What is Zen Buddhism? 

You do realize that Chan is A Derivative of Dhyana, which is A Derivative of Gyana - Which Essentially Means Knowledge of Self. This Heaven You Claim You Experience in China, maybe Equalized toTerms Such as Nirvana, Moksha, Samadhi etc. Difference between Buddhism & Hinduism could be this: The Buddhist Void (which you call your Chinese Heaven) is Just Another Way of Describing The Hindu Conception of God as Brahman (The Vast) Peace

Essentially, Buddha "IS" the Heaven you speak of. And Hindu Knowers of Brahman Are Permanently Based In It ONE

Thank you for a valuable addition to the discussion!

Can you tell me a little bit about the process of entering a monastery, I'm extremely interested in experiencing monastic life and especially zen.

@@TheCaptainFanta If you are interested, look for a legitimate Chan/Zen teacher, center, or monastery near you and just visit, take part in the meditation meetings and such. It's important to get a sense of whether the teacher is right for you, before committing to extended time in a center or monastery.

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I also regard myself as lucky to tumble into this channel. I do research on how Buddhism disappeared in Bihar. I realized it never disappeared from Bihar. Buddhists simply failed to research Indian Buddhism. They looked at Buddhism through the sphere of their own cultures searching for only the Buddha. Buddha had a myriad of names in different villages according to his teachings there. Example. His favorite teaching was 'Lust and desire causes pain. Remove lust and desire, and pain is removed'. Translated into Bihari (where the Buddha story took place) it is DHUKH HARAN meaning to remove dukha. Three dozen villages pray to DUKH HARAN Baba. Its clear that DUKH HARAN Baba is none other than the Buddha. Problem is Buddhists are searching only for the Buddha. In the real Vaishali the Buddha begged for alms. The locals there pray to 'BHIKHAINI' Baba (Beggar Baba). Bhikhaini was mispronounced by Buddhists as Bhikshu. Who is BHIKHAINI Baba. The Buddha no doubt. But people are searching for a man called Buddha. In the real Vaishali, in Beluha the Buddha suffered a sickness and felt he had grown old. The locals pray to 'BURHA' Baba (Old Baba). Who is BURHA Baba. The Buddha no doubt. In the real Vaishali the Lichavies pressurized Buddha not to die. They trailed him to Bandagawan pressurizing him not to die. To put pressure in Hindi is DABESHWAR. Three dozen villages around the stupa where Buddha gave the Lichavies his patra, the villagers pray to Baba 'DABESHWAR NATH' meaning the man who won the pressurizing game. It was the the Buddha no doubt as he gave the Lichavies his patra and succeded in sending them back. But Buddhists are searching for the Buddha. In Pidhauli (Vaishali) the local deity is Bardiha Baba. Bardiha means the Baba who didn't allow us to stay where he was staying. Bardiha Baba is the Buddha no doubt because he didn't allow the crowd of Lichavies to stay with him in Bandagama. Forgive me for commenting out of the topic. I just wanted to impart this information to you.

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Maybe next he'll cover Zelda

​@@rayne6719religion for breakfast did one, if you are interested.

Sorry, dear friend... Not 'finally!' "Now" a meditation on Buddhism 🙏🏼 Namaskar 🌏🌎🌍🕊️ For us all ✨🌈🌌

Yes, these videos make a real difference. Please allow me to interrupt. I do research on how Buddhism disappeared in Bihar. I realized it never disappeared from Bihar. Buddhists simply failed to research Indian Buddhism. They looked at Buddhism through the sphere of their own cultures searching for only the Buddha. Buddha had a myriad of names in different villages according to his teachings there. Example. His favorite teaching was 'Lust and desire causes pain. Remove lust and desire, and pain is removed'. Translated into Bihari (where the Buddha story took place) it is DHUKH HARAN meaning to remove dukha. Three dozen villages pray to DUKH HARAN Baba. Its clear that DUKH HARAN Baba is none other than the Buddha. Problem is Buddhists are searching only for the Buddha. In the real Vaishali the Buddha begged for alms. The locals there pray to 'BHIKHAINI' Baba (Beggar Baba). Bhikhaini was mispronounced by Buddhists as Bhikshu. Who is BHIKHAINI Baba. The Buddha no doubt. But people are searching for a man called Buddha. In the real Vaishali, in Beluha the Buddha suffered a sickness and felt he had grown old. The locals pray to 'BURHA' Baba (Old Baba). Who is BURHA Baba. The Buddha no doubt. In the real Vaishali the Lichavies pressurized Buddha not to die. They trailed him to Bandagawan pressurizing him not to die. To put pressure in Hindi is DABESHWAR. Three dozen villages around the stupa where Buddha gave the Lichavies his patra, the villagers pray to Baba 'DABESHWAR NATH' meaning the man who won the pressurizing game. It was the the Buddha no doubt as he gave the Lichavies his patra and succeded in sending them back. But Buddhists are searching for the Buddha. In Pidhauli (Vaishali) the local deity is Bardiha Baba. Bardiha means the Baba who didn't allow us to stay where he was staying. Bardiha Baba is the Buddha no doubt because he didn't allow the crowd of Lichavies to stay with him in Bandagama. Forgive me for commenting out of the topic. I just wanted to impart this information to you.

Hello dear. I love to research about different mystical ways, philosophies, psychological subjects and religions. I am practicing zen meditation and mindfulness every day and I am reading late Thich Nhat Hanh books and listen to his speeches and also Pema Chodron. I love him. I grew up in an Islamic culture in Iran and I love Sufism and Iranian divine philosophy. My question to you is can I have your email or your WhatsApp no or your social media to have a relationship with you for asking questions about Buddhism. I will be so happy if you accept my request. Thanks

A necessary functional development in times of inescapable suffering!

