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what we actually did have candy but she probably had playing so i brought some mounting
these are no dearie for this it's a covered ginger but not milk trunk and so everybody can have some if you'd like so happy halloween
do you think you
i also have
mountain gates study center week last week we should have put our names down and and we check off as we go along so that we pass this around there's to vomit i'm not sure from need to get
and there's more copies to setting with me to copy k
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this way in need to copy
a president you need but you can
so i would like to start with a thing i names again
daddy when you are jersey
my golf job barbara a rabbit
lumia
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kinda more on the outlived to marry the or five
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everyone
i know in the city check they're having their say the ceremony because they always have it on halloween so judith wasn't here leslie and lucas were at this party because was a frog did you see lucas how i haven't seen him i heard he was a frog and
jacob was a dinosaur
and i'm olivia was of women can su
sabrina i actually don't know which going and what did david
davey this year being a freshman in high school did not want to trick or treat someone with you're a i stopped that year may eighth grade was the last time i took tweeted so right right is par for the course there's when did we start
when did we start trick or treating your your return so got the energy to drop the from rape
so the tensile cure coon
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did anyone read it over a steady at this week and look at it
turn it over yes i looked up the passage that you refer to as
and schriften
or less than else in it it was to on and on was a way from who overturn the race yes
why is is that
i'd like to start with
the first
what's sometimes could be called that the preface this with this what i was hoping you do today start off with the first two or three paragraphs and go into
we'll just see how far we get but i also found some supporting material in another place that i was surprised but i wanted to bring that up some very detailed
instructions from dogan about how to wash pots i know a lot of you are doing a lot of dishes these days
so i thought that was interesting
these some with these can go around again and putting a don't be shy this is halloween so the open jaffna the now
a capacity
nigga
so let's start out really busy one for the dispute
there's only one who's been here
there's lot it's rubbish but or with different oh of
rollers you all day i quit in a cave
so
it's we stared out
actually it as i was reading this there were certain words though i've wanted to
i wanted everybody to be familiar with certain words and and i realize as i began thinking by within a story would come up and so we may never get through the experimenter
from the beginning and buddhist family there have been six temple administrators no six temple administrators
is the roku that six the roku chichi the roku chichi and the chichi are people who know how to manage the monastery tg means no manage or take care of the affairs so they were what it green gulch it's like senior staff you might say though we have more
people on the senior staff than six and ten sahara when i first which does her we use that term the rocket gg who's on the roku tv or sancho was asked to be on a rocket gg which were these practice positions that
older students were given you know you didn't walk into tessera and get a a teaching position so the roku chichi is
the ino the head of the meditation hall or supervisor of the monks affairs the head cook what we call the director
or and the assistant director there is the work leader and then the
treasurer the treasurer now in dawkins time the director the assistant director and treasurer were all one there was really for
main officers for senior staff people so those three treasurer assistant treasure and director it gives me assistant director and director was was all one which you can imagine you if it's a small
if it's a small community the directory could do the finances as well you can imagine that but down the work leader the ten zo and the know we're all these are very old practice physicians and if if this book is on reserve but it has sections talking about how each of those positions is his pram
optus so
this word rocha gg you make year at sometimes zone so than the rogue gg that's that those six officers and we still you know it's not this best to gl it it actually is
who is asked to be a senior staff and take those practice positions in the administrative realm there always
from the beginning and buddhist family they have been six temple administrators these are all buddhist children and together they carry out buddha's work so they're not thought of these jobs are not thought of is to administrative clerical these are this is another way of expressing buddhist work and if it's not seem that way
yes spirit
i was hoping you can choose
oh okay if it's not seem that way by the practitioner themselves or by others
you know there's my burnout factor in all the things that were prayed to in in num certain situations job work situations if but if it's understood and buddhists work or on the work of seasoned practitioners with way seeking mind than the whole thing shifts and that
that's in this time you know and twelve hundred and two thousand and this is the same dynamic yes mean is there a higher
higher cost structure in most sex positions are they considered to the of equal weight
amina i think even at that time
well the amount of writing about the tensile job seems that that was maybe one of the most highly respected and i would think just no human nature sometimes the entry level on the senior staff is for us maybe er tussen are would be like work leader might be the first job you'd as to be due to be
be for senior staff ah
have been around this way i keep them here don't be shy
yeah
am
or guess your manager sometimes is the first senior staff positions green gulch
so in that wave i think the director often as someone who's been on senior staff before and ten xo not necessarily been on senior staff maybe have one of these the next can have rung of like for ten assistant tanzer everybody sign that
so in our system the the director oversees the other staff members they kind of report you'd say to the director but in some way practitioner was i think there's a lot of parody in practice experience
not always right now that i would say that's the case here just sorry has a lot of several new people on staff for the first time this practice period
so
so these
jobs are done by buddhist children's on practitioners they're not just hired treasures are that i saw these translations for treasure as controller and i know someone wants us to begin calling sense and as president the ceos and set ceo own i realized i have a
i am
negative connotation with ceo i like president it seems like even though we don't elect but
ah
