The Contemporary Training of a Zen Buddhist Monk

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Masaki Matsubara, PhD (Cornell, 2009, Asian Religions) is a scholar of Japanese Religions in the East Asia Program at Cornell University and also serves as an Adjunct Affiliated Chaplain at Cornell United Religious Work (CURW), as well as the Abbot of Butsumoji Zen Temple in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He specializes in the history and practice of Contemporary Japanese Rinzai Zen.
Brown University
Friday, April 19, 2019

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@RikuIshmaru 5 жыл бұрын

Video starts at 9:20

@bowen13 4 жыл бұрын

The real mvp right here

@mistermindahenziandalasnus3754 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@nhlakaniphomathunjwa7610 4 жыл бұрын

I second that Bowen,most valuable player 👊🏾

@alanarcher Жыл бұрын

Doing God's work

@davidkaufman671 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@chelsuh614 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this! Insightful and wonderful 😊

@reginadelgraal 3 жыл бұрын

Zen buddhism is amazing, especially when it teaches through wise, short stories: ↕️

@Magnulus76 3 жыл бұрын

Daoism saved a Zen master. Fascinating.

@MG-hx3ym 2 жыл бұрын

The woman at 1:07:00 is spot on. The martial attitude is a great tool and learning device to separate the wheat from the chaff within someone and get them straight and get proper habits developed, but eventually it does have to be regulated or let go in exchanged for a balanced method that includes compassion and loving kindness.

@richardalexander3 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@dreihochdrei 3 жыл бұрын

🙏🍀❤ Thank you!

@gabrieleschuler2756 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏 Thank you Matsubarasan. You habe given me so many anservs to my struggle in Zen Training in Japan. I wish you would give lectures in Europe.

@Nooneself 2 жыл бұрын

How wonderful he understoods meditation can have side effects. I've been teaching meditation for many years and its always discouraging to hear other instructors presenting meditation as a 100% safe practice.

@markgriskey 2 жыл бұрын

Sadhguru warns his followers of what might happen... The path to "Enlightenment" is not easy and it can turn your life upside-down

@markgriskey 2 жыл бұрын

Take breaks ... and come back to the practices as needed ;}

@AllendeEtAl Жыл бұрын

Hey what do you recommend for a safe Zazen practice? I've been following Katsuki Sekida book and so far so good, but I would like to know what to do to prevent or be alert to the possible side effects.

@rohlay00 Жыл бұрын

Nonsense, properly practiced meditation can only bring benefit. Of course, meditation can mean many things to different people...

@rohlay00 Жыл бұрын

@@markgriskey sadhhuru is a charlatan that teaches nothing and is but a word salad. I don't even know what he means by enlightenment. It has nothing to do with the buddhist term as he is politheistic and buddhism is non-theistic. Fundamental difference

@shubhamsonawane5597 2 жыл бұрын

thnks!

@gregoryford3531 2 жыл бұрын

As a man of few words, this is dedicated to those who would practice 'zazen': ' just two meters before you, at a glance - is the dropping off point'. Lax:Re. How much simpler can this be? Thanks for this upload.

@Leah-ny3tl 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 well this explains so much of the things I have gone through. Thank you for the video

@markgriskey 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice.

@godofzah Жыл бұрын

zen is like tea, its not ment to be spoken about, nor taught, nor learned just drink the tea

@bodhiheeren Жыл бұрын

So what have they been doing at the Zen monasteries? Just drinking tea? In fact some Zen treaties are deeply philosophical.

@SuminhtueMuitruonglong111 4 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@MrSomethingElse Жыл бұрын

Would anyone post a copy of the handout to go along with this? Much appreciated in advance....

@vork847 3 жыл бұрын

Anybody have a link to his handout?

@einarjungmann273 2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible attend Rinzai Zen temple at Japan?? (not Soto, I would like to go within Rinzai shu)

@spookybuk 3 жыл бұрын

Bald man from Saitama has immediate street cred nowadays. I'm just joining in, but thank you already for making this available.

