Dogen's Zazen Instructions 

I'd say that what Ziggy wants the most is to interact: communication.

I'm watching this 2 years in the future! Wow, what a time to be alive and I ain't even Dogen!

First, congratulations on your upcoming wedding! Second, my favorite moment of this entire video is the following exchange at 14:51 -- "Ziggy, I don't know what you want. Hold on, let me finish reading this, okay?" "Woof!"

Appreciated Ziggy's wordless transmission :)

Wow Brad ! Congratulations on your Marriage! Blessings!

Many blessings master brad 🙏🧎‍♂️

Congrats Brad, hope your wedding goes well!

I was always told to wish the groom “Congratulations!” and the bride “Good luck!” Lol. So congrats to you and good luck to your fiancée!

Congratulations, Brad! Wish you all the happiness!

I'm not saying Zazen is a completely physical action. But it's a completely physical action.

Congratulations! May you guys be happy, healthy and free of suffering!

In the background there's a lovely bird, which several times salutes Dogen's and your words with a twit-twit 🐦

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

First comes love, then comes marriage... All the best to you & your bride, Brad! 💏

Something I heard recently was to "make yourself like a tripod" by making sure you keep the knees apart like the bottom of a triangle and beneath your hips. Never heard that tip before but makes sense.

Congratulations Brad!

Congratulations! And I am so happy you added the thing with Ziggy at the end. And don't waste too much time watching reruns of The Flintstones!

Interesting that in the Spanish translation from Nishijima text they say "When we arise from sitting"

CONGRATULATIONS BRAD! I wish all the happiness and contentedness that the Bodhisattvas can stand to give up for you and yours ;) (I'll twist their arm and get you a little more than average)

Congratulations, Brad :)

Congrats, Brad!

The helicopters must be patrolling for those UFOs that are always flying around your neighborhood! Congratulations on getting married! :)

Congratulations Sensei, many happy years.

Congratulations Brad!!

DUDE!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Congrats sir!!

congrats brad!

Congratulations from the UK!

congratulations :) wishing you well

Congratulations on the wedding Brad! Interesting that one of the black helicopters haunting UFO contactees flies over you when you're wearing an "ancient aliens" T-shirt, by the way...

Congratulations and enjoy Vegas!

I never thought about how gross seminal sounds, but you’re absolutely right

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Congratulations Brad. Would love a Vegas/Zen-themed video…

I keep expecting 80s action movie style machine gun fire sound effects Edit: also I'm starting to pay more attention to Brad's interactions with Ziggy more. Is it crazy to think he's trying to teach something?

Woohoo! Congratulations!

Congratulations!!!

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 - and please do the Prajna video!

All the Best!

June 26 is my birthday!! Congrats! i love your work 😃❤ thank you😁🙏

Wow! Congrats!

Congrats! Have an awesome wedding and marriage!

many blessings for your marriage

BD.1.36 “Is it true, Sudinna, that you had sexual intercourse with your former wife?” “It is true, Master.” MS.70 The Buddha, the Master, rebuked him: “Foolish man, it is not suitable it is not becoming, it is not proper, it is unworthy of a recluse, it is not allowable, it is not to be done. How could you go forth in such a well-proclaimed Dhamma and training and not be able for life to practice the perfectly complete and pure spiritual life? Have I not taught the Dhamma in many ways for the sake of dispassion … When the Dhamma has been taught by me for the sake of dispassion, how can you be intent upon passion? … Have I not in many ways declared the abandoning of sense pleasures … the stilling of the fever of sense pleasures? It would be better, foolish man, for your male organ to enter the mouth of a terrible and poisonous snake than to enter a woman. It would be better for your male organ to enter the mouth of a black snake than to enter a woman. It would be better for your male organ to enter a charcoal pit, burning, ablaze, afire, than to enter a woman. Why is that? Because for that reason you might die or experience deadly suffering, but you would not on that account, at the breaking up of the body after death, be reborn in the plane of misery, a bad destination, the abyss, hell. But for this reason, at the breaking up of the body after death, you might be reborn in the plane of misery, Vin.3.21 a bad destination, the abyss, hell. Foolish man, you have practised what is contrary to the true Dhamma, the common BD.1.37 practice, the low practice, the coarse practice, that which ends with a wash, that which is done in private, that which is done wherever there are couples. You are the forerunner, the first performer of many unwholesome things. It will not give rise to confidence in those without it, nor increase the confidence of those who have it, but it will hinder confidence in those without it and it will cause some with confidence to change their minds.” MS.71 Then the Master, having rebuked Venerable Sudinna in various ways, spoke in dispraise of being difficult to support and maintain, in dispraise of great desires, lack of contentment, socialising and laziness, but he spoke in praise in various ways of being easy to support and maintain, of desiring little, contentment, self-effacement, ascetic practices, serenity, decrease of defilements, and of the putting forth of energy. Having given a Dhamma talk on what was right and seemly, he addressed the monks: “On account of this, monks, I will lay down a training rule for the monks for the following ten reasons: for the well-being of the Sangha, for the comfort of the Sangha, for the restraint of recalcitrant people, for the ease BD.1.38 of well-behaved monks, for the restraint of corruptions that pertain to the present life and for warding off corruptions that pertain to future lives, to give rise to confidence in those without it and to increase the confidence of those who have it, for the continuation of the true Dhamma and for supporting the training. And, monks, this training rule should be recited thus: First preliminary ruling MS.72 If a monk has sexual intercourse, he is expelled and not in communion.”

Is Zen meditation like mindfulness meditation in the sense that you are supposed to try and notice what you do, in fact, notice? Like, you try and notice what you notice, then you will inevitably drift away with your thoughts and upon noticing this, you come back to try and notice what you notice? (If that makes sense now.) Or are you just supposed to sit and do nothing, try nothing?

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

congrats, dude

Or maybe we 0:31 are watching from the past! ❤

Blessings on your upcoming Divine union 📿🤵👰💐🐞🥂💒 safe travels 🙏❤️

Congratulations

I can’t believe you’re in Vegas today, that’s where I live, I want to stalk you haha. If you haven’t been, check out the newly revamped Pinball Museum Hall of Fame. Worth it for the KISS and Star Trek machines alone! Oh and congrats on the upcoming nuptials 🖖🏼

Do you have a list of books you’ve talked about on your channel?

Congratulations! 👏 With any luck there's an ET Chapel with a George Tsakalos impersonator to do the ceremony for you folks. If not, well, an Elvis impersonator will do just dandy. And hoping a quick jaunt to Area 51 too! 👽🛸 So safe travels. All my best to you and the future Mrs. See ya! 🤙💒

Please make a whole video on parjna 🙌🙌🙌

Congratulations and blessings Brad. Hope you will share 💒 pics.🙏🏽 Hope you can go somewhere nice to celebrate. Could you explain the bit about people dying doing zazen? I had always taken it to mean dropping off body and mind but not actually passing away. I wonder if Ziggy is barking at alien 👽 beings we humans can’t see!

Congratulations!! Marriage in Las Vegas!!

Mazel tov!

I think ziggy is giving you his opinion on what your reading...🙂

No effing way

Mazel Tov

mazel tov

:)

I’m getting divorced on 25 June. Good luck.

Can monastics in the Soto zen tradition get married?

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Good luck for your marriage! Will you nevertheless come to Europe in September or will you be on your honeymoon instead?

Congratulations!

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!