I showed you how to sit zazen yesterday. I told you to risk your life to do zazen. You should risk your life to concentrate with your breathing. it is difficult to say whether this is a proper expression to understand the absolute of our existence. Actually, everybody expresses always such an expression, such a situation that you risk your life to do something.

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But this is very natural. So we are apt to be very hard to pay attention to it. As a matter of fact, each of your actions, each of your actions risk your life. to do it. A fireman risked his life to save a person from burning a house. At that time, He doesn't think whether he risks his life to save, to save him from burning house.

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So the true meaning of risking one's life to do something is to forget, to forget to risk one's life to do something. So Dogen Zenji said, you should train as if you are setting your head from burning, from burning. This is a very expression to understand the absolute of our existence.

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While in thinking, that you are risking your life to do something, exists some fear or some pleasure, some fear that I have to risk my life to do something. And the pleasure, that I am risking my life to do something. So from this point there exists, no, here is dualism, I and something which you risk

[05:01]

but you risk your life. So the true meaning of risking your life is to forget to risk your life. So Dogen Zenji said, you should do something like saving your burning head. burning your head, you think, you think where the fire comes from. As soon as the fire set on your head, you said, ouch. As soon as you said ouch,

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you want to take away your fire, the fire. So there is no room to think, to think that I am risking my life to saving my head from burning. What's more, Dogen Zenji show us very good word. It is Zen Kigen in Japanese. Zen Kigen which means the manifestation, manifestation of full functions, full functions.

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So not only human, human life, everything possesses the expression of full functions. So even this, even this, has the expression of full functions. Even a piece of paper possesses the absolute expression of full functions. So Dogen Zenji called it Zen Kigen in Japanese. Zen is the whole. Ki is opportunity. Gen is manifestation or expression.

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Kyōsaku or stick for hitting you. has the expression of its own full functions. That's why even though you are hit by Zen Master, you will not be agree with him. You put your hand in that place, you want to put your hand together and pay respect to him with gassho. Because a stick itself possesses the manifestation of its own full functions,

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So, even Zen master, when even Zen master use a stick before hitting you, Zen master, he make bow to you with holding a stick like this. Even after hitting you, he did so again. At this time, you can, you can leave, you can leave the full function, the full function of the stick, which which it possesses in itself.

[10:58]

So, not only a stick, everything which you are using, in human circumstances possesses the expression of full functions. That's why we have to take care of it with care, carelessness, and with sincerity. and with kindness. This is an important point to study Zen Buddhism. The first point. So, a learned Christian should exist for sitting meditation.

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for us, not for sleeping, not for sleeping in the place of your pillows. When you understand, when you understand the full expression, manifestation of full function, which everything possesses in itself. You can, you can naturally, you can naturally use everything with care, with sincerity, with kindness. So Dogen Zenji said, you should put on,

[13:34]

you should put on the place where everything should be. For example, the glass of cup. Here is a glass of cup. Not made by wood. If you put on the glass cup, no, if you put on the glass, put the glass on the high place, on a high place, you afraid, you afraid it may be fall down, it may be fall down and break, broken.

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So, it is important for us to put on, put on the lower place of which it is easier to break. If it were wooden things, it is alright to put it on a higher place, high place. So Dogen Zenji said, you should put something on where a thing should be.

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We can take your posture of your zazen. For example, wherever you go or wherever you walk on the street, almost people walk on the street like this. Most people walk on the street as if he was looking for something. So the shoulder in the back, your back below your shoulders, make a round. this is this is very bad for your health or very bad for your back itself in itself because you doesn't

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you doesn't leave, you doesn't leave your back in the proper situation. So your back is, it should be straight always. Whatever Wherever you go, even though you have more money, even though you have, you have something, if, if you walk on the street with straightening, straightening your back, This attitude, this attitude will brighten your life and toward your future life, toward your present life, and fill your life or others' life

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of your friend and other people. By looking at your posture of walking on the street, training is not only zazen, When you ... when you walk on the street, you ... you always express your own full function. So ... Dogen Zenji said, if you want, if you want to have freedom, first you should understand, you should understand the expression of full function which everything possesses in itself.

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This is very important point to study Buddhism or to learn yourself within your daily life. So in Zen monastery life, Zen Master advises you always, very often, to give such an important thing. Even though the back of your feet possesses the expression of full function.

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Maybe you found several dusty clothes just in front of the door in several places. So sometimes look at the back of your feet and Take care of your feet with clothes. Clean your feet. Thank you very much.

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