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Zen Habits: Embracing Each Moment
Seminar_A_Sentient_World
The talk delves into the concept of organization within oneself, emphasizing how habitual acts and intentional pauses become integral to the practice of Zen. It explores the interplay between form, emptiness, and the habitual mind, suggesting that each moment, when fully embraced, can become akin to a perpetual vacation. The discussion touches on how practice involves recognizing the boundaries between form and emptiness, allowing reality to unfold without interference.
- Karma and Dharma: The differentiation between karma and dharma is highlighted, symbolizing the importance of understanding intentional actions versus natural laws in practice.
- Storehouse Mind: Alludes to the Buddhist concept of ālayavijñāna, examining how the underlying consciousness interacts with the organizing principle of the self.
- Quadrinity Practice: Mentioned as a potential practice alongside Zen or yoga, indicating the exploration of various methods for self-organization and realignment with wisdom.
The speaker underscores the significance of intentional practice, drawing attention to how ordinary actions, like stepping out the door or perceiving space, aid in realizing the continuous presence of emptiness intertwined with form. This approach challenges participants to experience life moment-to-moment, embodying a state of mindful awareness and openness.
AI Suggested Title: Zen Habits: Embracing Each Moment
Feel 1, 0, 2, 0, 3, or even just 1, 0, 1, 0, 1. You could be a little pause. 1, 0, 2, 0. This is a way to illustrate. This is practice. This is continuity. And it's just an intentional, volitional moment. Which finally becomes just a habit. Okay. Okay. Leave that up, people say, what?
[01:03]
You could draw a car lift. So that people would think it was karma. Instead of actually dharma. Anything else? Yes. Is there a relationship between pauses and humor? I hope so. There's definitely a relationship between pauses and puns. Because punning arises when you hear the sound of the word and not the meaning of the word.
[02:08]
But I hope... Yeah, we'll see. I don't know what keeps me laughing. Okay, anything else? Yeah. I have a question. Now we ended with pausing, and somehow I started coming here with pausing my beautiful, and in between there was... quite a bit of trying to organize myself and all that was going on with me. And this organizing was a little bit like searching for support, searching for the shifting views. And with organizing myself, searching on,
[03:11]
and I try to understand what's organized. Is that a function of the cell, or is that a function of the storehouse mind? Or is it actually a kind of mechanism? What is this organized myself? Where can I relay that to? Deutsch, bitte. Well, when I decide to practice with stepping out the door with the foot nearest the hinges,
[04:32]
That's organizing myself. When I try to plan my year so I have a vacation, that's organizing myself. As long as there's form, there's organization. We have to live in a practical way. But we can use that need to organize our time to organize our wisdom, to open ourselves to wisdom. So, you know, you start out doing something like knowing you need a break. So you take a seminar. Or go on a vacation. And you decide, Zen, yoga, or quadrinity practice? Which is going to be more relaxing?
[05:35]
Which costs less? And after a while, whether it's a seminar or a vacation, or looking out the window and identifying your mind with space, and realizing the sky doesn't start up there, the sky starts right here, you begin to find you have the feeling of being on vacation all the time.
[06:37]
Each moment feels like a vacation. If I were to draw that, that's serious. It would be So we still have numbers. Yeah, let's call them all ones. But each one's surrounded by a circle. And yet, somehow, this one projects a three. This one projects a two. And that one projects a one. So after a while, it doesn't feel like you're saying one, zero. One and zero are the same.
[07:42]
And sometimes you turn that one into a three. But you withdraw it back to one and to zero. It really is something like that. And if you have a conceptual grasp of it, And you keep practicing with like identifying your mind with the sky or with the space when you look out the window. Or every time you go upstairs or downstairs. You feel you bring yourself to your breathing. Or stepping out of a door.
[08:47]
At some point, this pause begins to become the moment itself. And it becomes that not because you practice so hard, It becomes that because that's what it really is. And you stop interfering with reality. You find that each moment is simultaneously form and simultaneously non-graspable and emptiness. If that's not a good place to stop, I don't know anything about Buddhism. So, thank you very much for this weekend. And your participation in discussion and questions.
[09:58]
And for your toleration of the new translator. Yeah. And I wish Ulrike were here so we could thank her, but it was kind of nice that she slipped out during the president. It's a pity that Ulrike had to leave like that, otherwise we could have thanked her, but it's still good that she got out like that.
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