Sixth Refuge Talk- The way of not stealing

3/10/2012

Sixth Refuge Talk- The way of not stealing

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Jenny Wunderly

3/12/2012 04:54:00 am

Nice talk David. Thanks for doing this.

Here are Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's words on the matter: "To realize our true nature includes all the precepts, not only not to kill or not to steal. Not to steal is—there is nothing to steal [laughs], because you have it.
When our mind become demanding….when we become longing for something, we will violate our precepts not to kill, not to be immoral, not to steal, or not to tell lie and so on. Those are based on our greedy mind. When our mind is self-satisfied we keep our precepts. When we ourselves is always self-satisfied, we have our original mind and we can practice good and we are always true to ourselves. So the most difficult thing is to keep our beginner’s mind in our practice. ... In this point, our practice should be constant. We should practice our way with beginner’s mind always. There is no need to have deep understanding about Zen. Even though you read Zen literature you have to keep this beginner’s mind. You have to read it with fresh mind. We shouldn’t say, “I know what is Zen” or “I have attained enlightenment...."
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Mark

3/31/2012 11:57:46 am

David, thank you for these.
As I work my way through refuge, the precepts, Zen, koans, etc. I notice that there is indeed a connection, a weave so to speak. Each is indeed contained in the other. Each ordinary life, moment and experience are within and without each other. I keep coming back to what is the core, for me, the two koans....'Mu' and 'not knowing'. They seem to be the mortar.... which builds nothing. Do I really need to take more from the moment than what is present?

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