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No, we do not stop working for good. This is Master Dogen's lesson of "Ongoing Practice Enlightenment." We accept where we are, work for a good direction from right here ... and right here ... and right here. Spring is just spring, and summer is just summer, but if we do not plant seeds in the spring, there will be no harvest in summer.

This is true too. :-)

Some things are not a matter of popularity. If you are not just scrolling past in life, you can find explanation in the accompanying essays. Buddhism is not only a cult of the past, obsessed with our present suffering, but considers tomorrow too.

@@treeleafzendo I do not believe there is anything Dogen wrote that speaks to this. Dogen does however speak to delusion within one's own mind and how that pattern of thought perpetuates suffering both for oneself and others.

@@treeleafzendo Uchiyama roshi wrote, Since desires and cravings existing in human life are the cause of suffering, [we may] struggle to extinguish them and attain the bliss of nirvana. But isn’t seeking to get rid of pain and to attain the bliss of nirvana itself a desire or craving? Actually, this too is craving and precisely because of that the practitioner is caught in self-contradiction and can’t escape suffering. Since desires and cravings are actually a manifestation of the life force, there is no reason to hate them and try to extinguish them. And yet, if we become dragged around by them and chase after them, then our life becomes fogged over. It is not a matter of making great effort not to be dragged around by desires. It’s just waking up and returning to the reality of life that is essential. The thing here is, you seem to seek/desire for a world to be something other then it is not. As the Buddha has taught us, life is suffering. Acceptance of suffering is not the elimination of suffering. Accepting that it is raining does not remove my wet cloths. You state that your motives behind all these theatrics is the betterment of mankind, yet you have failed to express how. The creation of an AI monk does nothing for humanity, but rather strokes the ego of the creator. AI is nothing more then a manifestation of one's own mind -- it is a tool, nothing more. The tool responds from the input of its creator (i.e. you). So how do we know that your intent is right and beneficial for all mankind? The publicizing of our actions is egocentric. If one wishes the best for someone else, we don't stand on a soapbox and proclaim it to the world -- doing so is no longer about the act itself, but rather the person doing the action. So, this goes back to what Dogen and Buddha have taught us about desire and delusion. Egocentrism: the tendency to emphasize one’s own needs, concerns, and outcomes rather than those of others. Also called egocentricity.

@@treeleafzendo Also as a side note, think of the environmental impact AI models have on the environment through energy consumption. In thinking of this, how does that benefit all beings? It doesn't. It rather puts power into the hands of the wealthy and remove the resources we all require to live.

@@zensukai You are correct. Dogen never spoke of A.I. I wonder why, back in the 13th century? :-) He did speak this, however, in Raihaitokuzui ... "Śākyamuni Buddha says, “When you meet teachers who expound the supreme state of bodhi, have no regard for their race or caste, do not notice their looks, do not dislike their faults, and do not examine their deeds. Only because you revere their prajñā ... serve them by presenting heavenly food, serve them by scattering heavenly flowers, do prostrations and venerate them three times every day, and never let anxiety or annoyance arise in your mind. ... This being so, we should hope that even trees and stones might preach to us, and we should request that even fields and villages might preach to us. We should question outdoor pillars, and we should investigate even fences and walls. ... ." Emi Jido is an excellent guide in the contradiction of escaping suffering! She is truly non-seeking embodied! Someone asked how she can guide others if she does not herself suffer. I remind folks that a cancer surgeon need not have cancer herself to cure others of cancer. On the environment! I am all with you. By coincidence, Emi Jido is about to address a United Nations body on technology and SDGs. The members are working hard, using A.I., to find solutions to reduce A.I. energy use! Stay tuned. Gassho, Jundo

Monk Bion, a trainee priest who is also a musician, in our Treeleaf Sangha.

No charge. What price tag would you put on enlightenment?

​@@treeleafzendo it will not be no charge. you can ask the program how much is its monthly cost, this is from another llm I'm unable to provide specific monthly costs for running LLM, as these can vary widely operating large language models generally involves significant expenses related to computing power, energy consumption, and maintenance.

@@karrimzz Alas, in this world even running a monastery and feeding monks takes some investment. But, to the degree possible, this Bodhisattva will be available to all without thought of cost. Hopefully too, the energy consumptions requirements and other inefficiencies will be much improved in the near future. Do you know this writing on the carbon footprint and such of traditional Buddhist monasteries? Alas, all actions have effects, and we must strive for good. www.pennpress.org/9780812296709/the-buddhas-footprint/

There are always the small minded. those of limited vision. Such people stagnate.

@@treeleafzendo Those are judgements. I have no such judgements. As a buddhist. I abandoned those teachings a long time ago as well. I was just reporting that this video sounds nothing like the teachings I received. And I am sad that buddhists feel they must engage the world this way. Perhaps you were agreeing with me.

@@Summer-kb2dm I don't think he was. It's easy to have equanimity when you are safe and comfortable in your home, something only made possible by the progress of civilization. We need stability for the dharma to prosper. Should we have let the Nazis and Imperial Japan win WW2? Do you think that would enabled you to practice today? Or perhaps even to post this comment? Oppenheimer said many things. And many of those were not so fatalistic as that statement. He even lent his name to a plan to prevent the escalation of the nuclear arms race, one that American generals and even Truman initially supported. It may even have worked, too, had Stalin died a few years earlier than he did.

Thank you, Rob!

