Zen Master Gu Ja - Just eat, sleep and shit 

I see; so the homeless person who recently yelled "eat shit and die!" at me recently was just giving me some friendly Zen advice after all.

That laughter made me relaxed. Why do we miss this simplicity.

My Dad, a Gulag survivor, on his good days would say "Eat, sleep, shit and be happy. On other days he was the most irate, angry, violent, unhappy person to be around.

This was a good one. It feels better when Zen leaders have a sense of humor, it comes off as very confident.

Who is your favourite zen Master? You, you, you. Get it? Cause everybody is a Zen Master. That's the secret. But it's not a secret, it's a matter of realising it.

Zen Master Gu Ja 🙏🙏🙏 Once a Zen master asked SK Sum, _"How do you practice Zen?"_ SK Sum replied, _"To eat when hungry, to rest when tired, to shit when necessary."_ Zen master retorted, _"Then you are not different from others!"_ SK Sum replied, _"Not sir, when others eat, they think & worry of many things, when they rest, they dream & have many nightmares, then they forget to shit to suffer constipation!"_ 😊🙏🙇‍♂️🌷

On that basis, my Great Dane is a high Zen master 😂

wavy gravy asked a zen master what happens after we die... the master said he didn't know... but, protested wavy, you are a zen master!.. yeah, the master answered, but I'm not a fucking dead one... Miraculous power and marvelous activity Drawing water and chopping wood. (Pangyun, a lay Zen practitioner, eight century C.E.)

Poet Ryokan said: "the flower invites the butterfly with no mind, the butterfly comes, the flower opens; the flower opens, the butterfly comes". This no mind is also present in our physical necessities of eating, sleeping and shitting.

Be and breathe friend. Neither future nor past can reach you in the now. It is in the now you have that high awareness of being. Keep creating!

When I get unhappy, depressed I return to this video. It is so simple and profound.

Zen is so joyful, I love it.

Wow this is the most powerful lesson I've listened, the most clear one, and the most essential. Thank you so much

Amazing woman. Student asked her something and she answered it as a koan instantly. That shows how advanced she is.

Any zen talk including 'Ficken, fressen, fernseh'n' geht's my thumbs up, no hesitation.❤😅

Finally, someone teaches Zen

Beautiful woman. A wonderfully intense few minutes. To keep coming back to.

It makes me happy too, as i feel these few words together as a poem unburdens the mass of the upturned pyramid of the rely-gones, the fear of death instilled along with all its pressures upon our shoulders. Perhaps the person missing that bit of rib and feeling the most pain will one day hear this simple poem. ThankYou☘️

"...What is that, that is doing this? find this point (slap). No life. No death." Brilliant. And hilarious too.

She's such a gem. Such an enlightened spirit.

To shit well is most important. I learned this at a very young age. All other things fall into positions of lesser degree. One other thing of high importance is to check weather before sailing. Best to not concern one's self with anything else.

Dear, Master: Please If one day you come Looking for me, Ask for me At the fishmonger's, In the tavern, Or in the brothel. Thanks ❤️

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.” Zen Master Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Absence of Awareness is Death. There is no other Death.

We do not come in to life,we are life, and life is God.We as sentient beings were created by the Devine and have always been, eternal.

Is this the next step in the evolution of Live Love Laugh?

Thank you for your inspiration, on Eat, Sleep, Shit and then we can say: "Aloha Paradise", and just be thankfulness for now we are in Paradise. Amen. Much Blessings!!!

I love the sentiment that, if I ever think I really need more than “eat, sleep, and, shit”, that’s a problem. And I suppose if I ask my self what the nature of that problem is, when I’m in that situation, it will probably lead me to a great discovery. Thx for the video 🙏🫶✌️😎

What an incredibly cool teacher!!!!

Don't forget Sleep.

Superb.

Beautiful. There is always the knower behind all thoughts/actions!!!

Oh gosch das ist wunderschön... einmalig. Namaste.

We live to Love also . To learn.

A true Zen Master! Well said, well done!

