Zen Master Seung Sahn: "Wake up!" (part 1 of 6)

[tomdjhill]

05:00 That's it!!! Everyone is crazy because they don't know what/ who the 'I' is!

[Velasca]

Bodied Armour

[KaiTendo174]

"Then world peace is no problem." Think about it.

[thethirdq]

What a great video. I hope you like mine and the power of the Third Q!

[bndctus]

In part 5 he says he went into the mountain when he was 21 and here his student is saying he reached enlightenment when he was 22.

That was a short trip!

[mystictouch9]

Does anyone here like chicken? if so tell my cousin, he is a dog that you like the color of colors.....please someone tell me that they like happy face? happy face say love you too, love you too say love your love, hello there? hi, ok, fine, you understand now ?

[tobesograteful]

@BluePittbull666 Ask yourself who is the loser.

[asimplermind]

Thank you so much for sharing this video. His clarity of teaching just points directly to the truth of the matter. No BS!

[GregoryWonderwheel]

What place is this to speak of mind as simple or not simple, of the Way as correct or incorrect?

[KaiTendo174]

@GregoryWonderwheel look up Alan Watts... I think that's what you're looking for...

[GregoryWonderwheel]

@KaiTendo174 No, I'm making a joke based on a statement by Zen Master Huang Bo. Sorry you did not get the reference.

[KaiTendo174]

@GregoryWonderwheel Oh, sorry. <:D

[vajraloka1]

i did a retreat with him in the eighties, in rhoad island ,5 days , meditation, chanting , bowing (108 bows a day ! ouch).. they reall ate good though, more than i usually do !

[douglasmacjames]

who are you master ? who is YOU ? forget i don't know and the blue montain...

YOU are the product of zen culture. You is the product of your fat master ! you repeat his fat zen culture. You censured me because you are protecting his zen culture, your zen culture . Man, you are not diferent others guys. So why are you teaching ? to help people... ? because you want to prove to the others guys you know more than them, you are better than them...

dont know...is your weapon to DEpreciate others.

[douglasmacjames]

WAKE UP MASTER ! ZEN IS YOUR DREAM ! ahhahahah!!!

[10axyz]

@douglasmacjames YES!!!!!!!

[Hanul91]

It's a shame that almost everyone thinks Zen originated or came from Japan when in fact Zen is just a Japanese word for Chan in Chinese and Seon in Korean.

[m420james]

its also getting rid of that which thinks it needs to get rid of your stupidity, arrogance, delusion, etc etc

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

1. this video is only shit. Everybody in this video look like children near daddy...time to grow up !

2. Truth doesn't exist so this master has a complicate mind...

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

WHAT IS ZEN ?

IF YOU ASK THAT QUESTION YOU LET ZEN DEFINE YOU. YOU WHO MUST DEFINE ZEN !!!

AND THIS IS IT ! THIS IS ZEN ! ZEN IS WHEN YOU DEFINE ZEN, YOUR LIFE, EVERYTHING !!!!. THAT IS THE MEANING OF ZEN. THAT IS ZEN.

[spharx]

I think what they talk about here is the key to a strong confidence, a good life - with many healthy relationships - and not to mention inner peace.

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

who created me ? where are we from ? what I am ? UFO exist ? ......... are questions of weak mind ! they are questions wich survives thousand of years by weak people ! zen is about strong people, strong people don't need to know, asking ! strong people lives their lifes and no ask about life.

[barnabaspark]

I have to agree that some christian charity often seek recognition as myself often does, whle they souldn't since they believe all their possesion is gift from God. On the other hand, I as Korean- American can tell you that 90 to almost 100% of those people working for North Korean refugees are Christians and many of them taking risk of losing their own life in the process. They are the ones following Jesus' teaching: "As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

[barnabaspark]

"Help other people and make world peace' said he in conclusion part.

But, in all honesty, I never seen any Buddihist charity organization or someone as buddihist devoted to humanitarian causes. I am sure there are some. But, my point is almost all charity organizations and people devoted in helpig others are Christians. For Christ's love comples them. To know our self, in & out, the best way is to ask the creator. He knows the answer.

