Doen Sensei discusses the common misunderstanding of compassion by Zen practitioners. Sensei also explains the concept of non-attachment.
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I remember thid talk being clear and helpful when you gave it in class. It is the same, the second time around – clear and helpful – thank you.
Now comes the hard part, shifting emotion to understanding so that I can experience true compassion.
Dear Sensei,
These videos are extremely powerful. I feel that I had a mini-breakthrough or “glimpse” just now. I’m not joking when I say that I learned more about life in 15 minutes from you than I did at 12 years of University. I feel very grateful for these. Thank you for posting them.
I noticed whenever I am more realistic, everything is less dramatic, and those who are addicted to drama (including myself at times) rather slip away in the shadows and life becomes real such as wind blowing on my face, raindrops soaking through my jacket or soft leaves surfing beneath my sneakers. With such profound peace, quiet and solitude, the essence of all begins to emerge. Sometimes, I am attached to the solitude though and near hermitism.
I’ve spent an entire day stuck in the sludge of my thoughts (subconsciously while I was working like a machine) where all I keep noticing is how disappointed I am. I am disappointed in myself and probably 80% of people I know this very day and disappointed in general at the nature of reality or the way things are. For example, such as the fact that life is a long journey of accumulating so much from hard work and energy, especially knowledge, only to realize that I will “lose everything I like and love” as you put it.
Somehow when you were illustrating all of this, I felt in the core of my being, how after what you just taught me will perhaps be able to transform my relationships with people when I actually sit with them, face to face, and perhaps feel no disappointment but total acceptance.
I don’t exactly expect that to happen until I let go of the fact that I have never been perfect and I’m fine with the embarrassing mistakes that I’ve made.
Thank you for helping me investigate further.
May happiness be yours,
Peedee