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Eckhart takes us on a journey with a wise zen master and his curious disciple as they explore the essence of Zen through a picturesque mountain stream.
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You are new age JK, eckhart
" Perhaps there is no other religion that has made your whole life, twenty-four hours a day, a meditative experience. Zen does not believe in meditating one hour in the morning, or one hour in the night. It does not make meditation a separate, particular act. It wants meditation to become a quality of your being.
So whatever you are doing — walking, sitting, standing, lying down, chopping wood, carrying water from the well, it does not matter. Whatever you are doing, you are doing it so silently, so peacefully, without any stirring of thoughts in your mind. Then your whole life has become meditation. You go to bed silently, you wake up silently, and one day you will realize that you also sleep silently — as thoughts disappear, dreams also disappear. Then the circle is complete.
For Zen, meditation has to be a twenty-four-hour affair. It is not some extra act that you have to do. It is not a Sunday religion — for six days do everything you want to do, but at least on the seventh day, on Sunday, go to the church for one hour and you are a great Christian. It is absolutely illogical, and absurd. Just going to the church for one hour, and then living your mundane life with greed, with anger, with delusion, is not going to transform you. And no Jesus can save you.
Religion has to become something like your heartbeat. Meditation has to become something like your breathing. Whatever you are doing, you are breathing; it is not a separate action. And only then are you saturated, in every fiber of your being, with meditativeness."
And, the opposite of zen is ignoring, ignorance and all of the avoidant attitudes. Some people believe that enlightment, the beginning of zen starts with psychedelics, but it really starts with nature, the very origin of life.
Beautiful ❤
ahh lower the music plz
My mind doesn’t stop focusing on The Deadly Chemtrails Everyday!
this guy will never know if he has pink eye
Zen stories are so beautiful…✨🙏
Endless thanks 💓🙏
thankyou 🙏 🥰 🌹 💝
Nature is me… me and nature are one. Thank you.
If you are a fan of "Power of now" , i suggest a Zen book called "Nisshitsu" . It's a POWERFUL book. I think Eckhart is quoting this story from there.
I'm favoured only God knows how much I praise Him, $230k every 4weeks! I now have a big mansion and can now afford anything and also support God’s work and the church.
I liked the stream at the end.
You know I have become aware that even in sleep my brain keeps going! It seems the only real peace I’ll find is by separating the thinker from the observer (since I can’t stop thought)
In actual presence there is real joy! It’s the present moment. Mind has a tendency to still project the past onto the now and to be concerned with the future. But actual presence is seeing past the illusion of past and future.
I am free just to be 😌
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He always makes me laugh, but that joke " pilgrimage, is the ancient name for 'hike'.."
Hilarious!
I think you just stay right at the fork in the road and get off at the 3rd exit for Zen State.
Thank you spiritual dad of another time 🎉
This works for me.
You are a great teacher ❤
Thank you Eckhart ❤ 🎶 ❤
No way to control thoughts but found it useful to put a "space" between me and the thoughts by simply saying, "Look at all these thoughts! Now that's a thought!" etc and then these thoughts will not only become separate of me but it also pushes me into the observer, my soul. It's also like a flashlight shining light on these thoughts … and the thoughts quickly dissipate, because darkest can not live in the light!
I just love this quote!
You need not leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, simply wait.
You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet
And still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you
To be unmasked. It has no choice;
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
–Franz Kafka
Let me break this down as I see it.
Quote ' the mind, such a wonderfull tool", then who is using that tool because a tool cannot use itself. More to the point, who formed that tool the mind, in fact the mind cannot be a tool because the mind is only the faculty of consciousness and thought and consciousness and thought is not a physical thing.
The brain on the other hand is of a material physical nature that functions as the coordinating centre of sensation.
So what formed the brain to be used as its tool.
Because the brain did not form itself nor the body and the body did not form itself nor the Brain, so what formed the brain and the body.
The material physical source that formed the brain and the body does not require entering a Zen state because that source within does not require it's tool the brain to achieve sudden enlightenment because it does'nt require transcending, because the brains source that formed it, is the enlightenment iteration function unto itself.
This teacher evades explaining how the material physical source derived to form the intelligent species because if that was known by a teacher/master, then one would be all knowing and no need for questions and answers.
By the way, a selfie is not a reflection of yourself in a pool of water because that reflection can't be taken and sent. Der!
Funny guy 😊
Zen = attention to now