anyway we at one time i remember someone saying when we needed the president's and said well let's just advertising in newspaper for someone who's got a lot of managerial skill for a nonprofit and why not but all the administrative positions for the corporation as well president treasurer
sectors and corporate secretary all of these are my understanding of it and hopefully the
a corporate officers understanding is that they're doing but his work it's not just being an accountant or head of a non-profit it's conveying your understanding of buddhism through this particular quirk of taking care of the community managing things
so
so among these is ten xo who takes care of the preparation of the food for the community now the zen and shinji is this the john one jean way that's this work that was from eleven hundred and two or eleven hundred and three the pure
the standards for the zen garden or or
your standards for zen monasteries and this was this early text which is ten volumes and it's supposedly lost the earliest the note said ah
the earliest discussion of how to run amount of shooters from a lemon lemon hundred and dogan crusher read this so they quote this the zen and changing the channel on jean grey says preserving the community there is the tensile now
i looked at a number of translations which are also unreserved but i don't know if you've seen them
since ancient times masters with way seeking mind
another is some this is offered to senior monks or the community who have way seeking mind eminent persons who have aroused the thought of awakening senior monks with the aspiration for enlightenment these are all ways of saying ah
we're seeking mine were seeking mind is some
doe shin dos and don'ts the way
shin his mind or heart mind so different ways of translating donation
we seek him a lofty people who had awakened their hearts were appointed to this job
ah
other translations of better teachers who have settled in the way
bodhisattvas with spirit within themselves
so you get the feeling this is who's chosen as cans of someone who has way seeking mine has settled themselves in the way whose aroused this aspiration this is who you interest
the food preparation now it just want to stop there for a moment because
as you notice in this description nowhere does it say say that they should be a good cook you know if they should even know how to cook not mentioned the main important thing is this bodhisattva aspiration way seeking mine
which i find a very interesting point because you would think usually or who should we have as cook well sounds as a great cook with as they have been down this doesn't really come up
for guess cooking in the summer at tassajara it does come up we actually decide who who's a good cook and
choose chefs and good cooks but the ten so often just learns on the job or they've been on the crew
or if they've been a phuket in they may or may not know how to cook so i just want to point that out
which may seem sort of topsy turvy been actually the trust is in the person themselves expressing the buddha way rather than skill as a chef
i'm so then this next line
after all isn't this the single color of diligently engaging in the way
ah so this diligently engaging in the way
his translator also as exerting all your energies
whole requires whole hearted practice
exerting all your energies and whole hundred practice this is ben go to am
fully throw yourself into this work
diligently
so what and without this it goes on to say this if you do not have the mind of the way this door shin
then all of this hard work and it is hard work the cancels job
you know it it never ends never ends
all this hard work is meaningless and not beneficial unless you have this way seeking mine then all this what one might say is some like being cinderella or something else cinderella watch those pants he just on and on and on when ever win a meal ends you gotta start thinking about the
next one people have to eat and it is this relentless quality of the work
i know this from being so you know you'd finish which dinner and then it would you had to start and that's how it describes the day know after the meal you begin thinking about the next day in the breakfast so
if you don't have this mind of the way all this hard work is meaningless and not beneficial if you don't have a way seeking mind you will not have good results
if the person doing this job lack such a spirit than he or she will only endure a unnecessary hardships and suffering that will have no value in that pursuit of the way
burn out now so this this aspect is extremely important
anybody many have any thoughts about pattern questions or
anything can look
right
perfect
something just clicked for me america and wet
so
often historically women guns because they have a commitment to their families
is bad
i guess what came to my mind is racing to live action necessary to be able to practice
well
yeah
yeah i'll do it
ah well
heart sounds that's cool yes
well i don't think we have to have a narrow definition of way seeking mind you know if the m aspiration is to care for others
with love and attention and kindness not harming and create sacred space within and without and you know treat all beings who walk through your door as you
that
you know we know people like that you love going to visit them because they are so happy or there and they it's like a tea ceremony when the host you come and they just cannot do enough to welcome you and take care of you is that story of through going to a tea ceremony and told the story
before but she didn't know these people they were
a strangers but they were t people her teacher brought her to this tea ceremony and they were served meals and they were it was a whole long day including thin t and fifty and a lovely guy sacchi meal and you know the flowers and walking in the garden and and at the end they said goodbye and who to
this couple you own me
in your own me they had won her over you know they
so that's a kind of practice in and of itself now we also know people who
and more women traditionally who are resentful who feel what what was that quite move lives of quiet desperation to remnant from the fifties that was no book about
have that mattel
who do it because they have to and there's no alternative pit it's not necessarily
you know
this kind of feeling it's you do it because he gotta you know so i think
the so it may be to ask what is wasting his mind you know or what is full exertion maybe to look there because they don't think
zan has a corner on that you know
b m
but the the kind of underpinning of this i wanted to get him to a little bit
the last one
no
so this endeavor this full exertion
are diligently prednisolone get hundred over here that here did the horse
a hundred
i'm
this effort exerting one's energies fully
it the the word is ben go and there's a festival in trouble games uncle ben go which is on the endeavor of wholehearted practice or devore of the way and
i just wanted to read from that i wrote down on it although the inconceivable dharma is abundant in each person
it is not actualized without practice
and it is not experienced without realization
