Best one yet! I’m going thru a divorce and this series is keeping me sane.

It´s nice seeing them being happy

Superb. While I’m not a “koan person” (at least from the perspective of formal koan training) this is one of the best explanations I’ve heard to date.

Brilliant! Really enjoyed that, thanks both 🙏

As someone once wrote (I can’t remember now who was it) seek the company and be in the company of people who are looking for the Thruth, but run away from those who claim they found it.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing? So that we get to watch this brilliant video 😄 How is that for an answer. Thank you for sharing Brad!

Really enjoying these conversations between you and Stephen Brad. Thank you.

Thanks Brad

Really neat one. Thought Stephen bringing up Heidegger after talking about Dogen so much was fitting, seeing as his other big work is "Being and Time"

Just wow!

As great book specifically dealing with this question is “The Grand Delusion” by Steve Hagen

Poetry is a remedy to the dictat of utility - it is an opportunity to listen with no goal - a taste of freedom from knowledge, fear and want. Koan being a much more sweaty way of giving up.

I disagree with Stephen, the book “I Am That” by Nisargadata, it’s a dialogue between lots of questions and answers. So it is no said that a question is necessary left without an answer. People who are into a living meditative practices as soon a question arises the answer usually is also there. However, if the mind will be in an intelectual set up then there will be just the questions and constructed philosophy through the intelectual.

Batchelor finds Dogen infuriating? Why does this not surprise me? Batchelor is one of these characters like Nishijima who wants to superimpose his own petty materialistic ideas onto Buddhism. As if Buddhism is whatever the hell he wants it to be. And Dogen wont let him do it...cry me a river!