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This is great!

From spin doctor to roshi😊

Well said. Thank you.

Thank you for your talk, really helpful.

Nice!! "Experience is the thing of supreme value in life. Provided one is prepared to put the past to good account." Henry Ford (paraphrased) Thanks.❤

Down here to visit my 94 uncle. He made it to 94 and still going by doing as you say, meeting each day to live. I often wonder if I greet each day or fight against it. Anyway may you keep bringing us your videos. Thank you

This was a powerful talk for me. Thank you.

Hah! I'm way too lazy to be my own Zen Master. You're my Zen Master. But I'm too lazy to actually watch your videos.

Again very interesting

Wow. Thank you.

Both my parents are 80+, and have major health problems. I am currently one step away from being homeless. And am currently working for a job that does homeless outreach. Go figure. Very powerful video jack. Sometimes i feel like im so preoccupied by the present moment I don't prepare for the future well enough. Does that ever happen to you?

Beautiful video, Jack

I’m not saying you’re just acting. It seems you are sincere. But did you ever take acting lessons. Do you talk like you do in normal life or just when teaching.i am 76 years old been meditating for about 35 years. It does get better with age thanks for your Talks. I know a little about Mr sasaki teaching from shinzen young.The guy who taught me how to meditate.

Die into the present moment? The present moment would be a infinitely short unit of time. Too short to even be aware of...like trying to catch a single frame of a motion picture. One thing that happens in meditation is a kind of mental age regression. You start re-living your early childhood before all the accumulated baggage of time. Shiny and new...almost as if the rest of your life never happened. Remember the lyrics from 'Like A Virgin'? I was beat, incomplete I've been had, I was sad and blue But you made me feel Yeah, you made me feel Shiny and new

I like what you are saying. I’ve been feeling some of that growing old angst lately. Maybe it’s just me but there also seems to be a life cycle to civilizations too. So I think everyone feels a little bit of this civilizational death in the west. People are not having many children and the powers that be are importing people into the western countries as fast as they can. So I feel sad that for example a place like Ireland doesn’t get to be for Irish people anymore and is quickly being replaced by people that have a completely different culture and way of living. This is happening everywhere in the west. It feels like the west is stuck with having to give up all their homelands so that the economic machine can keep consolidating and “globalizing” the western world. All I can say is that I am drawn to the dharma out of my own sadness, anger, and revulsion. It’s painful and there is no way for me to do anything about it. Sometimes I feel the angst of all European peoples everywhere and feel completely impotent to do anything about it. I know at any moment 20 thousand Haitians or whoever could be dropped off on my doorstep like they did in Ohio where I grew up. If you protest against this at all the propaganda machine labels you as racist and not compassionate. I can feel overwhelmed at times with it all and I know so many people feel this way. So out of desperation I turn to dharma and make some space to breathe and just look and be present with my awareness. It also helps going to the gym and doing some boxing training. It makes me feel lighter to work out hard. ‘’The awakened state is the ordinary of the ordinary.” CTR

I used to want to climb every mountain on the planet. Made the summit of a few of them only to realize years later that all I'd done was spend a small fortune to go live in the cold for weeks at a time and put my life at risk just to stand on top of an icy piece of Earth. Wake up, exit sleeping bag, layer up, use restroom, brush teeth, collect snow, melt snow, pour into freeze dried breakfast, eat breakfast, wash container, tear down tent, gear up, walk, take a break, snack, look out at white empty landscape, continue walking, avoid crevasse, pick camp site, probe for crevasses, stomp out tent platform, set up tent, saw snow blocks, build snow wall, collect snow, melt snow, pour into freeze dried dinner, eat dinner, wash container, brush teeth, remove layers, enter sleeping bag, fall asleep, repeat. I did this for years. Didn't hit me until recently that this phase of my life was extremely important. I was blind to the ordinary. And holy shit, wouldn't ya know, I'm doing the exact same thing at home as I was doing in the mountains. Only I'm surrounded by people and buildings.