no gonna say that again although the inconceivable dharma is abundant in each person is not
it is not actualized without practice
and it is not experienced without realization
so you know the one of the main point that dog brings up over and over and over
is the connection of practice in realization it's like one word life and practice realization
so when dharma the inconceivable gamma is abundant in each one of us but unless we actualized it through our practice we don't that we can't realize it
i'm gonna go on from bando up to suppose that practice and realization are not one
is nothing but a heretical view in buddha dharma in buddha dharma they are inseparable practice realization
because practice of the present moment is practice realization
the practice of beginner's mind is itself the entire original realization
so
so to suppose that practice and practice realization are two separate things is he basically says this is heretical
practice realization are inseparable so therefore that i'm trying to kind of point two
you know
our tendency to think
this is kitchen work and then there's you know ah
the separation of kind of the everyday in the mundane and then our our dharma practice somehow which is our tendency of mind to to have sort of a hierarchy of of activity and the practice period itself and the emphasis in sodas and especially in dogan and suzuki is
this everyday activity is the excuse realization practice realization is inseparable so because practice of the of the present moment practice of the present moment which is whatever you know it doesn't mean cross i get city necessarily or chant here
bowing are offering incense or it means chopping and towing and hauling firewood and washing dishes and whatever the present moment is talking to your friends brushing fleas out of the dog or whatever it is
the practice of the present moment
the practice of the present moment whatever it is his practice realization
and then
so then the practice be a beginner's mind when you first walk in the door beginner's mind is itself the entire original realization now isn't that like good news
because of course we figure i haven't beginner and just thirty how i'm not really good then student and they all understand i don't but but it's like wipes that away it's just the practice of the present moment so the beginner's mind which is you know what we named
the city centre temple is beginners my temples and my beginner's time then mind beginner's fine the practice of the present moment is practice realization so
the beginner's mind the practice beginner's mind is the entire realization there but you don't necessarily know it or are conscious of but that's okay this is a kind of fun
you know like when you laughed when i said is this good news and you laughed i thought
they understand but they don't know how they understand i don't know either but you aren't got it you know that you can you don't have to worry
because we're coursing in the way but
you should know this is more and this has been doha you should know that in order not to defile realization
which is inseparable from practice buddha ancestors always
caution you not to be slack in your practice
so you know that laugh of hey we don't have to beginners by were all it's the entire realization so i can just kinda
you know i don't have to do anything at all but you know less you'd think that you can just sit around and your
laurel's you should know that in order not to defile this realization which is abundant in an inconceivable way
not to defile this realization which is inseparable from your practice buddha ancestors have always cautioned you not to be slack in your practice
so that brings us right back to the tensile who is exerting full effort whole heartedly engaging in the way not being slack and this not being slack is not to filing this realization which is bunny and illness but which we can only realised through actualizing it how
by fully exerting ourselves in whatever we do in the practice of the present moment whatever it is
so our emphasis you know is on
oh we don't emphasize anything that's the thing each thing is completely exerted we don't emphasize you might think we were we emphasizing thousand or we ain't but no we each thing gets full attention
and it but each thing the attention each the needs there is asking for you know that's different but it's your full attention for the appropriate attention that's necessary
so you know you as that my favorite examples you treat the bus driver in your mother you know differently but they each get your full attention right but in different ways
so this is kind of i just wanted to go over this bender while his practice realization because to me it's the under
the kind of source of all this that be saying is this
this teaching a practice realization is
inseparable and to not to file this to not be slack to completely exert yourself
okay
that
how's that
are you make here
a face of a physical this you don't like should get mean august makes sense as we sit here now
my god moment that on last night and now
i was just clearing and i can't even imagine ever
i have enclosed or what those columns are now so my question is did the collins fit into that
we're talking
well
the cohens our dialogues between teachers and are teachers and students who talk in a way that does not separate practice realization you know but it's inconceivable so when we try to grasp with that mind that says okay this
is english i know as english but what is this talking about you know we try to grasp it with the certain kind of intellectual mind
ah it it eludes us and we try and how about this way what about that how about a poetic mine will have a that sounds good with and it's just so
so to be completely mindful practice of the moment last van in the class may have been and maybe this is how you were practicing in the moment is i am completely in the dark i am feeling very confused
i'm getting more and more annoyed at my fellow practitioners and want to go home
and being aware of all that the discomfort in your body tightness in your throat wanting to cry feeling like you've come to the wrong place maybe
all that emotional stuff you know how the seat is very uncomfortable you and just all of it
is practicing in the present moment that was what i don't know if that was what was going up for you i'm guessing but
wow
hey david i mean yeah so you know
being completely
exerting that whatever that was
whatever was going out for you so it's not
that's the wonderful thing about the present moment there's
there's we never lack for something to a completely exert you know as long as for
alive and kicking you know there's something to were completely pay attention to
with full you know wholeheartedness but it doesn't mean it's not painful you know doesn't mean it's
joyful not that you know it can be pain and irritation and all those things
but staying with it
so how how the coin fits in his living that way you know
living that way
ah well i don't want to make any predictions
living that way is non defilement
but none deferment doesn't look a particular way
