Do you have the tape for the chanting? Do you play? Rick had taped some of the... Better speaker would sound pretty good, probably. Hmm? Pardon me? A zendo rap. A zendo rap. I put on these robes because I seldom wear robes in Europe, and I especially seldom wear these kind of robes. But as you may know, the Haus der Stille asked me to do the Wesak sort of talk ceremony this year. So I brought the kind of robes you do ceremonies in. I usually call them my party dresses. But they're nice to wear sometimes.

[01:01]

Would you take me out to dinner in Berlin? The first year I was ordained, Sukhriyasi asked, virtually required me to wear them robes all the time for a year in every circumstance. And in 1967, or whenever it was, In cowboy towns in California, it was quite an event. Okay. I trust what we're doing together.

[02:42]

And trust what I'm teaching. And partly I trust what I'm teaching because I trust you. And so much of what I'm doing comes from you, actually. But I'm still trying to think seriously and carefully about how we continue this practice here in Europe. And you may be a little bored with my saying this so often. But I really want you to understand you're not just passive recipients of teaching I'm bringing from some other place.

[03:44]

And this is all a new ball game, as we'd say in the States. Do you have a phrase like that? No. It's in the ballpark. It's a new ball game. Anyway, what would you say that's equivalent? I would just say it's a new game. Oh, yeah, new game. Well, that's... But, yeah, it depends what you mean by game. And the Tibetan teachers and the Japanese and Korean teachers and Vietnamese teachers and somebody like myself, who is a second-generation teacher, we're... We're all doing something that no one's done before.

[04:59]

Which is teaching adept practice in a fairly public way. And that's... that's happening because you're capable of adept practice. So anyway, I'm trying various things and some of you have asked me what this koan seminar is going to be. week-long Koan seminar is going to be like, preceding the Sesshin? And, you know, I really don't know.

[06:01]

We'll have some combination of sitting and study and discussion. And mainly it's just I'm trying out a way I can spend more time with you. And I'm also doing two weekends in a row in the week in between at Rostenberg outside of Vienna. I've considered looking into a place in Holland as one place I know of some possibility and anywhere else where we might have a slightly larger gathering.

[07:12]

That's partly because I don't like to keep saying no to so many people. On the other hand, this is quite nice size. And I like this place and Frank and Angelica and sort of very much. So I kind of hate to move. I'd still, if we did something somewhere else too, I'd still come here. And on the other hand, I like this place so much and I like Frank and Angelica so much that I would not like to move. And so I would definitely still come here. And also we'll do a precept seminar again this year, in which some people will probably take, or already have asked to take the precepts.

[08:18]

And we might do... Michael's and Eric and Christina's lay ordination ceremony in the week koan seminar. And it could be that we do the lay ordination of Christina, Eric and Michael during this week's koan seminar. So anyway, I'm bringing this up just to say I want your ideas about what forms we can practice together. So I'm trying something out, like the precept seminar, More than a week at Rastenberg and the two weeks here in the fall.

[09:32]

And continuing the two sessions and seminars. That may be enough. I guess the difference from a few years ago, a couple years ago or three years ago, is I'm giving very few public lectures. And more and more the seminars, and especially the sessions, are people I'm practicing with regularly and you're practicing with regularly. And for me, this is my preference too, I much prefer to practice with people I'm getting to know more and more than to do big public teaching or small public teaching or so forth. And now that we have three physical objects we own together, two umpans, one which I'm mounting on the hood of the Volvo,

[10:52]

And this rather wonderful board actually of, now I'm talking positively about it, of these Buddha and the Sangha. I don't know what to do with these. We have no place to, anybody want to care for them? Maybe we can leave it here as a kind of loan. We could do it, sure. We can also use it, we could have a relay race and one person could carry it to Bremen and somebody else could carry it to Berlin. LAUGHTER Yes, we could perhaps consider whether to leave it here as a loan first in the house of silence or in a kind of series run from one seminar to another. Yes. When Dungsan transmitted his teaching to Saushan, his disciple, and although both Sukharsin and myself wanted to practice really Zen Buddhism more independent of schools,

[12:42]

And Suzuki Roshi instructed me to study both schools of Zen and also Tantrism. But still the central stream of our lineage comes through Dung Shan and Sao Shan. Which also happens to be the more tantric side of Zen teaching. Anyways, when... Dung Shan met with Sao Shan, he said about Yun Yan, his teacher.

[14:02]

Yun Yan. I was sealed by the jeweled mirror samadhi. Yunyan sealed me with the jeweled mirror samadhi. Now I seal you. And then Chendang comments. Isn't this the rooster crowing among the forest of houses? Isn't this the crane growing old with the pine tree among the clouds? Then he says something quite strange.

[15:04]

Isn't this the jade machine? Weaving... The jade machine weaving... weaving it all together.

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