When young, everyone thought the brainwashing by parents and society is real. The good and bad, the success and failure, the FOMO, the bucket list....until some realise it's all a fairytale humans created.

I totally get the requirement of having easy access to a bathroom. At 60 years old, I definitely can't hold it for too long. As far as dying, I'm ok with it although I would rather not go through pain if I don't have to. I lived an ok life. Not the best life, but not the worst life either. Got to meet interesting people such as Philip Kapleau and Tim McCarthy.

Thank you, sir.

Nice one. Thanks!

Yeh man you definitely look like you made it 😅

"die to the present moment" "been to the puppet show and seen the strings"

Is nirvana a MacGuffin?

Very timely, personally. Thank you. But I was actually expecting old super 8 footage of your gramps at the end. I pictured him to look like Jed Clampett or something.

Indeed👽. Thanks! Always dig your videos🙏. Yeah, definitely more familiar with the dying process than the living process at this stage in my game. This story is remarkable. Here's to the power of "admirable friendship"🙏. Notions like "take no thought," in Western religions, or dropping into jhanas via practice require - surrender.

Jack, what do you rhink about these kinda AI videos? ua-cam.com/video/DPcoE_wQi1c/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared

Just what I needed to hear, listening again in mid-January in the season of slop. Thank you!

When I met Philip Kapleau, I asked him "How close am I to enlightenment?" He put his finger to his lips in silent answer. In other words, he gave me the finger.

Reminds me of a koan where the master says, "Take care for at any time you might fall into hell"

If I'm suffering then I'm doing it wrong.... Is it then wrong for me to feel the pain of empathy for others? Or the pain of growth through increased awareness, as I felt when I ate my first vegan meal this week that brought me closer to ending my part in the suffering of animals? Or the pain that comes from sitting longer in zazen and having deeper insight?

Really appreciate you sharing the humanity of your teacher; so very important, I think! This seems to be so often lost when hearing stories of so called zen masters! What seems to be often their greatest teachings, we miss in search of some so called “special” esoteric BS. You were blessed to have spent such intimate time with Rōshi. In gassho.

Thanks Jack. No nuggets from me. I realize that nothing is ever like you think it will be. Not saying don't make plans, just saying prepare to be adjustable.

You feelin' old, folks? Leave your old person rants & wisdom-nuggets here!

Funny, I just read the last chapter in Zen Confidential, about your teacher’s bowel issues. (I’m late to that party.)

so good

About giving yourself in a handshake: Nicht müde werden, sondern dem Wunder leise wie einem Vogel die Hand hinhalten. by Hilde Domin Let us all practice giving a hand throughout the new year!

5:49 I got money on the "handshake sutra"

It is ridiculous how often you accidentally speak to my circumstances. Thank you, as always, for sharing.

Nice one :)

A kid goes to his mom and says, "I heard a new word at school today but I don't know what it means. Mom, what's fornication?" Flustered, the mom says, "Go ask your grandpa." The kid goes upstairs to his old Jewish grandpa who has a heavy accent and says, "What's fornication?" His grandpa takes two suits out of his closet and says, "This plain suit is for every day. This fancy one is fornication (for an occasion)."

🙏 I like your videos. But this one made me laugh and thankful. What a storyteller you are - fantastic. I‘m living in Northern Germany but UA-cam is letting me take time with you. Thank you for doing what you‘re doing. 🙏❤️🙏

I told you before, I like it when you make videos on the run. I love the sincerity of your spontaneity. I need to learn to meet people like that. No more habitual responses! I'm thinking of your teacher telling L. Cohen that he was a fake monk. If you are sincere enough, you can say anything without misunderstanding

Maybe treat yourself to a selfie stick

I love the title “Is this dork enlightened.” 😂

You learned the four stages of a zen sex scandal, that truth trumps happiness, that never-ending meetings eventually end, and statements written by committee suck. What more do you need to know?

"practice self" .. interesting 😊

filling silence with kinda bulshit. yes. i know that quite well❤

thx for ur honest words❤