Unsui Talks on THE SONG OF THE JEWEL MIRROR SAMADHI (Hōkyō Zammai)

[Kyotai]

Baby eve and I, sitting on the bed and enjoying your talk.

Thank you Kyonin

Gassho Kyotai


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[Tairin]

Thank you Kyonin. That was a wonderful talk. I appreciate your insights into these passages.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Mp]

Hey folks,

Here is my second talk on the Hokyo Zammai. Below is the section I will be covering ...

The teaching of thusness has been intimately communicated by buddhas and ancestors.
Now you have it, so keep it well.
Filling a silver bowl with snow, hiding a heron in the moonlight -
Taken as similar they're not the same;
When you mix them, you know where they are.

As you can see, there is a lovely hidden teaching the beauty of thusness. Thank you for listening and I hope my talk is intimately comminicated. =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbX4d_l6Kxc&feature=youtu.be

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Kevin M]

Wonderful talk and insight on the Hokyo Zammai. Thank you Shingen.



PS I agree about the human connection that is possible online. I can watch a Zazenkai recording and still feel I'm there. I even wave at the camera if the situation calls for it. So the Zazenkai experience is being transmitted across space and time and yet I still feel present and connected to the attendees at some level. Cool. Also, yes dogs in particular seem to embody pure trust, loyalty, joy. Given evolutionary and cosmological context, animals like cats and dogs truly are just brothers.

Gassho,
Kevin
ST

[Kyotai]

I found this talk very helpful in breaking things down in a way I could clearly understand. Thank you Shingen.

Gassho Kyotai
ST

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[Kyonin]

Thank you Shingen. I'll watch it tonight.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Washin]

So beautiful and insightful. Thank you, Shingen

Gassho,
Washin
sat-lah

[Tai Shi]

I am an old man. I am 68 on September 11, and I was born this year-- 1951. My body falls away, the five senses diminishing. What I have is "mind" so freedom withstands nothing. I sit in freedom from mind-- I am nothing. Young people, Buddhist, Christian, Chang, Zen, Daoist, Muslim, Jew, Zulu, no one sees, hears, feels, smells, tastes an old man-- Young pass him by-- they do not see the old man thinking he is used up, his body worthless, his writing, thought nothing. What he has left is far beyond his bones, his lips, his classical Japanese flute, his Bali dancing high atop young volcano which he left behind at age 50, so my body no longer makes sound because marks of mathematics, poetry, wisdom in careful thought out is what I have left-- mind is nothing to young who wish to jot their passions, this old man lingers in the doorway inviting the young to visit his, his old partner, who they may lose at any step, living with death, sickness of body, loneliness, this young the young stammer in any language bound by custom, so with babes request in nothing, this the old see, hear, feel, smell, taste, but these fail as body fails, so death we make as friend, not birth. This is not the young wisdom of losing, wisdom of loss, this is the sixth-- mind. This I thus, body in moon light with bird above, upon, beneath, all around earth and water. We all grow old, even earth in black galaxy. We are all one as we pass through babe, child, young, mid- mid age, old man and death, all as Our teachers show us, we are one coming ultimately even mind falls, "the center cannot hold." "An old man" is but a paltry thing-- Yeats said it, unless soul clap it's hands and sing. Even then, jottings in air, all of us, even rocks fall apart, leaving dust-- we are all together.
Tai Shi
calm poetry
sat/lah
Deep Bows to Kyonin, Shingen
For your excellence.
Gassho

[Tairin]

Thank you Shingen. I was finally able to sit down and listen to your talk.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Kyonin]

Hi my dear sangha!

Finally here is part 7 of my series of talks on the Hokyo Zanmai. Today we'll be talking about these lines:

It is like the six lines of the illumination hexagram:
relative and ultimate interact -
Piled up, they make three, the complete transformation makes five.
It is like the taste of the five-flavored herb, like a diamond thunderbolt.
Subtly included within the true, inquiry and response come up together.

The I Ching hexagram we will be talking about is Li:



Please take a moment to contemplate it and then in the talk I'll explain what it means.

Also, please forgive my bad English. That morning my coffee hadn't done its glorious caffeine thing with my mind

https://youtu.be/EIu1hOOuSsI

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Tairin]

Thank you Kyonin. I was fascinated with the I Ching when I was in my twenties and your talk had me dig out my books. Turns out I have 3 different translations of the I Ching. Still fascinates.

Your comments on the taste of the five flavoured herb struck a chord with me.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Kotei]

Thank you Kyonin,
again, I am amazed, how much you're able to deepen my understanding.
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Jakuden]

Deep gratitude dear brother, I now see how the pieces and the whole are just the same.

Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH


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[DGF]

Thank you kyonin, for this beautifull beyond and clear explanation. I found this helpfull.

Gassho
Diana
Sat-lah