“˹He is the One˺ Who created death and life in order to test which of you is best in deeds. And He is the Almighty, All-Forgiving.” Al-Mulk / 2

Nirvana, the putting out of the flame of desire. 🌬️💨🕯️

We're almost like plants really you know..... Just kind of water them and stuff.... Brilliant!

"Chop Wood Carry Water" " ESSD" Sip water slowly...💫 Great Teaching, x

Ahh you have taught me the way master

I blow into my lungs I blow into the world.

Excellent teaching

The way she delivered that point at the end 😮❤

Only missed one thing eat, sleep, shit, then please wipe ass! I appreciate that she added “fucking”. Many times there is a big aversion against masters or priest to have sex. Sex is more than we have defined it as. Just as all other things are. To have intercourse may not be what everybody would want but even sex can be meditation. “I” liked her answer to the question “who is your favorite Zen Master.” Even though one could also say there is no Zen Master.🈚️🐉❤️

I was very inspired first thing in the morning Grest work!

It is an inspiring poem. I've been forgetting to shit.

JAI BABAJI 🌳🌺🌷🌸🌻🌼💐🎄🌹❤️🦚🪷🙏JAI MAA 🌻🌸🌼🌳🌺💐🌷🎄🌹❤️🦚🪷🙏

Alan Watts approves this message.

Just be in vegetative state or like an animal if you only follow physiological needs and biological drives.

Someone finally came up with the meaning of life. Bravo!

Brilliant. I love it.

It is what i want in life .To be able to eat and shit in peace.That is a life

Wonderful, take me back to my junior playground!!

Zen priests are the only religious people I've seem who actually seem lively and happy.

Hapchang master. So helpful

Needed this. Thank you.

I have just been enlightened!! Wow. Better get off the seat of leisure now. 🙏🏼🌸

I remember reading one Zen Master saying When Hungry I eat

Finally someone that speak upon the essential 🙂🙄🙌

Listen to this lady, she's being honest, a long-forgotten concept in today's world apparently.......

When you meet someone in Zen who is clearly awakened....then you can trust your Zen instructor. I've met thousands of Zen practitioners/instructors and non are awakend(nor am I). I've gotten rid of Zen masters and now follow neuroscience. It's far more effective unless you find a neuroscientist who teaches Zen Best wishes to you🙏

"Maybe you could add more things?" How about... 10,000 things? lol!

Aah to be in her presence...... This is Love ❤

Thank you! 🙏🏼

No life, no death just perfection!❤

This is a wonderful teaching, from a wonderful teacher.

She forgot to say: laugh and love...but she is exercising it anyway

Thats what I have been doing for 40 years. A Hokikomori practicing Non Doing Zen.

🤩🙏🥰 Embrace Detach Dance ✨☀️🌼☀️✨

in practice he is saying that the human being should regress to the state of an involuted animal... it is not at all because the human being is a grandiose being in all his mental complexity and it is not at all true that desire causes suffering, suffering arises from the lack of knowledge rooted in the ego of the human being... therefore it is necessary to know how to stop and detach oneself from one's own sense of ego or at least manage it in the best possible way... once the human being is deprived of desire it becomes a bad thing inexpressive... the true purpose of life is not to annihilate oneself in it but to become conscientiously eternal... now I understand why Buddhism born in India is present throughout Asia, even in India itself 😅

I feel like I've wasted my time; and people would say I am just Zen enough.

i would have loved it if we just came here to eat, sleep, and shit but that is not possible without working like dog

I think this is a video that will have different meanings the more I return to it. Right now, I’m not sure I fully understand, and that’s my truth.

