April 9th, 1988, Serial No. 01068

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guru yoga
help me
he can do as a day when you're feeling really strong me be clear and the body same a loose
can you do
new subjugation eyes he can shoot them
take it easy
a very last don't find yourself
i'm there are three of us now have suffered knee injuries a back injury in exactly those circumstances
the pigs have a minute thirty seconds to hear something dot com feel something had them off and then it may take six months a year or four months or something to get back to blame or in the first place
but fortunately this is a runestone tradition of practice and so
course i'm just wherever i need to be should be grateful to be in the situation having me on to be very careful
because there's something i need to worry about how his hip than she does not open out take one he encouraged to attend to the movement on my mobile
came to my mind which sometimes
thinking that oh look a whole season to go deeper into this particular strange
when

system convention meeting them
talk about the most important thing
giannis and somewhat different most important things and if it were trying we haven't been able to learn the language of buddhism it was easy to grow up on projects to grab onto this kind of for the outline and structure day
a one a getting syndrome
i have been thinking about getting talking finger day with you i want to what came up with something like that which is that then maybe for me the most important thing is inhabiting the body
inhabiting the body
he took his hand
i love the line between games doing some mr jones lived a few feet from his body
would have feel but probably most of us have grown up living somewhere
the fortunately

fortunately japan sensitive
they help us
actually
you do
home
some point you realize the junior minds are unable to make all kinds of decisions more can be judgment but in fact it have to wait for your body kill
surrender changed job and go on a trip but you can also be undermined by
a kicker is so
if we stay current with their bodies were less likely to be knocked off
that was a current he said i think because i'm a i am i think therefore i mean
grammar isn't we say i think not thinking therefore i am
you know if there's a accomplished some of you know that a monk
asked the teacher we will do you think up when you're doing this steady mobile city
in the teacher says i think not drinking
with later what is this think not thinking
and teacher says nothing
are another version is how do you think not thinking
institutions not that
so another way
being in the body
holding your body
maybe not think it can be that's another language for it
and what is this not thinking
the family most of the snow but thinking is to have hidden to not think if and getting to not thinking than we might but
wonder what that is and then this is a good topic for my practice every day companies and what is this think not countries how do you think nothing can use punch me
this posture is not our posture this is pluto's posture this battle with the legs crossed he could work restoring the next class the mcgrath the spine and rank the chest and neck expanded the
chin
hey
you're free to expand this is good as bastion
when we came this past year
we're sitting included see
as soon as i say that i realize that those people are sitting in chairs
don't they feel left out but actually
this postures and she's sitting in chair
hey sometimes though this prostitute i think therefore
it's also a buddhist country
however usually we don't know that you don't think officials that we don't know ourselves as buddha when he said
we should swap our body you don't know why
so you're sure it we have to
sebelius posture
and several ourselves into
yes
the up to me
connect with our sitting around
right for sure that trifled the
before we can feel it not think cool
ooh that's fine
that dimension in our life that is deeper than the normal dimension that and after launch running around thinking doing

the great mystery
the call
how much it a couple of weeks ago and talk about
that quality of history the mysterious aspect of your life
and then i'm calling it not thinking more not knowing
this posture helps us come back to that dimension of our experience that is absolutely a simultaneous coexistence with
glued onto the interconnected not one not to her every the
kids to amount of the rich
you have to call this week so i'm having trouble with my boss who missed that lacks pronounced where we must be we can close the door my because the bank country
try
this this dimension of not
knowing
before the mysterious quality of our lives there
hi richness that
and sense of wonder since it's not knowing