yes i have a question is very different
last week we had just come from t at ribs and we have guests with oh and he had told us a story about being tassajara when the roads were jammed up and configured went other croutons on the green after me well as maybe i assumed you would notice i know the croutons
it's like to i did he tell you about the wheat berries know what i wondered when we would have told us do it turns out earlier because heroin and you were tens of during that no no i came after that bit of
it's his story so i should probably let him tell put that same practice group those how many of you weren't at p whose how many people were an empty a revenue probably heard the story but anyway the roads were
went out and we couldn't get food in and out of the road i wasn't it test how this was one of those legendary tales that
i had heard about he and the tens of hadn't at that time they have been
you know fifty pound sacks and
all sorts of things and noodles and canned goods and it just there was it was like we pretend her bravery other week so they couldn't get over the road and maybe the the used up everything they were down to salt and wheat berries
and some wild greens i think that they were gathering
and reb was the plumber at the time he was a work in the shop
and people were getting very anxious about getting enough food there also wasn't all that much it was weeping is
and but you know there was like rationing you know you could only have a certain amount
oh there's a lot of stories about that practice period but anything that people began to they were
a lot of anxiety about getting enough food so they would take enormous bowl fools have any of you eaten wheat berries well it's like the m it's it's it's a pretty heavy duty food you know you have to hard to chew you get it it's a whole grains a whole grain wheat here and husky journalism
so people would get football's and they would
yeah he well it happened
he will have finished the stress
anyway read a bug
well people who are not a he was the plumber there was problems with the toilet
what he found is that people had not been they weren't even chewing
they are congested and whole you know because he knew because
so it was
people were having a lot of trouble now this happens every practice period to a lesser degree you're probably feeling it now like
to i wish i had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich right about now how with lunch just finished project i could really go for one you know this feeling like
feeling down
difficulties and may be turning towards food and wanting to get enough food
maybe this isn't happening yet but often you know there's very little distractions or much fewer distractions than you're used to be food seems to become very
loom is quite large on the horizon as a main thing i mean it does break the monotony and
and day off you know taking many treats and i remember making three sandwiches for day of lunch just in case
but you're ever thinking as they made the third one
you don't just in case you might even snack and the late afternoon
but anyway it was like ahead my sack mrs that doesn't carry my sack back to my room with three sandwiches to cook you through everything garrett don't let you know
ah so this kind of happened this happens around food
where
it's like comfort food you know you want some kind of comfort why do you want comfort because you're facing difficult things near the snake and a bamboo tube you know that image for the practice period a familiar with an image
traditional image i was telling somebody other day is for practice periods you take a snake that does you know state does this it can also go
so you have a bamboo tube which is the practice period and you take this snake in you put it in the to while what happens it it still wants to do its regular movements you know based on habitual patterns and route nice thinking and tendencies and propensities and greet a delusion
and i keep bumping up into the bamboo sides and it hurts as it bumps but it knowingly and willingly went into the bamboo two women no one forced it actually i wouldn't say we put you put your self into the bamboo tube voluntarily
but it hurts you know and then when you bump and you think gee i sure could go for a peanut butter sandwich
yes my question is
aware that doing that the grades
that's great and
that requirement well thank you for bringing it up for the kansas should be aware of that because they've probably been in the monastery themselves and would know but in this enlightenment unfolds which is the a hey kuroko the i found this section
talks about
according to the guidelines presented monasteries as the term one june way the duty of the head cook is to supervise the cookie of meals for the community activating a heart for the way and responding to each situation make sure that the community enjoys the meals they receive be careful to
this is great be careful not to waste the communal food see that the supplies are not in disarray and keep lay assistants who are capable do not be too strict with the assistance in your application of the guidelines if you are too strict the assistance will become tense on the other hand if your too
to loose the work will not be accomplished
anyway
this thing about
you you want the community to enjoy the meals they receive make sure they enjoy the meals that we see so
and also in the tensile coconut it talks about being aware of the constitution you know you
well i'll tell you another story but i wanted to tell you story about myself which is when i was ten so we had a budget and speaking of wanting to take care of the students you know
and i think i see
overspent my budget or something we didn't ever met enough
and so i use my stipend money to buy better is this became a kind of that's how famous story but years later seventies that you used your loan money to buy from but now butters and disrepute present at that time he noted i think i made shortbread cookies are some real buttery nice thing because i knew
it down i wanted to do that i don't know what i knew i just wanted to offer them
but you can go too far i remember for ribs she so ceremony
there was that the shoot when he was the head monk of tessa her
the ten so
the last day of hasheem there's a treat that served a special treat has served we don't do it here we end the session and then have tea together and have treats but it does her the treat was served in the zendo and the tensile made and cut pieces of cake that were huge they were like this big they were like loaves of bread but
it was cake with chocolate frosty they were brought into the zendo and people's i asserted as a political approach was the seventh the of session and at anyway it was like how could it nobody could finish it in the abbot richard bakers and tattoo baker the type said you couldn't even eat a piece of bread that big let alone a piece of cake so
ten so i felt and won't say who it was you don't know this person anyway this person is long gone but even this attempt to all the people they've been sitting for seven days they'll really want a good treat kind of went overboard you know it was like her i idea of what would be a good cheap but at what it didn't actually meet
