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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Thank you for being a teacher to many you will never know. 🙏
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I've been practicing on my own for a few years, but I just found a zendo with a pretty active sangha. It's Sanbo Kyodan. Could you please make a video about your take on this style?
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This is phenomenon is known as good hair day :)
Viva Ziggy!
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This really made me think. It's kinda stressful to keep striving for this end of seeking to have an abiding enlightenment state. Sometimes I'll get a feeling of oneness, I guess, when looking at the beauty of trees and nature or during meditation. But I've heard stories that if you're enlightened, you feel like one with kitchen appliances, lamps, and literally everything in existence. And they say if you look at someone, they become like they're actually yourself. But, I've never experienced oneness like that. Just a strong love for others, compassion, and more happiness exc. That's why I think I'm not in an abiding awakened. Any thought? Idk 🤷♀️
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Good talk, down-to-earth. What works for me is my daily practice, painful though it often is. If I don't sit, or procrastinate, I always suffer more, in the end. Occasionally there can be special moments. I found this more likely when I was able to do a sesshin, Sadly that's rare now! But when there was a teacher around to be with afterwards, it was really cool, and made things deeper....it's good you point that out. This analysis helps me undrstand why I no longer search out books like Krishnamurti and all that....I think you hit the nail on the head, as to why a path and a tradition can be much more reliable. But I don't recently search or hope for something explosive; it is just enough to sit daily and live the challenges of my life!
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I once stumbled upon this line in a Tibetan text, "Enlightenment is impermanent." A student of mine immediately retorted, "Impermanent is Enlightenment," at which point both she and I had "an expansive awakening."
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The best description I've found is given in the:
"Sūtra of Mahā-Prajñā-Pāramitā Pronounced by Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva"
Translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in the Southern Liang Dynasty
by The Tripiṭaka Master Mandra from Funan
Which can be easily found by searching on the Net.
It's called: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi.
(Sorry, but just as you when fulfill any desire your self grasps at, reading about it is not going to be as satisfying as you had hoped. But the description is spot on, and for 'technical reasons,' that's as good as it gets.)
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"[Enlightenment] it's going to be completely different from anything you could have ever conceived of it being"
Yes.
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It can last forever, so to speak, but it doesn't prevail at all times in all settings. It can be there to dip into and apply as and when. It's helpful to practice ongoingly in order to prepare the mind to have that experience in a way that can actually help, and to develop the capacity to sustain it as I describe.
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Your hair is enlightened.
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always appreciated, always loved.
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Brad, this is what I like a lot about Zen and about your channel, this video encapsulate this, it isn't so much about if metaphysical things and enlightment are achievable, for they are and people reach them either with tradition,drugs or spontaneously, what it's all about is "sure, and what then?" about continuity and humility in our experience and in trying to eep u with the present in the less clingy way. IMO anyway!
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Interesting. Enlightenment is permanent in that it changes you permanently. You can't undo it. You can't unsee something you have seen, no matter how hard you try. On the other hand you can't stay in the moment of enlightenment, so in that sense it isn't permanent. It is something we need to have experienced, and then move on with our lives, permanently changed.
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Was Nisaragadata Maharaj in a constant enlightened state? Seems like it.
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So down to earth, funny and wise as usual and what’s great hair day! 👍😊👏🏿
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This is your best video to date. Wholly agree with you on several points.
Diggin’ the hair!
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🙏🙏🙏
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Have you red "supreme doctrine" from Hubert Benoit? Here he kind of describes what this kind of state could be and how it maybe could happen.
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Time is a byproduct of enlightenment. if you experience time whatsoever, you're already "enlightened" even if you don't realize so. The notion of "enlightenment" thus amounts to either realizing that sentience = enlightenment, or remaining ignorant of this. The highest sort of enlightenment realizes the absolute, timeless, formless, and eternal aspect of all reality, this being a "timeless" experience, not a "permanent state of mind" for the person undergoing self-realization.
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@Yeti_Boop
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Hey Brad, I've been reading your books since 2008 and to this day you're my favorite zen teacher. Of course I love Katagiri, Okumura and Suzuki, but you've always been down to earth and in my opinion honest about something that people often dress up and overhype. Just wanted to say thanks for the books, these videos and occasionally making me laugh with a dumb joke.
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