Zen Master Eido Roshi answers the question, 'Does God exist?' 

@@mydreamsarecomingtrue well.... There are so many souls that are living in strife.

@@petermihacerar1137, And thou art Peter, Peace be with you.

He is converted to protestantism lmao

Why did a Zen Buddhist even go to church in the first place?

@@petermihacerar1137 There are souls living in strife because of direct suffering caused by the sexual predator and unrepentant sociopath interviewed here.

Buddhist answer: No flute. Just your mind hearing the flute.

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Yes, any time you speak or think of Buddha, a flute starts to play spontaneously

And in South America, it's a Pan Flute.

You have unlock it like in a video game. Level 20 above : flute Level 50 above : gong Level 100: ultra instinct

You mean the sex offender hit the nail on the head, don't you? Don't call him a Roshi.

Unfortunately what this account failed to tell you is this man is a notorious sexual predator who has been kicked out of his zen community for faking concern for people that came to him to practice Zen and then sexually exploiting and abusing them. He's a pariah in the Zen world but boy does he sound convincing when presented as a spiritual teacher to a clueless audience full of people who don't know the truth. Google Eido Shimano and you'll hear the truth.

@Seán White there is no past there is no future ,the moment is now.

My destiny is up to me but I must also do a particular thing? Lol 😂

Fo shoooo

@@Masterhughesproductions stop narrowing what you have been given by nature

Duration theory of Henry bergeson explain the moment

You have to welcome yourself of your inner being, since it can see with eyes wide closed.

I noticed that too. Tho zen doesn't rely on books so they just stacked up like that.

Exactly like my book piles lol - made me feel better about my stacks.

Robert Epstein now you can just say that your books are staked properly according to Zen Lol

Yes, that is a relief. :)

Yes, I sense a good sense of humour in that :)

eyeofasoul "The tao that can be named is not the eternal toa" -Lao tzu

eyeofasoul yep the unamed one is you and you the one. be

LOL, so full of yourself. Do you realize you sound like a conceited condescending fool ?

surrender to whats happening now. 'it is' . 'you are' . be

@t f who /what the fuck is greavsie? I looked it up and it not an English Word.

Oh come on, stop idolizing forms of what you are in truth now :P

@@victornilsson2816 oh just shut the fuck up you moron. You think you know more than the monk giving the interview? What is your problem? Stay in your limits. Fuck off from my comment box. Oh come on, stop writing some meaningless English words, if you don't understood what he says

Thanks for the explanation. really helped

Desert Fathers like Evagrius Ponticus said hundreds of years before Zen arrived in Japan: "God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped,he wouldn't be God".

No, he absolutely did not say this. This is your wanting, your attachment to what you would like to hear. If you want to understand something new, you must stop saying "I already know."

@@starfishsystems Is it right to use Buddhist terminology in assumptive way when you haven't asked him before what he meant by his statement? He could've simply misunderstood the monk.

I learned this the hard way as a Christian trying to defend my beliefs. There's always another perspective. But trying to encompass it all seem futile too. Remaining silent in the face of it all seems doable. Taking each moment. Accomplishing small tasks as they appear before me. Taking life very simply. Very lightly.

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Yes...after a while, it makes us feel inferior to life itself to answer questions of a God. It's hard to disclaim the idea that the universe was made, and we are to, but to subject our thoughts to someone creating a universe, only to have us as inferiors would be slave-minded thinking. If it were true, and a discovery of such, then we could say by understanding it, we've escaped our slave minds and therefor, we are at a level of godly understanding. In each case, God is only what we choose to create it is.

+Luke McCallum I was watching a move today from 1975 and the thought arose of a koan "where were you before you were born?" I just laid a trap for my self LOL.

Trouble is Buddha wouldn't wish for you to love him! But I know why we do... It's because we still haven't turned off the internal chatter

I wrote a piece of music called Koan Ahead... It's on my channel

Absolutely Perfect without the first 4 words of your statement.

In the novel Shogun Hawthorne witnessed Japanese warriors execute a man without any remorse. It dawned on Hawthorne that the Japanese had no concept of sin. I asked my Japanese mother about this and she said it was true. My mother, Yasuko, was a Christian but she did make that admission.

I wish that some Christians had higher standars of what is the truth. This man just denied the existence of a Creator and a Christian called him truthful.

@@laudante24 You are correct.

I think you can be a Christian while training Buddhism. It's less a religion than a training system for mental health I think. Zazen is a great practice.

There is none wise but God

Olivia L idiotic music. Jackass producers

What’s music ?

Only one Supreme. It is not man.

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Wtf..Lol

It is when the master smacks you around the head for asking silly questions... or thinking too much😊

Amon Ra because that’s the problem they’re getting at to stop putting a meaning to each and every individual thing in life. The purpose of life is to live that is all nothing else you’ve already beaten the odds of even being alive right now

😂😂

Take your hand Smash it to your face Become a Buddha

Hear, hear. It's not an episode of 'Kung Fu'. Besides, music is for listening to mindfully and fully, not merely for 'hearing' in the background. You wouldn't play a track of someone speaking French over the top of this, surely?

No

Shikantaza : if you are distracted or bothered the answer to why is much closer....not external

@@robertdillon9989 Interesting response. Why so curt, I wonder? Is this your usual manner of responding to enquiries about disability access?

