Brad Warner author of Hardcore Zen on Gudo Nishijima

[FiendishDrWu]

Nishijima's answers brings a great big smile to my face. Nishijima's response to the question "what is life and death?" is fantastic. How much clearer could it be?! Thanks for this.

[AnonymousPolitics5]

@stangerthananything truth is sadly not relative. Reality is reality the way we perceive may be different from others however it must be said our perceptions if the universe is not where the truth comes from. It comes from itself, truth is truth. Perception muddies the water reflecting it, and it is because of this the truth o's so simple to grasp yet so difficult to understand.

[dustofsoul]

he will be in frankfurt in august for a weekend-sesshin. the sesshin will be held at the pathue-pagode, and he will teach about dogen´s shobogenzo. his teacher gudo nishijima is a contemporary dogen expert.

[tooleydeviljuice]

i love hearing truth so plain and simple that it makes you go "oh yeah" and you feel like you've known it all along.

[creationofself]

I think the old man did fine with awnsering the qustions. No one could have done any better or worse. Words are words. Explinations are explinations. The good awnsers we realize our self. Even they are simply just explinations with out diligent aplicatioin.

[HotBadgerDeluxe]

This shows the most important thing about Zen - the simplicity is profound.

[ciffycoffee]

Thanks Brad.

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Nothing brilliant here at all. Very dry and plain. Just a little better than before. He's a fellow in the grass. Nothing to see here so no rubber necking, keep moving along in stillness.

[Pherdacil]

Most brilliant stuff I have heard for a long time.

[herzensbildung]

Completely out of tune with the Buddha's teaching and not at all of help to people. Really not to be emulated, unless you want to increase your ignorance and suffering.

[Illneverforgetyou777]

Are you? Thanks for warning us! We won't emulate you!

[Illneverforgetyou777]

What's wrong with it? Would you like to tell us, MASTER!

[linuxguy999]

Gee, tell us what's wrong with it then!

[linuxguy999]

Oh wait your account is closed!

[strangerthananything]

I'm pretty sure that truth is relative. No teacher had to tell me that. Brad Warner is helping people in his way. I appreciate his work and it makes me sad to see people so quick to dismiss it because of their preconceived ideas of how things should be. Many paths there are.

[strangerthananything]

I mean descriptions of truth and that was intended to be in reply to

herzensbildung...

[strangerthananything]

I'm pretty sure that descriptions of truth are relative. No teacher had to tell me that. Brad Warner is helping people in his way. I appreciate his work and it makes me sad to see people so quick to dismiss it because of their preconceived ideas of how things should be. Many paths there are.

[frege666]

Sorry for the extra "us to grasp."

[frege666]

Question: "What is our true original nature?"

Nishijima: "Generally speaking, it is impossible for us to know our true original nature, because it is the simple fact of the present moment. . . so it is impossible for us to grasp us to grasp the present moment."

Fun time with words--language on holiday. I'd bet neither the person who asked that question nor Nishijima knew what the hell they were talking about.

[Sparven77]

Great stuff you provide!!!

Im a Buddhist Punk in Uppsala, Sweden.