Seek nothing, just sit: Life in a Zen monastery

Great Zen documentary film 🙏🙂

Small cursor sitting
In the hush of the white screen
Waiting without want

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damn! the drama. loved it.

Our hearts are restless until they rest in God.

Ótimo documentário.

What's up with the cursor? ❤

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Everything we value is empty 🙏🏻
Less is more
Be a minimalist
Zazen is good for nothing
Let go, or be dragged

These are some of my favourite zen sayings :))

I will say a little about my situation as this documentary was very illuminating. In my heart I can feel my seeking for something, that distortion and delusion. I was a soto zen Buddhist for several years and also practised in a zen monastery for a month on a retreat. At that time, suddenly I awakened to my inner voice. After having several satoris I accepted that my time there had come to an end and left the same way I had came.
In my life, I still love zen and infact I felt when I encountered Jodo Buddhism the feeling was indescribable. It's like I rediscovered it again.
My soul rejoiced and I've followed it ever since. In Jodo Shu we say once we are embraced by Amida Buddha we are never abandoned. I am sure that in a previous life I entrusted myself to Amida but was not ready until this life to fully accept the teachings 🙏🏻
It's interesting they arrive in the temple and they have the same questions I suppose I did and we all can have. What is the meaning of life, why do we suffer, etc?
In my view, both of these questions though they may appear different are the same. They are connected.
What is the meaning of life for me is to follow the Buddha's teachings.
Why do we suffer for me it's because we do not follow the Buddha's teachings 😂
The more I follow the Buddha's teachings the less I suffer. As a Jodo Shu Buddhist it's ok to be a lay person, we don't need to be a monk to follow the teachings wholeheartedly.
Though in zen perhaps that is not the case.
I live my life meaningfully and with gratitude. There are times when I feel upset, or seeking, etc. But, I just recognise those feelings hopefully quickly and accept them 😂
Thanks for reading
May all beings be healthy and whole.

There is no path

Balance must be 🙏🏼

It strikes me that; most of these folks are here at the monastery seeking "something". How does that square with the claims that Zen teaches "nothing"?

Salute to these monks away from life trying to search and fimd the truth.... Could. U pls share the experience of zen practitioners who could say that they have succedeed kn what they set out to do... Pls. Help. And support in knowinh this, it will help for people tp set out on this path, thanks🙏

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Zen Buddhism is gift for world 🙏

so sad to hear these boys left the training before they were finished. May be they would ha e done better another abbot.

frogs are sitting all their life and don't get enlightened )

Great Britain

Many thanks for this video as i found it fascinating and very informative.

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There is no spoon

As someone who practice Zen Buddhist meditation, I really appreciated the documentary. I think Hirotada should do the same thing as Buddha did, looking for his answers than go back to his kids as a monk, as a father or maybe both.

"Before attempting to move the mountains, learn to move the breath in your lungs"
-Taoist Wisdom

Thank you ❤

I want to practice; how can I enroll for it ?

Indian Buddhism has seen it all. There end came when Islam killed them or converted them.

Koszonom , hogy lathattam hogyan elnek a szerzetesek. Magyarországról

Name of song in beginning

Cursur is not the problem…your mind is….

So just meditate and do chores all day?

Somehow sad, these young monks, searching for something in nothingness. When I was in the pain of my life at the dentist, the dentist briefly stroked my forehead with her finger. After that, I could endure all the suffering in the world. I wish the monks could experience that. Touch from outside, so in a metaphorical sense, of course. Perhaps that's a miracle.

ist mein beitrag gelöscht worden? ich hatte über bewegung und bedeutung geschrieben.

Thanks!

This was beautiful … I unlearned allot and learned allot… this might be the way for me. ✌️🤍🙏

The fact that you are commenting on a cursor just like I am means we’re distracted. It’s ok, but just know that we’re asleep in that moment. If you know what’s sleeping you know what’s being awake.