is absolutely and totally integrated totally signed the painless with totally not separated from every breath every thought every gesture every action
western for emptiness history or not knowing he's not the background of our lives
it's not something that it's just a two feet away from my buying it is absolutely totally you escape of me right
right there in each thought there was nothing there is emptiness their interesting
two well to meet this dimension to trust it to trust our life to this costume is not so easy to do we come to this come to buddhism and i
think it's fair to say that most of us come out of some suffering in our lives some of despair
the desperate feeling
looking for some something to connect more deeply
with ourselves
and were offered this form
sasa instruction the first time you show up here somebody will guide you through this past year no particular for details where the back is where the hips are
well we don't say so much about
the emptiness who were not form one thing i'm not thinking side
words
worrisome be silent
lecturing at defiles it
lecturing throws out of ideas and concepts in we're already doing stuff the fact
so if
i could just coming here and sit with you
i would hear you lecturing to me
he would all be lecturing to each other
he met in buddhism is the deepest true deepest
the deepest dimension
but it's not separate from i'm sitting here in talking
it's not separate from
having a so i mean
how to sit in this post year and simultaneously be free from liberated from the attached to construct
here's the effort is the practice
the path is the resolution was the arrival moves them non non go
when the perfection of because the perfection of wisdom yourself
to see the there's no wisdom which to go beyond question and stupidity
dichotomy
so we practiced the wisdom tradition
to go beyond it to let it go
but
we can't let it go
before we can
holy
known yet trusted it
absorbed and digested it into our lives
so
telling you that taking this posture
his pluto's posture and when you take this post your you bring your body concluded by into alignment
telling you that doesn't mean so much unless in your own experience in your own sitting practice you have some taste of that
read em that breath that non-cash with that non grabbing that we don't grab to this for
history
don't let it go

they sit for many years and many lifetimes
and sometimes
two
realize
we
but this is them who has passed you
you that
bringing hard body into food as costume create one
the money
the seven g e it
japanese
mark who brought this tradition that we're practice their from china to gps has a classical body and mind study of the way
if they'd like to
just read it
briefly he says the little bit here
there are two approaches to studying the food away what is to study with the mind one is to study with the five
to study the way with the body means to study the way with your own body
it is the study of the way using this lump of red flesh
the body comes forth from the study of the way
everything which comes forth from the study of the way is the true human body
come to study buddha for thirty photos last year with his life good as mine used to study this by your mother with whiplash
that's the america
when you study your body your sensations
healing
your muscles your breath
you'll see that that expands everything correctly seventy the body simultaneously studying the mind that doesn't exclude becomes one
he says to study with mind means to study with the various aspects of money
such as consciousness emotion and intellect
there is your is bits and pieces of straightforward mind
the mind of the ancient buddhist
every day mind
the triple world which is one mine
sometimes you study the way by casting off the mind in sometimes you study the way by taking up tomorrow
either way study the way with thinking and study the way not thinking
my experience over the years
is that we are buddhism offers us many practices or study this posture sending this time studying this morning
and they're very helpful to get us started like the first foundation of mindfulness is following the breath being in touch with the body the fret physical experience
after a while it's important to take these practices and make them very intimately here own so are no longer practices that you're doing outside of your life
when i feel that's one of the problems at some of us have run into over the years we start doing zazen
as an adjunct to our lives and so far more technique or a tool that will help our lives but our life is a little to the side and these practices these practices are following the breath
family
sensation ceiling fan and thought somehow or outside of our actual life
we have to buddhist practice the specific practices which the tradition office is right on the point of our life
right to the point where we're pretty we're there is some disease or some desperation for some real
there he saw that is separate from thing you do they get points are you get our or something it was working on
the classical is as engine which dogan has written
has been translated by a room she as acupuncture needle this of sounds it
pretty with nudity
by that he needs but thousand gives the needle
like which we ply which we apply to that point the exact point in my body and mind that he need not around it it's not just walking a couple of centimetres it right on the point and me that's the crucial thing
that may be some of us have miss that we think if we just keep doing this activity over and over and many the savoy were you doing it over and over for twenty years gypsum there is twenty five and now has been doing a good thirty one
but at some point you have to bring it exactly to the place of like when your life with i think so they be true one
so fasten you're putting your confusion
burj
when we talk about studying or like intimately we don't mean studying it from a distance you don't go looking at if you're like me i sort of like we get a perspective on things so i need very easily detach myself and take a look at
outcome here
we have to bring it inside
in order to to really know it
no it without the intervention of the conceptualizing
describing
discrimination mind
one of the definitions of the perfection of wisdom is for knowledge of all modes of which is matt the intimate knowledge from the inside of every every person
every piece of life
call meet you
trees where insects
to know into methane
what it's like from the inside could be wrong great muffins example specific questions or comments from gorbachev
jimmy swaggart what's it like to be in that person's mind and by no cap
no judgment
when we know our life in this room with a moment you've been a few seconds
we can understand when we know someone else's life
that's a paste of myth
from that twice that not knowing
compassion you understand human judgment comes for
from that place we can live our lives in a court
things as they are
wisdom another way of talking about it is something like sections such a wonderful word with is such that would you can't add anything to the way it is is just and it is
things just as they are
is there such as
yeah that's so hard because we would love to were always appropriate in life
to a profit since to become comfortable for we're adjusting ourselves to what we expect a purpose
i thought of them