I do my best, at least!

Kwatsss ! Traditional Master shout - from Zen or the sound of that wooden slat - smacked across the shoulders of the meditator - in Zen, again. Hee hee. Seriously. You have developed a useful and inspiring - world view - to help individuals and whole groups. Fare thee well. @@LetsTalkReligion

Emptiness is literally interdependence yup

I have watched many RU-vid videos on Zen and I truly didn’t understand until the part of your video where you talk about the tree and the non specificity of all inter connected everything. I am also glad that you have much better words than I do. 😂

should be chen instead...

I think it was the other way around. Since 照三歸知, chan could in be the early day be pronunced as *dyan.

Thank you!

The Way of the Cross...? The Way of Submission (Islam)...? No, that can't be right! Only my cup is the one to drink from. Not those other cups!

The Buddha was the OG of psychiatry/psychotherapy.. Even Freudian psychoanalysis is an iteration of the idea that the truth will set you free. The Rub in concepts like Radical Acceptance is developing the wisdom and the courage to recognize reality which is the precondition of being able to Accept it. Good comment and I hope it encourages people to look into DBT as a path for their own growth. There is a lot we can do to help ourselves; we don't always have to turn to experts to hold up the mirror for us. Best wishes.

As has Stoicism

I fell the very same way you did…

Huineng is my neng-ga

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@@lordjesuschristisgodandsaviour He loves you too, random citizen.

Love does just that ..... excellent note - from yourself. @@d512634

Very interesting, thank you!

Also seconding Religion For Breakfast if you want to do more deep dives, fellow viewers.

yeap zen teacher.. ahaa

What were those errors?

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I want to cover all those topics!

@@LetsTalkReligion Thank you! Hopefully we will see those topics soon!

That's him at 41:41

Alan Watts raised me back in the sixties, hahaha. The Original Spiritual Gangster. I hope you are familiar with all the recordings of his lectures and talks and radio shows available on youtube. And for everyone else out there -- if you are not familiar with Alan Watts *you really haven't lived*.

Trikaya is not really that important in Zen, but why do you find it interesting? Is it because of the holly trinity? Zen actually goes to the point where Trikaya is ignored. I think that Zen is getting a completely difference face in contact with the West and in a 100 year or more we will have a whole new school of Buddhism. It's already very different from what is taught in the east.

​@@enterthevoidIiThe Trikaya isn't really ignored in Zen, you see references to it all the time in teachings by Zen masters. Western zen teachers may downplay it to make Buddhism seem more secular, but I'd argue that that isn't even the standard here in the west.

@@SonofSethoitae yeah it is, maybe in the west it's mentioned more due to influences from outside of zen, but in japan/china, it's insignificant

@@enterthevoidIi ...not correct? The trikaya is pretty foundational to Huayan philosophy, which in turn is foundational to Chan/Zen. It's also fundamental to the Mahayana conception of the universe. It's mentioned often in the writings of Chinese and Japanese masters.

@@SonofSethoitae once again, it is not important in zen, it is mentioned, for example, hakuin wrote about it, but it is not important and it's often ignored

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suffering is just another chosen perception and it doesnt exist objectively ecept in own emotional perception usually more inherited with culture and repeated learned from environment program than triggered by emotional part of brain affecting reptile brain you can train decoupling but it will not be absolute if you stay in environment which stimulates this response you can avoid it avoiding the environment as long as program isnt too strong keeping you caught in world of past if you surround with suffering people you will suffer yourself except if you teach them to decouple from it you are not born suffering no baby suffers focusing on suffering itself will activate brain overthinking this artificial concept

Thier is no chinese Buddhism first of all. India influenced China culturally 😂😂 China used sanskrit names 😂😂😂.

@xijinping9024 When I said Chinese mahayana buddhism, I meant, when it got transmitted to china and how it transformed to its own thing. I'm glad you had a good laugh.

The word itself is sanskrit. China used dhyaan which is meditation in sanskrit language into chan.. So technically india dominated china culturally 😆😆 and infant japan also.....

@@adamng5338 so you are saying that bodhisattva and bodhidharma who were the father and founder of zen Buddhism were not real???😆😆 What a top level of asshole you are 😆😆

@xijinping9024 Thank you for showing your intentions, which has no relevance to any discussion. Have a great day.

Chinese monk Daoxuan (flourished 7th century) about a century after Bodhidharma’s death. As his legend grew, Bodhidharma was credited with the teaching that meditation was a return to the Buddha’s precepts. He was also credited with aiding the monks of Shaolin Monastery-famous for their prowess in the martial arts-in meditation and training. During the Tang dynasty (618-907), he came to be regarded as the first patriarch of the tradition that was subsequently known as Chan in China, Zen in Japan, Sŏn in Korean, and Thien in Vietnam. Those names correspond to the pronunciation of the Sanskrit word dhyana (“meditation”) in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, respectively. Bodhidharma was also considered to be the 28th Indian patriarch in a direct line of transmission from the Buddha. Most traditional accounts state that Bodhidharma was a South Indian dhyana master, possibly a Brahman, who traveled to China perhaps in the late 5th century. About 520 he was granted an interview with the Nan (Southern) Liang emperor Wudi, who was noted for his good works.

Thanks Reyna!

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What a beautiful little koan!