The Contemporary Training of a Zen Buddhist Monk 

Video starts at 9:20

Thank you for sharing this! Insightful and wonderful 😊

Zen buddhism is amazing, especially when it teaches through wise, short stories: ↕️

🙏🙏🙏 Thank you Matsubarasan. You habe given me so many anservs to my struggle in Zen Training in Japan. I wish you would give lectures in Europe.

The woman at 1:07:00 is spot on. The martial attitude is a great tool and learning device to separate the wheat from the chaff within someone and get them straight and get proper habits developed, but eventually it does have to be regulated or let go in exchanged for a balanced method that includes compassion and loving kindness.

Daoism saved a Zen master. Fascinating.

How wonderful he understoods meditation can have side effects. I've been teaching meditation for many years and its always discouraging to hear other instructors presenting meditation as a 100% safe practice.

🙏🍀❤ Thank you!

Would anyone post a copy of the handout to go along with this? Much appreciated in advance....

Fascinating

🤣🤣🤣 well this explains so much of the things I have gone through. Thank you for the video

thnks!

As a man of few words, this is dedicated to those who would practice 'zazen': ' just two meters before you, at a glance - is the dropping off point'. Lax:Re. How much simpler can this be? Thanks for this upload.

The p'eng tsu description sounds incredibly close to shamata/jhana practice

zen is like tea, its not ment to be spoken about, nor taught, nor learned just drink the tea

Is it possible attend Rinzai Zen temple at Japan?? (not Soto, I would like to go within Rinzai shu)

Very nice.

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Anybody have a link to his handout?

Be light...water

Bald man from Saitama has immediate street cred nowadays. I'm just joining in, but thank you already for making this available.

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Seems like a great guy. I guess his Buddhist training must have worked.

29:55 sounds a lot like upacara-samadhi / access concentration

He reminds me of ..,

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

16:35

🎉

That Zen overeating tradition mentioned at 1:00:00 is truly bizarre.

Tuberculosis? Hasn't anyone ever heard of "lung imbalance" from the Tibetan tradition when someone meditates excessively/incorrectly? "Self induced neurotic breakdown" sounds like a correct description.

feels ironic

Wws

I was in shock that a university would bring in a religious figure to talk, then he said social justice and i understood. My heart aches for the future of buddhism

These people talk about the idea of Zen as if it's an idea that can be talked about. I think the first mistake was that they began talking about it without talking about the fact that they are talking about it, instead of first of all making the distinction that it fundamentally isn't an idea and therefore cannot be talked about adequately. Blah blah, you get the point.

Five years in zen training is nothing. An abbot, after 5 years? Preposterous!

New Age Sewage.

I would like to comment (for what it's worth), but I'm sure some people will dislike me for it. Now I have huge respect for zen, Rinzai zen, monks,etc... otherwise I would not watch this video. But I'm a little confused, this man is certainly not a sholar of university level in my opinion, I've had courses at the university (In Europe) but the academic level was 100 times higher than this. He doesn't even not go deep into his subject. No real insights, nothing original. The most interesting is when he doesn't read from his paper and talks a little of his own experience. But imho, that's not at an academic level at all. I have the feeling this is a bit like the emperor's clothes, people tend to admire him because he is a zen monk, not because of what he says. So I don't want to insult this man, I'm sure as a zen monk he achieved something, like Satori for example. And please don't give me this nonsense: "yes the message is simple, but with your western mind, you are not able to grasp it". I'm deep into zen en Christian contemplation, I have read dozens of books so I do have a notion of it, and I know that simple phrases can contain huge wisdom. I just mean, he practically does not seem to talk in depth about his subject, answers besides the questions that are asked,... It's just strange to me

We think we know what this is 🤣 what is it?