That's me playing the flute, if you dont like my music you aren't enlightened dude frig off

Il raconte quoi?

Anyone can be an INTJ if they practice those attitudes, fixed personality types are a misconception

Are we just making random statements that have nothing to do with the video?

Statements like this is what made me turn away form Christianity. Believe in me or go to hell. Right?

None of us can create The Big Bang like the real God

But I get what you're saying

"Be still and know that I am GOD." The answer right there. GOD is in us, the breath of life .,God is outside us as well. GOD is everything, all of it. GOD exists, go inside and connect. It's all in there, so simple. Simple.

Except for the rest of Bible where yahwei is anything but zen

In the beginning, man created god in his own images and likeness....

He no longer teachers Zen and was forced to forfeit his title due to multiple sexual misconduct cases. Apparently he was acting inappropriately with female students during zazen. I do not say this to speak ill of him. Just stating his current status.

Makes more sense than the Christian creator right?

hahaha

Now I see it like you do. Thanks for making my existence just a little more cynical and hopeless.

You don't need to find anything, Get back! Still in your path and learn in your way -- Don't blind

-AND A GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR!

FULLY ENLIGHTENED!!!!!!!

enlightened answer ahaha

The train goes thru the mountains.

The wife’s rusty sheriffs badge smells like cat food of the fish variety.

What he is saying is that our language is built around dualism which is an illusion. There is no such dualism in reality. Words are just concepts that are used to describe by division. This is not what reality is. Reality is not divisible. Saying the universe is spiritual is a concept. Saying the universe is material is a concept. It is our language that blinds us from the truth by forcing to see the world as "seperate things" Who you are and what you are is one being or one suchness. That is what "God" is and that is what "you" are. Once you realize this you will realize that even saying that is saying too much. That is why Zen masters will give you a funny look, laugh, smile, and wink if you ask such a question. He will then ask you; Who is it that is asking if God exists? ;)

You see that's where you are wrong because the moment you name it God, creator or whatever you want to call it then you either kill it or place it with in your own boundaries of understanding and this is what religions where doing for thousands of years mixing it with there own countries tradition thus creating Islam, Christianity Hinduism, etc. All of these tried to name it according to there own needs, at some point where they got it right somewhere wrong and somewhere they made it a mess. What is God then ? is it an entity , a definition or a concept ? if it is then a question arises who created God if you can determine him. The answer is that something precedes all of these and only few known individuals managed to descried it correctly one of them is Lao Tsu he is the one who understand it better than anybody else he named it TAO (way and or path) which is the entire Universe, but it's also the flow of the Universe and beyond the universe. Another individual was Gautama Siddhartha the known Buddha which he knew that he couldn't named it or defined it so he used the term Tathagata (that or thus gone). After there deaths many people misused there teachings again creating a religion that suit there needs. Lao Tsu left a documentary called Tao De Ching and he describes as best as possible the reality of this world using human language although it is thought that other Taoist masters put some text also on to it making the version we read today. Gautama the Buddha never allowed anything to been written down from his teachings all that was written was after his death by his disciples that where closer to him. Another great being who is worth mentioning is Bodhidharma the founding of Chan Buddhism and the Shaolin Temple...

2815Juan Read the Lotus Sutra. There you will find many confirmation. Buddha speak there from himself as the creator of everything and that extinguishment isnt the real goal.

Gieszkanne And that the Buddha is an eternal entity, who achieved nirvana eons ago, but willingly chose to remain in the cycle of rebirth (samsara) to help teach beings the Dharma time and again...

Buddha Tara is also known as the mother of all Buddhas even though she was born from Buddha Avalokiteshvara's tear. Om tare Tuttare Ture Soha

Obviously yes, or you would not be here.

@@fromthepeanutgallery1084 you have a phone,someone created it somewhere,tell me their name, tell me how your phone's obejective right now matters on who created it,creator is not important what we do with our creation is important. How do you know that i would not be here with beleaving in something?????

@@user-dd9lx2cr5h The creation of the telephone and dedicated line (land or cell) is important, because you are using it to reply, for one. Without it, communication would not be possible (no internet). Without the Creator it would never have come into existence, and by extension the "what" you do with it, would not exist either.

You did not get the objective here,i said when you use telephone do you think of its creator.no its objective is more than important in our currenrt word..talking about god,what if god's obejective was to creat and he did it, overwhelming proof that people with him or without doesnot matter to be happy and lead a good life,there are millions of people waste everyday to look for god but never look at their inner self and that is the problem and it does not matter if god exist or not...whoever created humans,humans are enough intelligent to carry out things..and god is uselesss in that manner,its has no action no proof,no nothing..so therefore being uselesss.

@@user-dd9lx2cr5h I think about who created and made things all the time. I marvel at life, art, music, film, consciousness, God, Marconi, Bell, Watt, Ray. When I look at a great piece of art, I always consider who is behind it. Be it my life, consciousness or even a telephone! One cannot use or do anything without thinking about it consciously or not. At least I think about it, others may not. There are always dichotomies and choices in any event, action or thought. I attempt to choose what I rationalize, as being the best choice in my world, success or failure in my choices is another issue.

When you think of the dharma you will hear the song, but your dog won't.

Dependent​ Origination​