If you have studied the cultures and religions of the world you'll find out inevitably that they're all talking about the same thing. This energetic love that moves the stars, galaxies, the thing that makes you digests your food, the thing that makes you blink and hear and eat and sleep and shit and so on, this great happening is God. Or Allah, or Brahma, or the Dao/Tao, whatever name you have from your background, they're all talking about the same thing. If you're fortunate, and wake up one day and discover that you are this great energy, HOORAY. You've finally woken up to the fact that you are a Zen Master, or a son of God. That you are Allah, or that you are the Dao, it doesn't matter what name you try to put on it, you can't be named. 😏 Now if you really understand that you are that, you ought to discover that everybody else is too. Jesus Christ, early in his life had this amazing consciousness experience. He tried to wake people up to the fact that they are too. Of course, people in those times were absolutely shocked and thought he was some sort of unnatural man, who performs miracles, is basically immortal and so on. Of course he is. Of course you are. All of us will die one day and leave not even a spec of dust behind, we can digest food, do millions of functions around our body every single millisecond without thinking about it, isn't this all a miracle? Look around you, were in space. Space is infinite, therefore any position from which you look at space could be said to be the center. You are the central point of the entire universe. And if you discover that you are the universe, you've already abolished all the problems that would arise if you felt like you were a stranger and afraid in a world it never made. What's even greater is that you don't need to know any of this, just like you don't need to know how to breathe to be able to do it. You don't need someone to teach you you're a master of life, because you are anyhow. But if you want a master, sure. But it's always more fun to find something out for yourself. 😂🤫

It reminds me of the joke by george carlin about why he hates self-help. He said, "What's so hard about life? You wake up, you eat. You sh*t you, go to work, come home, smoke a joint, and go to bed. What's so hard about that?

Guja, you forgot something. Ikyu also liked to go to the brothel or have fun with his beautiful Shin. But if Zen is no longer there, it would be very pathetic. What do you think of compassion and active, real love?

Better than "Eat Pray Love".

Lesson for people tha lives in year 1000

I don't know if I got those three in the right order. Ah well *€&# it lol

I notice that three things that you can postpone but you must do in the end - eating, sleeping and shitting - are preparing you for the last one!

Thanks.

"Everyone shall find bliss in his own fashion" - "Jeder soll nach seiner Façon selig werden" - as Frederick II, King of Prussia, said.

Gu Ja FTW!!!

beautiful, the I AM

Homage to the Tathāgata.

yeah, dont cloth, dont cook , dont clean yout closet, dont wash your cloths, .. its so easy to be zen.

So funny, it's hysterical to think that all of life and the many actions we take that we think have meaning all boils down to eating, sleeping, and shitting. At least according to some Zen Masters. I laughed out loud because of the irony how we think everything little thing we do like amassing a fortune or having a big family has so much meaning, but in the end it really means nothing at all. But then on the other hand even eating, sleeping, and taking a huge dump can be done with mindfulness. For someone following a mindfulness path mindfulness is the essential state of being. No matter what you do - eating, sleeping, pooping included! It's kind of the Yang to the Yin. No mind / mindfulness! Which do you prefer?

이런 표현하면 실례될지 모르겠지만,너무 귀여우십니다.

I like to think Prajnatara had this kind of attitude.

I'm healed 😅

It's the same old question: 6:16 "Who am I?"

The ego of all these people who comment saying "wonderful" is just deluding itself into escaping from itself and being able to prove something, that is, having understood life better than others... Do something else, besides eating, sleeping and shitting , otherwise it's not worth being born. The girl here quotes a little poet, I quote Dante Alighieri: "We were not made to live like brutes"... I love and appreciate the practice of meditation etc., but the way it is presented here is misleading.

May I ask what the sound is at the beginning of this video? I love the clicking noise, I am not a zen person, but I am sure, that that sound is made for ceremony/meditation. Thanx!

Kind of makes sense.

Wow!❤❤❤🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️

Eat, sleep, shit repeat. I've got it! I'm enlightened!

What is life force? How does it work?

From now until my death I will shit thinking on you, oh master!

Simple

That's all we do anyway. Ha. Just sit in a chair un-clothed in front of a mirror with yourself. But up close . Go over your body and listen. Ha. Stand for one hour with your nose inch's away from the wall just observe yourself from inside out. Don't leave to go to the bathroom or get a drink or answer the phone. Stay one hour. Ha. You'll fix yourself up fast if you don't want to keep standing in front of a wall for hours at a time.