards" reminded me of "Be lamps unto yourselves." Perhaps the Buddha meant that more literally than people usually think.
@stewartdorward1606
4 жыл бұрын
I look forward to these over my morning coffee.
@garad123456
4 жыл бұрын
Arent you afraid Brads flying hands will knock over your coffee
@HardcoreZen
4 жыл бұрын
@@garad123456 HA!
@alimcgill2497
4 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@zenaudio108
4 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this one. Thank you!
@dallasdandigitalproduction393
4 жыл бұрын
fascinating monologue here . I like when you were discussing you were trying to remember a scene from Godzilla and you couldnt. I had the exact opposite experience this week. I saw a really graphic horror movie, and for 3 days scenes from it would flood my brain through out my day.It was a reminder that I need to be mindful of what i feed my computer, because it fuels emotions and affects my day. Namaste and aloha...
@lorenacharlotte8383
4 жыл бұрын
Very profound Dogen insight. Thank you Brad.
@Pidirects
4 жыл бұрын
we don't have total control of what arises, but what arises is generally the mind trying to achieve an equillibrium which is why it is so important not to think ill of yourself or other, what arises is an indication of where our attention has been (where we have gotten hooked) and the recognition reminds us we have been clinging and we can let go
@EvanBerry.
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Brad -- In sort of a counterintuitive way it's comforting to me to think of my thoughts as not always my own, in the sense that I needn't reify them or believe them, and yet it can be so difficult to just let them come and go without doing exactly that, even if I don't want to. Goodness knows how many times I've made things worse by trying to fix what wasn't even broken, simply because I happened to believe it was. I think your videos and books have helped me to get through this pandemic. My very own copy of Embracing Mind should arrive this weekend, so I'm very eager to follow along. (My apologies for another long comment.)
@HardcoreZen
4 жыл бұрын
I'm glad to be of service!
@m.barron5630
4 жыл бұрын
Know thy self/no self . Gassho.
@c.a.t.732
4 жыл бұрын
Apropos of nothing, but as a gardener I'm somewhat fascinated by the wall in the background with the multiple tree-trunks. It not only looks a bit like Angkor in miniature, but creates the impression of some sort of ivy tree(s), which I don't think are a thing. Oh, and enjoyed your talk also!
@HardcoreZen
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I think it is ivy.
@c.a.t.732
4 жыл бұрын
@@HardcoreZen If those multiple trunks are indeed ivy, that's the biggest I've ever seen. Could it be some sort of mutant ivy? Maybe the aliens irradiated it with one of their fiendish rays? Best beware!
@dhtm3577
4 жыл бұрын
Nice. Gassho. 🙏
@ethanjohnson4130
4 жыл бұрын
It's interesting how zen buddhism and advaita corroborate each other
@HardcoreZen
4 жыл бұрын
They're very similar.
@airbornepizza
3 жыл бұрын
The mind makes thoughts like saliva glands make saliva.
@massimonatalini7784
3 жыл бұрын
Ciao dalla italia..la tua permanenza in monastero giapponese..ha cambiati qualche cosa nella tua spiritualita'...oppure solo nelle tue opinioni sullo zen?
@markbrad123
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe there is unified cone point where nothing begets everything as Dogen said 'the mind can not grasps itself' . Interesting puzzle for you : kzitem.info/news/bejne/zqiMzW19hmeZaoY
@TheSamerai
4 жыл бұрын
What part of your brain is judging your thoughts as they happen ? Thoughts seem to arise from a part of the brain that we are not aware of.
@michaellyle8769
4 жыл бұрын
I'm going to be singing the Jet Jaguar song all night now.
@HardcoreZen
4 жыл бұрын
That's a great song!
@michaellyle8769
4 жыл бұрын
@@HardcoreZen I have the "punch punch puch" sampled.
@HardcoreZen
4 жыл бұрын
@@michaellyle8769 The best part!
@shanesullivan460
4 жыл бұрын
I may not know exactly what you're thinking, but as anyone who's ever experienced puberty will tell you, we don't always understand our own thoughts and feelings either. So if that's a prerequisite for personhood, no wonder Buddhists say there's no self!
@HardcoreZen
4 жыл бұрын
That's an interesting observation. Thanks!
@tmc232
4 жыл бұрын
Brad, the link to Letters to a Dead Friend doesn't work. Just fyi
@HardcoreZen
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I'll fix that.
@TheJedynak
4 жыл бұрын
The Bible. I mean the book, not the alien series.
@bobbi2044
4 жыл бұрын
dude...zen teachers these days read all these new age zen books from teachers; which is divorced of traditional buddhism. it's like replacing suttas and sutras with ch'an banter. with slogans and dogma. then zen teachers give lectures on other teachers lectures and dogma; which has more to do with book sales and popularity. like TNHinc...it becomes something else. I promise you, you're not really the entire universe. that's just some tricky crap some famous zen teacher said that became fashionable. it's like drinking mud thinking it's coffee. you can be avalokiteshvara though.
@osip7315
4 жыл бұрын
brad that's totally weird, kobun drowned trying to save his daughter from drowning (she also drowned) in a swiss swimming pool, at least that's one interpretation, chino was a known depressive he couldn't swim himself "one bright pearl" has its 'spikes', beware
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