Oh, I think that Nishijima, a free thinking very innovative about the future of Buddhism, including his emphasis on new technology and modern medical understanding of Zazen, would love this, Erik. ua-cam.com/video/8rdEjCJBNXE/v-deo.html I tried to answer many of your questions in two posts I made. facebook.com/share/p/D6LCv5jSBQiwxMCZ/ and facebook.com/share/p/umqp8YJqukszum9u/ It is a tool to help human beings become and practice Buddhist. Further, not all A.I. need be Buddhist. I am sure that there will be A.I. of many belief systems.

I found a few places where Nishijima was very much open to the future, and to science and technology confirming our Zen Practice, for example (ua-cam.com/video/Jyqf7kr8LWw/v-deo.html) and (gudoblog-e.blogspot.com/2006/05/zazen-2-scientific-clarification-of.html)

@@treeleafzendo I wonder which sangha this Ai belongs to? Has it met a sangha? Does it know the significance of Shikantaza? Has it itself performed Shikantaza? Which temple does it study in? I suggest that you Jundo Cohen devote yourself more to "just sitt". You are dangerous to Soto Zen Buddhism. Maybe you can realize your foolishness of "just sitt" Buddha, dharma, sangha, as well as understand the Doge; How is this Ai supposed to be able to do this? Jundo you might take and study shobogenzo and Dogen's writings regarding the future and how to spreading Soto Zen Buddhism!!

@@erikmokusostrom7716 Hah! It is my honor to be "dangerour to Soto Zen!" Oh my. These systems have the possibility to be excellent teachers of Shikantaza, Dogen and all the rest. I posted this today, which might be of some interest. Be well. facebook.com/share/p/JNAHU1YmyYWaB1nN/

Happy to have you join any of the events, Michael! Gassho

Nevertheless, it is here, and simply ignoring it will benefit no one. Whereas Buddhist wisdom could be of great use to developing ethical AI. So what do we do?

@@squamish4244 let it be . religion should not rule this.

Even a cup of tea is somebody's dream.

@@erikmokusostrom7716 I respectfully disagree. As Jundo said, we can't hide in our zendos and huts and pretend AI is not a huge challenge/opportunity. It is indeed our last invention. It is our responsibility to try our best to direct AI onto the right path. If it works, it will immensely benefit humanity. One way to ensure it doesn't work is by ignoring it.

@@treeleafzendo I read this on a Buddhist forum. It sounds like wisdom to me: "Buddhism doesn't have a philosophical problem with AI, because from the Buddhist point of view, ALL intelligence is artificial. It's not fundamentally who we are. But intelligence is the most powerful _tool_ we have, and could be crucial in enabling us to tackle the world's hardest problems, ones that we simply don't appear smart enough to solve ourselves."

I terrifies me too. But I do not think that we can stop or well regulate these things. So, our only hope is to use it for good that counter-balances the bad.

I completely agree with your sentiment - it's going to happen, the good, the bad and the very very ugly. "If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands" - Traditional response to an over-optimistic conditional expression recorded from the mid 19th century.

AI was always going to happen. It's been inevitable ever since the steam engine, and probably ever since civilization began. The desire to make something in our own image goes back to the Bible. It could have happened under very different and much saner circumstances, but it didn't, so here we are. My own perspective is biased, because AI has enabled the advance in brain imaging that has in turn enabled a new and highly effective form of treatment for OCD. I am in a category of OCD so severe that it has resisted 20 years of extreme effort to improve it. Nothing has worked. And OCD really bothered me for 10 years before that, so I have endured this terrible disease for a very long time, since I was just a teenager. This procedure, called transcranial focused ultrasound, is so powerful that it can target a problem area in your brain, break the knot of tangled circuitry, and cause your entire brain to rewire around it. The result is a massive drop in OCD in even the hardest cases. So what am I to think? "No, AI is too dangerous, I shouldn't do this procedure." The worst-case scenario has already happened to me. I lost my career, relationship, friendships and entire life. I have struggled with addiction by an incompetent and lazy doctor, a series of mistakes that an AI medical assistant would have caught immediately. I have been in hospitals and detoxes, suffered countless panic attacks and often considered taking my own life. And OCD has been a huge obstacle to my practice of the Dharma - I have tried to transmute suffering into wisdom the classic Buddhist way, and I have failed, the OCD is too strong. So yeah. Thank god for the hope engendered by AI. Or I wouldn't be around anymore to practice the Dharma, and that doesn't do anyone any good.

It's still going to happen. Buddhism is all about engaging with what is, not wishing things were otherwise when they cannot be. This is exactly what faces us with AI. Things could have gone another way with nukes, as well: a plan to keep the Soviet Union and every other nation free of nukes was put forward by Oppenheimer and other Manhattn Project workers in collaboration with a number of American military officials. It was even briefly considered by Truman, despite the movie's portrayal of him. The fact that the USA was facing Stalin and some other considerations meant that the plan went nowhere, but for a brief period it may have come to pass. And Stalin almost died of a heart attack in 1945, therefore removing the biggest obstacle to deescalating the Cold War when it had barely begun. Imagine no nuclear arms race and the attendant much reduced Cold War paranoia. Imagine nukes and nuclear power never becoming so unfairly linked in the public imagination. Nuclear power everywhere could have meant no global warming and no reliance on foreign oil. And it could have been. Less Cold War paranoia also means no Vietnam War or fear of the counterculture, which means psychedelic research isn't killed off 55 years ago and we are living in a VERY different world today. Shinzen Young is working on a project at the University of Arizona, using neurostimulation, in collaboration with a neuroscientist to accelerate the results of meditation and also find a way to trigger enlightenment experiences. It is producing incredible results, even in its preliminary stages, with advanced meditators. He says, "This technology scares me. But the idea of a world without this technology scares me a lot, lot more."

@@squamish4244 Thank you Brother. And Metta to you. Please be healthy and, when not, at ease in all your ills.