somebody came to toss a hearse year here so ago and gave a talk a painter and
it's a calligraphy for us and before he started he says i have no idea what i'm gonna say
and you felt in needed body he didn't have any idea he didn't come to meet us with any
prepared talk preparing to teach
okay folks this is this is the buddhist teaching it straight from japan get it
and it was in japanese the country there was actually end up just leaving this person
the innumeracy the presence of his breath
his hurt
when i realized that if i came in here can the immediacy of my breath and heartbeat
the muscles
after me and have nothing to say when i had thought it would be quite a different message to often quite a different kitchen
can i thought what a much improved pitching about the
he just went
just weddings here i am willing to sit with you be up here
i don't have anything special person
well
he couldn't i sharing to say
the
the

i had this thing about leaving even with
the teaching
leaving you with a little gem something that i've learned
what we proudly that have just as much to leave with me
maybe we don't work with you already have enough to deal with sitting cross legged are sitting here on his day or wherever your minds your have actually know
that it goes
get again a good reading a book my sister sent me
one cup of between women this is really important because my sister europe and working on our relationship for years and she sent this to me it's about
women's lives together starts with so the loving support that women give each other just naturally in the genes from life and how they identify with were usually emerge with each other very intimate
at some point when one it to women were usually recovering that close for guestrooms when something happened to the life of one of them gets a better job has a new improper
comes back to school to change your situation and something catches the other one instead of joyfully
supporting it increasingly feels longer mp competition
hadn't been abandoned ship where whether this is very hard
to accept coating systems and of these angry feelings with the hundred feet love and support and nurture it's been around for many years
and what's interesting about this what that would be similar therapists to like that
the projection of anger onto the other person for having abandoned or died here is a way of looking at what's really going on in your own heart which instead children but you never dreamed for yourself
the she might have
the possibility of differentiating as much as the person who's just taking next to the never thought about the possibility of going back to school a things line independent of freaking out of this solution
he had the same time having fun not losing
so to me this paper teaching is that are projections are anger on that spectrum could help or hinder my the nicotine
as well as our kind of stuff for people that we admire
what to the late use as heroes
oh that stuff is a little extra is mostly events or screen to agree that has been looking up a three with the my mind
so to fix them in buddhism is to stay please pay attention to back when you release your anger your anger person who is the object of your anger is your best friend not ever since i've knitted originally
a but whoever lets you see yourself that clearly he's doing blue or fixing please pay attention to the person that you heard in his weapons never a problem when you go bouncing up and moving through to
that's wonderful and need friends like that part mostly that the person who brings out your when she can't bear he would never ask the person who share a meal
that's the person who will have you seen them to river
he took his mind and body
in a way that can give you some liberation
key i gift cookies car or the duration or thanks to the mentioned
this past year
this to bring forth what we already knew
boy
our homes
one
he liked that would be create
in the truck off and the with every siliceous now and which she will have been good and birth can we had a little circle ambulation here this morning will have a picnic at them
greenbelt combined to you are welcome
thank you for being here so it actually go
hello mister try to not some