the sensibilities of the people in the room so it can't be based on ideas you it has to be accurate you know what but you're supposed to take pick about the weather gets chilly cold day you're not going to have fruit soup you know you're going to have some nice to split pea soup or
something you consider the if people are sick and if it's hot out and what kind of work they've been doing and you know in menu planning you try to take care of the community that way so that that's what i would hope the tensor will be doing and the crew who's working with the of bites a
oh be really nice to have a
you know the first greens are up in the spring let's have a just throw him into the south these wild greens you know after after the winter when they come up things like that you want to keep that in mind just like you would if you were around
cooking for your friends you know what would be appreciated the story that i want to tell this is really this is the story that at the and dogan says you must know you have to understand the heart of this casual
there was a teacher who was very strict named sure she asked
and he
he was so strict that when people came to sit they you sit hungary oh you you do the waiting period before your you entered the monastery like you did for practice do you sit one day here in five days that tessera but this is some traditional so
ah
he was so stern and aloof
ah but he was respected by his month but these monks came you know they travel they went on pilgrimage and the came to sit with him and it was a cold and snowy day and on there they were sitting in the tongue area room and on their first meeting shisha and shouted and drove them out
picture it i know sitting there and somebody coming in lawyer sitting tango and shouting at you and kind of drive you out of the other the zendo not only that the cold and snowy day not only that he threw water around in the tongue very room
so everyone's clothes got wet
picture that all of a visiting months fled except for five on and ye why they arranged their robes and continued sitting in the visitors' room it's the tongue ariel
shisha came in a scolding voice said if you to mugs don't leave our hit you
wow one approach approaches yet and said the two of us came hundreds of leave
lisa
can remember what it is for my of and amy hundreds of lead to steady years then how could a dipper full of water drive us away
even if we get beaten to death we will not leave
she laughed and said you both need to practice then go to the monks on hang up your stuff hang up your bags so that line where he says we came hundreds of miles to steady here in a dipper full of waters not gonna stop us
you know it it kind of i'm shook me out of this thing like what kind of an abusive teacher is that going in on a snowy cold day and you're sitting tango throwing water on them i mean really you know that was
which is he was calling you know he was saying okay who's ready to cause he's history teacher this is how i do it folks and so you gotta be ready so later for one was asked to serve his head cook by sushi
and at that time the assembly was suffering from she sheds aloof style an unappetizing food so this is a tanzer who was not use wasn't good he wasn't going to do things to please people or he just was not his way
so one day she shares went up to a village went to a nearby village do some areas
and while he was away five one took the key to the storehouse without permission
got some noodles he actually got some flour to make noodles and oil and made a delicious morning meal for the community
she's shall return earlier than expected and without saying anything joined in the communal meal so he just took his place in their known ate the meal in amongst all after the meal was over he sat outside the monks hall and sent for five one and said did you get the noodles and oil from the storehouse
fireworks and yes i did please punish me
so this is stealing our stores from the saga which is one of the highest in terms of stealing taking what is not give him taking something from the sangha is considered the most
extreme offense because when is given to the saga is given to the buddha the dharma and practitioners to carry up brews way so to steal from the saga to steal food that's been given to the community is much worse has had a stronger karmic
effect than stealing other things that haven't been dedicated to the triple treasure so he's supposedly i mean he's told these things without asking
so he said yes i did please punish me so she she i told him the estimate the price of the noodles and the oil and to compensate the community by selling his rogues and bowl
for he is a monk rain in this he has
then she gave him thirty blows and expelled him from the monastery
fall one stayed in a nearby city and then he asked some of his dharma friends to intercede for him plead for him
department for shisha to pardon him but she shouldn't would not
for one also pleaded even if i am not readmitted i would like to request permission to visit and practice in the community so even if he wasn't accepted to the practice period to get could i just come on a sunday and and just sit at the community and shan said no he did not approve it so one day she should've went into the city
step standing in front of a traveler's shelter that was in the city shan't said to have this shelter belongs to the monastery how long have you been living here
have you paid your fees
so they operated baby these little way stations for traveling monks that the monastery provide so he was stay married didn't have anything she shared found out he and how long we've been here how much have you paid your fees he told file one to calculate calculated peace and make the payment for one was not disturbed
carried his ball in the city collected food he sold the food and made his payment to the monastery
later she's shown went to the city and software i'm begging he returned to the monastery and told the assembly that five one had a true intention to steady sin and finally called him back
that's one of those stories that cannabis really sticks for me a certain now
ah we're seeking mind i guess and later dogan says for one needs to be steady someone like him is encountered once in a thousand years
so this kind of spirit
it can be encouraging it maybe it isn't you know to you
but in this effort to take care of his garber friends you know who'd been getting unappetizing food wheat berries right there was stuff to eat and he can get it without permission know if we go back to our instructions for the head cook
we go out a little further it tells about
you know how to go about the day and about you consult with the other officers you decide with the menus you you're not unilaterally doing this but for one did this
for the benefit of his friends and he received the
ah
whatever that a
fruit of that action was which was this encounter with his teacher that he was you knowingly and willingly did this stealing of the poor to make him a special meal