If you’re lucky this comment might save you decades of seeking enlightenment. Did you ever stop and think that you’ve never been fully conscious? Don’t meditate or take mushrooms, just look around right now, just stare at things for 1 minute without thinking. This should be much easier than meditation because you have more to observe. Are you done? If you’re not stop reading because when you try the thought of the intent or expected outcome will disturb you when you do. Are you done? Just 1 minute. Done? Ok. Now tell me, what did you notice that needs to be done? When was the last time you thought about it? When next were you going to think about it? YOU ARE LITERALLY ENLIGHTENED JUST BY LOOKING. You are not going to see Buddha, Jesus, a ball of light but you will know what to do. Infact it’s impossible to not know what to do if you JUST look. Even an idea or some future decision in your mind. It’s allowed to visiualize outside the present as long as you’re intending to do something about it now. Have you been indecisive about something. Visualize it all. Why? I don’t know that’s the point just look at it. Don’t think, just look. This is too easy. If you say “what should I do?” you will never know, just visualize what you’re trying to decide. Don’t say anything in your mind, just look at it, are you done?decide NOW! Don’t think whether you have the decision or not 😂 you see that’s your problem. Just decide, and not just randomly, this isn’t majic, make the appropriate conscious decision, there’s only one, never ever 2. Yes you know it, just look. Do you see it? That is the highest level of enlightenment. You’ve always had it and you turn it on for a few seconds once in a while. Now that you know it, just continue staring at your life with no judgement or emotion or opinion ALLOWING (not trying-you are the action) what needs to be done to be done. and start doing everything you’ve ever wanted. Lazy? Just look at that thought? Oh it’s just a thought, I actually have way too much energy (literally). Indecisive? No you’re not, just a thought. There’s only one choice so what are you choosing? Unless it’s any, but if there is a choice to be made it’s only one and it’s as obvious as that phone you’re holding, you just never looked because you thought you you have to calculate, process or brainstorm. Guess what, there is no such thing as thinking or mental processing LITERALLY. All you do is look with your mind then your ego says you created the idea. As long as you think you did create the idea you were dreaming that whole time you “thought” and you were stuck in delusion. But if you were just looking, whether with your eyes or your mind, just looking, then you were enlightened in that moment and the clarity is evidence. Sorry that’s it. That’s enlightenment. No superpowers. But just being a human living consciously is more probably more powerful than all the superpowers you were imagining. Real time clarity inspiring real time flow (whether solutions or opportunities). AI will NEVER reach that level of consciousness you have. Wake up. If you made it here and you simply heard what I said (not understand) but actually heard what I said then Welcome to the real world. Where you always know what to do. Here’s the catch, don’t do shit if you don’t know why? I feel like it is not a reason. I think Bla Bla is not a reason. Not why as in why are you doing it or is it profitable or ethical, just basically what is the result of this action period. You’ll be surprised how many things you do on autopilot. Possibly everything. That’s why scientists say 90% of your actions are determined by your subconscious (unconscious) as in not intentional . Yes, crazy huh? Google it. Now you know what enlightenment is. You literally no longer have a choice but to live fully just by looking. That’s the crazy observer effect. If you don’t look at it it doesn’t exist. No consciousness no life. I’m not saying ignore problems to make them disappear. There is no problem, just life. Look at it and live. I do not wish you to have physical or financial complications but if you do don’t give them those names just look at them with no emotion and you will have more clarity. Bending reality is bullshit, but clarity is always available and extremely underrated. Don’t let it be corrupted by calling it silly names like enlightenment or awareness. That’s just fancy poetry. No supernatural powers, no telepathy or prophesy, just real time existence flowing the way it’s supposed to flow.

The West is so desperate for the spiritual fulfillment that these mfs will travel to the other side of the world just to get a particle (a really really really small percentage) of what the Eucharist and the Catholic Church alone can fulfill 😢

Watching this, it's not about the Buddha; it's about the People in the Communities. When they Give, they Give out of their Hearts; so, as an outside observer, the Buddhist is responsible for those who they ask from. Obviously the Buddhist doesn't discriminate, so they're responsible for everyone they come across?

There are no rules, there are only results.

El Zen tiene un problema con hacer que estés una hora sentado, a la media hora ya están contando los minutos para levantarse. Una tortura.

Can you tell me how to join the zen course

If you want to sit on a cushion staring at a wall trying to empty your mind, Hey, whatever knocks your socks off. Cuz I realized I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

Thanks NHK and this channel for passing it on.

"Be Here Now," aka "Be present." and "In stillness all things can be known." - Steps to Knowledge. Quotes are fun! Thank you!