Someone in a hamsterwheel

That's a really great question, and one can spend one's life asking it. However, maybe more to the point is, "Who was I before?"

I rush to go to bed too. Our hustle and bustle lives give us hustle and bustle time. I can't stand this vicious cycle much longer.

you become like a zombie, a tool in the hands of a miserable society and world. rest. just rest.

We rush to work so we can accomplish “things”. We rush home from work so we can unwind from the stress we put ourselves under. We rush to our vacation place so we can relax and recharge. The wheel is an apropos symbol of our lives-our precious lives in the human world. We whirl around and around, yet rarely do we really reflect on inner goals. Such is the fate of sentient beings.

To practice Zen you have to generate the mind of great compassion - the Bodhi mind - and then just sit. This mind aspires to liberate all sentient beings from suffering and to take rebirth until this has been accomplished.

Zen is much more than slow mindful living but it is very difficult to express that using our limited language.

@@stanislawgruszczynski6442 What extra component does it add that isn't present in mindfulness or compassion alone?

@@Cathee.M. I think you’re right in saying mindfulness AND compassion. The compassion part is important, as so much of Buddhism (and I can only speak personally about Mahayana schools) comes out of the Buddha’s teachings on intent and ethics. I think it’s beautiful that many people today are trying to embrace mindfulness practices and other forms of meditation (such as loving-kindness, or “metta” meditations). But the Mahayana traditions also seek to another goal other than mastery of our own minds - we practice so that we can eliminate the barriers between ourselves and others, so that our minds get used to being stronger on their own, but also more loving, grateful, and forgiving towards others. A mindfulness practice on its own might not get that far if it’s not guided by an intention to recognize the causes of our own suffering and a desire to beat it and live the truest life and help others to do that too.

The thing is.....he's 100% correct. Even Sir David Attenborough describes humans as a 'plague' on this earth. Humans are destroyers of all things beautiful. The earth (flora and fauna) will heal and flourish when we are gone.

Yes, that jarred with me too.

@@ole01 Your comment does not make sense. Can you rewrite it?

@@ole01 You still are not clear in what you are saying. I will assume that English is your second lauguage though. If you can explain more clearly then I will then respond appropriately.

completely agree. I find very little wisdom in this video. Plenty of ignorance and narcissistic posturing.

thats beautiful, getting in the zen mood with millions in the bank so theres really nothing to worry about. I had a BS feeling even before watching the entire video

@@tormacsaba2211 Not exactly right, as he is spending mosts of that money on preserving nature and helping people meditate at his "monastary". I do believe he's genuinly trying to do good, living very simply, and not just "rich guy roleplaying monk". I just think that the info is an important addition.

@@Smoshfaaaaaaaaaaan good perspective, you might be right

Thanks Ryan, well said, I will read about kriya yoga and hatha yoga

You are hearing his words about humanity as nihilistic or negative, and seeing him retreat from life.... In fact he is saying that death is invevitable, as.a person or an entire community. This is the way of things. So our only choice is to control our fate with calmness and kindness. Your curiosity on this topic is part of the awakening .

very true! complete opposite of compassionate understanding empathic way of life which the zen buddhism preaches. he is the opposite of a zen buddhist...

@@paragozar you are ignoring his words about humasn being cancerous etc thats genocidal in its spirit

@James McBride well humans haven't in any way made this planet a longer lasting, more healthy system have they? The terminology might be a bit shocking, but the act of killing and destroying our planet for short term gain isn't exactly without its negativity. Maybe it's just so normalised it doesn't seem shocking anymore but for me it is the behaviour rather than the name of the behaviour that is the real issue.

He means cancer as we identified with the ego and make war with the self and with others not because we are humans.

and one day we can see the whole coin and not only one side.

But what is sadness?

I have never, ever, heard a zen master say Do not concern with right or wrong, don't try to change the world. What zen master says avoid compassion? What zen master does not experience on occasion, shame, worry, or have an opinion on moral issues? It seems you are thinking of zen masters in a comic book.

Dude, he's learning. What's next, you go and sit with the third year school students and lament that they weren't yet fluent in Spanish or accomplished mathematics professors? He's learning, he's trying, he's on his path. Maybe it'll be sensible to stop pretending that he is presenting himself as the finished product!

@@danw918 This. Every teacher on the path of Buddhdharma is also a student. He thought some depressed thoughts and then he said them into the recording device. Not a big deal.

He's concerned with the suffering and liberation of living beings. He is trying to live in a way to show and spread compassion to humans, animals, plants and the entire planet as a living system. To take note of how we humans are negatively affecting countless beings and causing needless suffering is simply a fact. If he's sad to see the suffering, say of the billions of animals tormented and killed in factory farms, that just means he's an alive, awake human. I would love to go practice with him at Felsentor!

Is this a riddle?!

This doesn’t answer your question directly, but this is one of the most beautiful and evocative lines from Eliot’s poem, the Four Quartets: “a condition of complete simplicity, costing no less than everything.” Those words seem to me to sum up the Goal.

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When one sincerely asks that question, then one if already a Buddhist. This person would suggest that you pick up a copy of "The Pillars of Zen," by Roshi Phillip Kapleau, and read it. It's an easy read, and will give one all the information one needs to make a solid start.

Formally, in most traditions it's when you receive the Three Refuges - the Buddha as example and in the form of an awakened, living teacher (who is also Buddha), the Dharma, as in reality instead of beliefs, and practice that comes out of awareness, and the Sangha, or those who you practice together with, as we do this practice with others and cannot do it entirely alone. At the same time, one also takes the Precepts, the touchstones of an awake, ethical life, from an authorized teacher. It's important to do this because it's an outer acknowledgement of something that's happened internally and helps set a direction for future practice and intent. It's also important to bear in mind that Buddhism, the Dharma, is not a belief system, beyond the initial one perhaps that anyone can do what the Buddha did, and as thousands have done since the Buddha, and wake up to and embody reality.

@@ObakuZenCenter Well said.

By not identifying as one or as anything that you put words onto.

@@gra6649 the Book one must read is in of them selves, the mind has all teachings. 🙏🙏🙏

The soul is an idea created by the ego , there is no self , we are one with everything , must spread loving kindness to all beings because all beings suffer or feel unsatisfactoriness in every life cycle , we must reach enlightenment and help fellow loving beings by understanding reality and spreading compassion. attachment to concepts , ideas and material things just brings more suffering and causes distress or hatred keeps a being in the cause and effect cycle in life

But you did, right? Lol. Wanna know how I know that you don't know fuck all what you're talking about? I shouldn't go to the youtube comments anymore.

@@tobiaskyon5383 ?

@@Kreidark !

that’s your interpretation. i see affection - which can go both ways: ease and dis-ease.

You become what you think

Definitely your interpretation. I see compassion :)

You have no idea what he's feeling, so why project?

I saw absolute peace and assurance. Maybe it's not your time yet.

@@ole01 sure.. who doesnt argue? but its not as prominent than these two. Try looking on youtube, zero. We are talking about majority. Also who are those people in the forums? Are they usually predominantly westerners? 🫢🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 something for you to reflect.

@@ole01 i know its not a religion, please go back to the main crux of your argument. 🤡