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

@barnabaspark there is no creator asshole !!!

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

@barnabaspark by the way...christ is dead 2000 hundred years ago...wake up !

[barnabaspark]

@LEVRAIVRAIZEN

Yes, He was resurrected and is indeed alive. God bless you.

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

@barnabaspark if you want to anderstand zen you have to accept jesus is really dead and god doesn't exist, so you see the reality wich is your simple life, not proyeccion of your mind, not spiritual masturbation. If you don't... forget true zen !

[barnabaspark]

@LEVRAIVRAIZEN May God bless you.

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

@barnabaspark why are you telling that ? it's time to let go of God like child let go of his parents to be an ADULT ! this is the challenge of human being :manage his life by himself.

[Diasporik]

@barnabaspark I may be wrong but I think that buddhist altruism is definitely exists but does not seek recognition or require advertisement, while christian charity often does.

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

we only have to shit on masters they take places in our brain !

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

everything you think or not is conditioning !

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THINKINGS OR NOT ! NOT THINKINGS IS SUMISION TO BOUDHA !

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

for this master the wake up is : NOT THINKING

but stronger Zen is : I DONT CARE !

[LEVRAIVRAIZEN]

true self and ass hole are legend too !

[MrOhjok]

zen is a return to true self before you became the asshole you are now..

[douglasmacjames]

why people are looking for a master ? because they are cow , they don't trust en themself.

[douglasmacjames]

zen is only shit, this master is only shit that's the truth !

[ffff734]

wake up means if you think you can wake up with a master you are sleeping !

[johnydubz]

you guys will love my channel

[28DragonFly]

Thanks a million for posting these clips.Master Seung Sahn is so funny and his teachings make so much sense.May he rest in Peace.

[matthewmercury1]

yeah, totally just like that...except the whole traversing great distances in a flying machine part.

[Jalexorid]

@matthewmercury1 Too smart to be Flowers underground Door to door Door salesman My greatest enemy My greatest lover My only friend Not real Carpet burns Understand?

[L45]

The narrator made a slight error. He mentioned that the Buddha BROUGHT Zen into India, then it spread through China and in Japan and Korea (1:05). That is incorrect, Traditional Buddhism differs from Zen. Zen is the result of Buddhist teaching with the effect of Taoism, therefore, Zen started in China, because of the Taoism influence, where it came to b called 'Chan', Monks from China brought Zen into Japan while travelling.

[EnvyAbomination]

@L45

Legend says that Bodhidharma brought it there! :D

[douglasmacjames]

@EnvyAbomination dont shit legend on your brain !

[EnvyAbomination]

@douglasmacjames

Legend is shit! Brain is shit, what difference?

[douglasmacjames]

@EnvyAbomination brain is not shit ! what you put inside your brain most of time is shit

[EnvyAbomination]

@douglasmacjames

I see, I see.

[Hanul91]

@L45

Actually, Zen started from India then to China. It wasn't the effect of Taoism, but early schools of Zen thinking was established first in China, the idea was transmitted from India. Later, it was transmitted to Korea, and then to Japan at last. People tend to forget Korean influences on Chan or Zen teachings, many of schools of Chan were led by Korean monks who traveled to Tang China. It was really a fusion of Chinese and Korean ideas that transformed Zen today. : )

[max47277]

hat man dem deutschen Übersetzer eigentlich ins Gehirn ...

[piotruccini]

Od razu widac ze amerykańscy mnisi, skoro popija pepsi. omg :(

[booksteve]

How simple ! Wake up , know yourself, help others. Make world peace.

[jonestimothy15]

Thank you for posting this - Seung Sahn = true Zen.

[mebiged1982]

That's right there's nothing so let go and have a rest

[miljip]

kayakjunk, you are just an idiot.

[kayakjunk]

The problem with this religion, if you want to call it that, is that it puts all the onus on the individual and then after years and years of painful debilitating meditation you find out there is nothing here and no place to go. In other words, you get NOTHING! Suddenly the light bulb goes on and you find yourself sitting in a room, naked, with no one else there. No wonder very very very few people are interested in this. These guys are selling air and some people are dumb enough to buy it.