and then took the consequences whatever it was and was called to be that kind of unfazed i mean he pleaded to come back but he just received it
so says this kind of spirit of practice
shall we go on
so in this next sentence you must put towards the mind of the way offering appropriate variety in the food served so that the community can feel satisfied and at ease
we're oh sorry am i looking at the long coalition a right okay still the first page right after it says the zen and shinji
so
so variety of food so the community feel satisfied and and ease because if you don't feel satisfied in a east is very hard to sit zazen
so in ancient times such people as grecian and duke genesis a different direction and i talked about and seven nicholas's
another person named dongsheng sure sure i think it's his last name and question was young shot student young show integration or is lots of comments about them
a robust position formerly various
formerly various great ancestors have worked at this job therefore isn't the tenth of different from both usual worldly cooks and even the imperial cooks
having visited the the emperor's palace and china imagining what the cooks for the imperial palace might of what the ingredients they would have had and so forth
as a different have a different take on this right now but
so when this mountain mount with dog was in some china during my spare time i made inquiries of former channels with long experience and they brought up examples they had seen and heard and related them to me
now it another translation it says i have
as cancels about how they
did their work
they spoke to a question senior monks who had held various positions and they spoke to me from their experience and one thing that were sometimes as to do if you take on one of these jobs is
you don't talk to the tensile see what they are
get get some to get the transmission of how this job goes from this tensile and of course each person does it in their own way their own unique way but you hear from the tens about their experiences and what worked what didn't and
that's part of your training's hearing from the tens of their experiences and examples
this guidance is the marrow bequeathed since ancient times by buddhists and ancestors who had the mind of the way
first volume of deeply study design and shinji it i i found a note that said someone did there
a phd dissertation on the shinji then and she they turn on jingling with annotated version and love to get a copy of it and seek as a this
beats worked ten volumes are ten chapters they say
after that it is necessary to hear discussions about details here it is details of the job from former ten cells
now let's see
so here we go with with shall we start with how to fulfill the job for a whole day and night
ah
so first after lunch you consult with the director and assistant director in their offices to get the provisions for the next day's breakfast and lunch so far one went so against us then instead of the assistant director your was born job
this note that i read said maybe you when he wrote this it wasn't bit at one time they were condensed into one in this theorem
they have them in the he said the sixth jobs in this as well but i think early rather those were condensed yeah
so what are the young practices if you talk with others what and we do this here we have a
many review we don't do this daily bread
in the staff meeting one of the things we do is go over the menus of the week cause are we to do it every week and here we don't do quite as often in it as ten xo it used to be very
hard for me because you'd read and then you'd get critique you know like a that squash soup really did not make it you know it was way too watery and that people would say things like there was no color in the afternoon in lunch it was white race you know lima bean soup
and they can salad or something you know from t et and notice the pellet
that you get these comments from people or you know i just don't like data meanwhile
you hit your practice is to receive that the comments of your fellow robert j g you know your staff members so in this this way the he goes over it daily and what are the provisions for the next day's breakfast and lunch so what because
donors bring or the harvest is brody and and contends of wouldn't necessarily know what's what are the provisions are yet
i'm provisions for the next day's breakfast this includes race greens and other items after you receive them carefully protect these ingredients as if taking care of your own eyes
another translation is guard the temple property as if it were your own eyes
so that's one of these are most for me like a mantra can have this phrase take care of the ingredients as if they were your own as in another translation it was as if they were your own eyesight now if you really
spend some time with that sentence take care of these things as if you know the race and the beans and the lettuce this for your own eyes your own i say how would you handle them you know well with great care right
so i'm
for those of you while handling food what would it be like to bear that in mind as you're chopping and placing and putting in the ball tipping into
steam trap people pants and to handle it as if it were your own eyes now
in truth
he in a five scandals feet
the i oregon and the visible the i organ in the visible
and i consciousness those three
i'm with me supposedly touch although there's some question about whether they actually do touch but anyway i organ
and the visible these are you know when we say in the heart sutra
ah
no forms no feelings no perceptions know formations no consciousness know i know errno knows to time nobody knew mine
the of form but the young
skanda one of the five heaps is for those are the five heaps the five skanda form feelings perceptions formations and consciousness those are the five scandalous and in the form skanda in are included eleven things in the form sky
the are included the i oregon
and the visible that's all on the forums kind of the scandal form so
you might say if you go down deeper
whatever your visibly handling is your own eyes that i organ an invisible
and when mate when there is an iraq and indivisible then there's a third thing that arises which is the i consciousness that's which is not in the kind of that sydney
conscious the skanda
but anyway
the i in the visible are not separate so when you handle anything doesn't have to be food know when you handle anything this is this you know this soto's and way of carefully handling objects and place he'd been down and using two hands well
this is it says handling as if it were your own eyes well it is your own eyes
you might say this this visible and i organ or not there would be no visible
without the i organ for me
so you handle it
as if agree your own eyes because is your own eyes
and the same is true of sounds smells tastes untouchables they all come in under the form
so the i am the seen the ear organ and heard the ah a touch and an attachable whatever it is now this is untouchable now it's a visible
and those are the organ and those
see a bulls and balls and smell those are nuts
separate