@SuminhtueMuitruonglong111 4 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@Oi-mj6dv 2 жыл бұрын

The p'eng tsu description sounds incredibly close to shamata/jhana practice

@howardleekilby7390 8 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@matthewlloyd5420 3 жыл бұрын

Be light...water

@jonwesick2844 2 жыл бұрын

Seems like a great guy. I guess his Buddhist training must have worked.

@gxff5.5kviews41 8 ай бұрын

🎉

@alanarcher Жыл бұрын

29:55 sounds a lot like upacara-samadhi / access concentration

@karmalodro1593 3 жыл бұрын

He reminds me of ..,

@sanelaax3 4 жыл бұрын

16:35

@Ndo01 2 жыл бұрын

That Zen overeating tradition mentioned at 1:00:00 is truly bizarre.

@KevinLopez-rl6wq 3 жыл бұрын

Tuberculosis? Hasn't anyone ever heard of "lung imbalance" from the Tibetan tradition when someone meditates excessively/incorrectly? "Self induced neurotic breakdown" sounds like a correct description.

@dallasupton 2 жыл бұрын

feels ironic

@connorpenka5432 2 жыл бұрын

Wws

@Grasshopper567 2 жыл бұрын

I was in shock that a university would bring in a religious figure to talk, then he said social justice and i understood. My heart aches for the future of buddhism

@ObakuZenCenter 2 жыл бұрын

Grow up you sad little person.

@truueindeedi Жыл бұрын

Why

@kevc-69- Жыл бұрын

Yes because Zen is about seeing original face, social justice will begin thereafter.

@ethanfreeman1106 3 жыл бұрын

These people talk about the idea of Zen as if it's an idea that can be talked about. I think the first mistake was that they began talking about it without talking about the fact that they are talking about it, instead of first of all making the distinction that it fundamentally isn't an idea and therefore cannot be talked about adequately. Blah blah, you get the point.

@TheUltimateBlitz1 3 жыл бұрын

Also, humans basically cannot consciously act without the use of concepts, whether in sentence/language format or not. Even in meditation, one's brain uses concepts to draw attention to certain aspects of the mind and body it. The use of concepts helps the brain define what is part of a certain sensation, and where it is in one's space, and what is not. I think the larger problem with using language to understand or experience anything, including the practice, is that it simply denotes/refers to the practice in an approximate manner without embodying all aspects of it, ex. the feeling of air flowing through your nose.

@dingocapo2087 3 жыл бұрын

all that just to tell us hyour afacking moron!@!!!!!!

@alankuntz6494 2 жыл бұрын

That's just an idea? Is that your own idea or someone else s?

@bonnyd.5334 2 жыл бұрын

New Age Sewage.

@alankuntz6494 2 жыл бұрын

Beats old age sewage

@alankuntz6494 2 жыл бұрын

So what sewage is your favorite?

@edgepixel8467 3 жыл бұрын

Five years in zen training is nothing. An abbot, after 5 years? Preposterous!

@bodhiheeren Жыл бұрын

Ever heard about instant enlightenment? Time has no relation to spirituality. Some get it in a second others practice their whole life without getting it.

@TheStoicus 2 жыл бұрын

I would like to comment (for what it's worth), but I'm sure some people will dislike me for it. Now I have huge respect for zen, Rinzai zen, monks,etc... otherwise I would not watch this video. But I'm a little confused, this man is certainly not a sholar of university level in my opinion, I've had courses at the university (In Europe) but the academic level was 100 times higher than this. He doesn't even not go deep into his subject. No real insights, nothing original. The most interesting is when he doesn't read from his paper and talks a little of his own experience. But imho, that's not at an academic level at all. I have the feeling this is a bit like the emperor's clothes, people tend to admire him because he is a zen monk, not because of what he says. So I don't want to insult this man, I'm sure as a zen monk he achieved something, like Satori for example. And please don't give me this nonsense: "yes the message is simple, but with your western mind, you are not able to grasp it". I'm deep into zen en Christian contemplation, I have read dozens of books so I do have a notion of it, and I know that simple phrases can contain huge wisdom. I just mean, he practically does not seem to talk in depth about his subject, answers besides the questions that are asked,... It's just strange to me

@yoya4766 2 жыл бұрын

Does he claim to be a university level 'scholar'? Your comment isn't particularly university level either.