[LFJ]

"you get NOTHING" is incorrect.

YOU.. GET.. nothing.

[rockBuilder076]

You're right, and yet that's the only way to transmit any nondual teaching. It's the same with advaita (neo or not). As soon as you speak of spirituality, you speak as if there were something to sell, that's the nature of words and dualistic mind, we can't avoid it. At the beginning there is a promise of something to find, then there is the discovery that there's nothing to find since there's no one who's searching.

[rockBuilder076]

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You can't go at someone and tell him right away that "he doesn't exist", nobody can accept that without inquiring deeper.

[booksteve]

Sorry to mention it if this whole discussion annoys you, but the point of buddhism isn't religion : it isn't a religion . You are right. There is nothing there. You get nothing. The point is that YOU are to take charge of YOUR OWN LIFE. Forget about gaining anything. There is nothing to gain but knowledge of yourself.

All that bowing and chanting is not necessary if you just pay close attention to YOUR OWN MIND.

[funkiwi44]

"years of painful debilitating meditation"?

I've never found meditation to be painful or debilitating; then again, a little pain can be useful in teaching tolerance and understanding, which is clearly something you lack.

[OaverevaO]

I have friends who came to meditation after sobering up from the hell of multiply additions to drugs and alcohol, after fifteen years, they still are going through the pain of those experiences.

[kayakjunk]

continued from above...

They come by and put a for sale sign up, not showing you the merchandise, and then proceed to sell you back your own house! That is enlightenment for you. The whole thing is so utterly preposterous I am surprised people are still duped by these guys. They guys are traveling around the world with bald heads and gray robes and they then say that we are the ones with problems?! Dont they have mirrors?

[barackwhosSane]

it seems more practical than methods like tm though.

[mytubecomment]

Zen is (often) about getting rid of your stupidity, arrogance, delusion, suffering, and judgments. For some people it's harder than others.

[ArdieM]

zen masters/students eating fast food... lol nice begining

[kangdanlin]

yeah...this is the first from a series of clips

[aaronfast]

it's like this story:

"At first they didn't know if he was real or a fake," says Mu Sang Sunim, an American monk who sometimes travels with the Zen Master. "He used to cook big pots of soup for his students. He would chop up onions, and then kick the onion skins under the table. They thought a great Zen Master would not kick onion skins under the table."

I always think of that! They "didn't think a zen master" would kick onion skins under the table! Why? We're all so silly!

[kangdanlin]

dont think...not before ..not after:)..at least this is what i get out of it

[kangdanlin]

thank you for this videos

[cwalwanis]

I am curious as to why practitioners of Seon use the Japanese "Zen" instead of Seon. For instance when I was in Providence the name of a center was even Providence Zen Center and I wondered why not Providence Seon Center since it is Korean. I realize that these are just two different noises uttered by us but I just wondered if this is maybe due to more people being familiar with the term Zen and even if so why people wouldn't use Seon or want to have it be a commonly known term.

[iwanxxx]

When Seung Sahn came to USA "zen" was already a word in English language. I guess he never bothered about the name. Same thing with the students of Master Kusan.

[fjanton83]

Wakuan complained when he saw a picture of bearded Bodhidharma, "Why hasn't that fellow a beard?"

[pjbridge]

Is he meant to teach something or trying to sell himself????????????????

What's his nationality?

[QuanYin71]

Watching again :) i so love this man !!

haha .. very good .. you need to get stupid ! and simple .. only then can one attain clear mind and understanding ... so it is .. so it is !

[elevatedm]

where does this i come from.. ?

find that... thank you :)

[iscream22]

5:30 I've always pondered that concept, its just the cycle of life death and rebirth

[iscream22]

Thanks for posting!

[QuanYin71]

Gassho ! and lots of thanks !

This is Zen en not-Zen ;)

[Nintendan]

Oh man I so needed this today

[hyangkyi]

YES