yes so those will make up a you said there were eleven the eleventh is a fishing up the route but these are old rupa this is the rupa scanner so there's the ten which are the organs in the corresponding sense objects and then the eleven is the average nap de rupa and the out to repay his
consciousness know it's it's a very subtle material it's a subtle form it's on
one or describe it is
for example after fifty years we have i have read have wrinkles here you know wrinkles but those wrinkles were being created you know cell by cell for the last fifty years by smiling whatever else we do and those are those have now been
we created ah
and it's very subtle way we can't even we can't see them being created but they are so that's the average napkin rupa it's like it's it has a subtle quality to a bit in the material realm that's the eleventh
and other things are built up in that way but i like the records because i think it's a very thick
we can relate to it
so anyway when we say handle things as if it's not just a metaphor you know or it's a beautiful metaphor i mean it really if you bear in mind and handle the carriage as if it were your own i organ or
that's one way to practice with it another is
no eyes no ears no no no time no binding of mine now color no sound or celtic and no extinction of those those
and the
the non separation of
ah
whether i should say the entire world you know
i don't want to veer into this but anyway of a low-key dish or when he or she
realized that the scandals were empty of own being was save from are suffering right so
the own being means that there is a distinct and separate entity out there that exists apart from my seeing of it
that exist by itself you know
from its side without
the inclusion of the i organ
anyway realized that the emptiness of all those five scandals were saved so this points to this this is a this is a kind of way to practice that truth treat everything as if it were your own eyes
with that much care
any questions about that
with i mean that the whole other round but if
read about like that for it coat the horizon this that though that is present similar yes i think it is similar
the m
dependent corrosion that meeting all things right they rise up together they're not distinct
even of themselves they depend for their
appearance on everything else so
i think come
like this for example there's are from pieces of chocolate
little bits of chocolate stecher the man there had been left
which i thought with color but it wasn't it's chocolate anyway
this some this bowl
is empty of own being now meeting this is made of clay and clay is what clay it's earth and old matter you know
plants and all sorts of minerals and it's it's just a whole bunch of stuff in the clay the earth
was
you know that clay was some
those that plant matter let's say quintile grown without the sun and rain and
ah wind and the the those minerals
depend then thereof
i don't know what minerals are water minerals you know there's metals and all sorts of different things so
this clay also to make this part was dug out of some earth and the quake the person who found the clay had to get it and bring it to the clay place to be brought to this is my child's
i think i can remember which one of my kids made this so but the person who brought the clay their parents and their grandparents and for mothers and fathers back to the first beings and the air that they breathed in the food that they age and
until you know in this glaze whatever these glazer and paint brushes that were made of animal hairs and pretty soon the ball that this call this a ball
we realized that there's not one thing in this that bowl there's no such thing as ball it's everything i've mentioned plus chocolate and you know your fingerprints and all the bacteria and it's just affecting it's just
it's it's the entire universe it's the entire cosmos is right here this is a bowl this is
this is the entire cosmos ladies and gentleman right here
it
but because i wanted to fill it with chocolate can bring it i had to call it something you know pass me the you can't say panels maybe entire cosmos rate because what are you going to pick up you know which one do you mean because each thing contains
everything if you look at it that way if you study at which is
the
the way of looking at things
deeply as ticknor hand says looking at things deeply but for short we call it bowl so that we can wash it and you can hand it to me it's over but you now all know now you have it so keep it well that down this is really the entire cosmos as is
as our each one of you at each and every single thing there is no what is it that we could pick up and say it's kind of outside of that we could do the same thing with paper right can do the same thing each one of us that this dependent core rising everything depends and everything else which is another way of saying
it's empty it's empty of what it's empty of own being it's empty of being a bowl it's not a bowl
because it's not a bowl this is this is the diamond sutra because this bowl is not really a bowl we call bull
it's a party and
that it's before
yeah but we conventionally all the said let's call this with call this a ball but let's nominally name it was nominally call it ball now some of the language they call it what do they call in spanish for know
do we know that the contents cash
italian griff rhys research what is it school school school
so but you now know what this really is so you have to take very good care of it this is that this teaching of emptiness is the is what's under all these admonitions about
stepping over the threshold with the right which you know placing your chopsticks
walk quietly in the zendo of the because why because
because ah
this is the entire
ultimate reality you know is right there in each moment that that because you are you
you can
i take good care of it be very
respectful and loving
that's what it's all about because this is buddha dharma you know and this is the truth of emptiness so dependent panicle rising is this dependent arising of things in that exist in this way
so it doesn't exist as a ball from its side there's no boldness their kind of living by it's self as a bowl but we think it is we think it's separate from me we think this a separate would just like we believe each other or somehow separate pit but we're not and we support
each other and so
sonic which is you know so to be given this job of tanzer to make food for these people were a practicing to realize this you know is this great honor and you
you don't do it for fame and glory you consult with the director and the other people what are provisions for the day and you choose the proper ones what kind of a day is it what are the ingredients you take care of the ingredients as if they were your own eyes
guard the temple properties as if they were your own eyes respect the temple food as if it were for the emperor this attitude applies to both raw and cooked food so you might get all the i feel that way about the complete finished thing but you'd also a couple of grains of rice farmer floor you know who
care for now raw or cooked doesn't matter it's all
it's all equal in that way you treat them you treat raw food differently then cooked food
ah in nam
you know preparation time and data but a feeling is exactly the same
would go out
am i losing you is a tablet you okay i know it gets so late here by nine
okay i have reached this clicks has quarter to is it really tempt him
so
so the next thing the tenth it as is some
all the temple administrators gather at their offices and discuss what combinations of flavors which vegetables and what breakfast rule to prepare for the next day when we were in china they had
these buffet meals that had both chinese breakfast and western breakfast and the chinese breakfast was always this race gruel white race cereal which we don't serve it all that often that we usually have m a whole greater oatmeal the white race
grewal were white rice porridge really really delicious and they shook become a joke yeah in chinese yeah i'm not sure to the haven't been i'm i'm not ready and on chinatown that it's very popular than chook chook took that i extended the chinese ah and in china
can they had honest
well they would have up the the this bowl of the white rice porridge and then different things to put in it spicy things like pickles and this tofu that was so spicy that it was like one of the spiciest think they've ever had you could only like take a little nibble and can stir it into your
porridge so it was a kind of this bland delicious soupy race and then you put little tidbits in it was really good so you know it i tell her we used to have for breakfast
wait you know some kind of cereal in submittable pickles we always had pickles for the third ball and we did before we had sex as we you would you'd use the pickle to clean your bowl that was the
you'd take ever heard trump's jake
do you know it sets to their equipment yeah agreements to everybody knows that they're so you take your pickles and clean around and then you got to eat pickles it was good i like that if you're going to check
so
savory stuff yeah and lots of vegetables
sometimes like napa cabbage chinese cabbage and there'll be broccoli there be noodle dishes there be those buttons really hungry there be a little fried dough dough pieces in
one of my favorites was the sesame they had these in chinatown it's it's i think mochi sweet down and sweet race and they're made into balls and roll and sesame live kind of hollow in the middle they have like been in the middle those are good he had those were driving from democratic come from other nation this was on a trip where as a trip hazard
as a trip okay not that it has habit that would be good at catholic so decide on the ingredients of the different courses for breakfast and lunch after discussion with all of the temple administrators so we do this in we do this in the staff meeting with look looking not daily but we try to do it
on a regular basis going through the menus
i love to have things still going to that were done in the twelve hundred and eleven hundred and nine hundred and
it's so well i know connecting
then it talks about the temple administrators the book gg after agreeing on the different courses right a menu and posted on the sign boards and both the average human amongst steady ah now this is
have we been posting the menu to make the marriage been posting well i'm super mario
so oreo aoki meals that posted in cornwall yes and then otherwise that posted in the dining room right and it a harrods posted whether it's or aoki mueller not it's always posted right outside the zendo so you can look at the menu now
this severe your practice to write the menu and posted i just find that so when your third kind of posted to spread before the right i know i would like to be posted actually very exposed them
are in position in the kitchen for the rams was to build a new year it's posted it for the cut sheets and there's a year after year i talk with a tenth of a posting on the sign boards i actually like collecting
the
ordinary the effect on job
and it's also posted at the attitude and amongst steady hall so it's i don't know where the sideboards were a bit it would be posted in different places so you'll see what the but the meals were going to be for the day
okay just one more next get ready the following morning's breakfast select the rice and prepare the vegetables by yourself with your own hands
watching closely with sincere diligence you should not tend to some things and neglect or be slapped with others for even one moment so that points to this
ah you know these are more important and i won't look at the use and this kind of even mindedness about each thing each thing you give you full attention to
and of course you know in a big kitchen with you have to delegate right you can't the tens of physically cannot do the ordering an make the soup and you know but down this is the feeling and for all of us working in the kitchen and doing these jobs to attend not
no week we all have a sudden people really love to sweep can i sweep you know rebel been cancelled
here comes the story
if we'd we'd get the meal out we serve in the zendo that we have a meal then we clean up and then and last thing we would do before it was a break with sweep we that would be the last thing in the kitchen any sweep do the counters and sweep and i remember certain things would be demi and pupils in case we could i sweep cause sweeping meant
read just about that you know if it gets you could start sweeping it without breakdown so this we have we like certain jobs right other ones we don't leave some people don't like to touch the sponges you know so they don't like to wipe down the counters other people
can you know how it is so i'm like lettuce other people don't like to take the compost out some people love to take the cup without you know it just depends so this thing of sincerely watching fairly each thing not to be you know picking and choosing what you can neglect i wanted to get to this i know
he sits down further yeah anyway i'm just gonna finish this no i'm not will pick up where i left off because i don't want to go past nine
so
so think about for the week handling things as if it were your own eyesight or your own eyes and not attending to some things and neglect him to the other heaviness even minded and full not slacking off feeling
see what happens
see what happens
okay thank you
what is that it's not always a good stead for gwen
when we are in china this last hotel we stayed at it was a five star hotel that was the one we stayed at in beijing and when we went to bed at night they did have chocolate on our pillows so this is kind of a five star hotel don't have been keeping up with you from
they also the chocolate by the way was in this little envelope and i'm avalon there were
it was a forecast for the next day's weather so there was sunny cloudy rainy and then they would check one of them whatever the forecast was for the next day
i proud that was i thought we should actually do that matter a guest house well well
actually the tide charts
the web to know when the times on
it for swimming in be of a walk at the weekend
can pick you very much
me