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The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys explores the understanding and practice of a contemporary mythology in harmony with 21st Century, global, quantum scientific, universal reality. This curriculum is presented in short cinematic art forms suitable for guided solitary exploration or group discussion.
The foundation of this curriculum was established with the work of Søren Kierkegaard in the 19th Century, expanded by the international Ecumenical Institute in the 20th Century, with the current trajectory established through the East-West encounter and relationship of Fr. Thomas Merton and His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India in December of 1968. The confluence of the deep contemplative currents of East and West informs the work of Interior Mythos Journeys in nurturing contemporary practitioners.
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The foundation of this curriculum was established with the work of Søren Kierkegaard in the 19th Century, expanded by the international Ecumenical Institute in the 20th Century, with the current trajectory established through the East-West encounter and relationship of Fr. Thomas Merton and His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India in December of 1968. The confluence of the deep contemplative currents of East and West informs the work of Interior Mythos Journeys in nurturing contemporary practitioners.
Join this global movement today! Begin by subscribing to this channel and sharing your Comments.
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You Have Everything You Need #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 41День назад
In this short from her 2018 interview with Interior Mythos Journeys, Lauren Lane Powell talks about receiving her cancer diagnosis. Powell was a singer, healer, teacher and storywarrior. After receiving the shocking diagnosis of Stage 3C Ovarian Cancer, she went within for guidance and heard, "Do it differently." You can view her full interview here: ruclips.net/video/jf5l4qNCPXY/видео.html Sub...
Just Practice. #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 3838 дней назад
Shohaku Okumura is a Zen Buddhist Abbot in the Soto Zen tradition. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana and teaches in the Sanshin Zen Community: www.sanshinji.org/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys @ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum ...
Quest for God #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 5315 дней назад
A short clip from Life Journey 7, The Ultimate Journey. Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum Scientific, and Universal Reality in which we all actually live. Learn more at interiormythos.com/ A...
Gifts of Buddhism & Christianity #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 47022 дня назад
The Rev. Adam Bucko talks about the gifts of both Buddhism and Christianity. Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Spiritual Imagination, the Rev. Adam Bucko has been a committed voice in the movement for the renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality and the growing New Monastic movement. He has taught engaged cont...
Find the Path #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 27929 дней назад
Shohaku Okumura is a Zen Buddhist Abbot in the Soto Zen tradition. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana and teaches in the Sanshin Zen Community: www.sanshinji.org/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys @ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum ...
Adventures in Attention
Просмотров 77Месяц назад
Rima Montoya talks about attention, meditation, hypnosis and trance. She was interviewed by Interior Mythos Journeys on June 8th, 2017 in Bloomington, Indiana. Learn more about Rima: www.rimamontoya.com/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in...
Mindfulness Enhanced Creativity #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 455Месяц назад
Rima Montoya shares a connection between mindfulness and creativity. She was interviewed by Interior Mythos Journeys on June 8th, 2017 in Bloomington, Indiana. Learn more about Rima: www.rimamontoya.com/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in...
The Library of Religion #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 48Месяц назад
A short clip from Life Journey 7, The Ultimate Journey. Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum Scientific, and Universal Reality in which we all actually live. Learn more at interiormythos.com/ A...
Find the Place #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 578Месяц назад
Shohaku Okumura is a Zen Buddhist Abbot in the Soto Zen tradition. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana and teaches in the Sanshin Zen Community: www.sanshinji.org/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys @ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum ...
Timelessness Within a Three-Dimensional Vehicle
Просмотров 110Месяц назад
Rima Montoya talks about ways to observe our experience of time. She was interviewed by Interior Mythos Journeys on June 8th, 2017 in Bloomington, Indiana. Learn more about Rima: www.rimamontoya.com/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in har...
Contemplative Silence #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 336Месяц назад
Rima Montoya describes the importance of contemplative silence. She was interviewed by Interior Mythos Journeys on June 8th, 2017 in Bloomington, Indiana. Learn more about Rima: www.rimamontoya.com/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harm...
Maps are Good #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 418Месяц назад
A short clip from Life Journey 7, The Ultimate Journey. Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum Scientific, and Universal Reality in which we all actually live. Learn more at interiormythos.com/ A...
The Meaning of Life #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 613Месяц назад
Shohaku Okumura is a Zen Buddhist Abbot in the Soto Zen tradition. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana and teaches in the Sanshin Zen Community: www.sanshinji.org/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys @ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum ...
Language as Vibrational Transformation
Просмотров 77Месяц назад
Rima Montoya talks about how she uses language in her work with people as a hypnotic coach. She was interviewed by Interior Mythos Journeys on June 8th, 2017 in Bloomington, Indiana. Learn more about Rima: www.rimamontoya.com/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary myt...
Quit the Jargon #interiormythosjourneys
Просмотров 147Месяц назад
Sr Joan Chittister was interviewed by Interior Mythos Journeys in June, 2018, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys here: ruclips.net/user/Interiormythos Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum Scientific, and Universal Reality in which we all actua...
Thank you
Phoenix, we are grateful you have found nurture in this. And we are grateful you have discovered this special channel. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Thanks Okumura Roshi, very liberating ❤
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unfortunately we are in the century of the end of buddhism period or the buddhist called the darkness period and its harder to fond good genuine teachers, many great masters that I have met have passed away to nirvana and the younger generations of teachers unfortunately are expose to many "temptations" in modern society. lets hope many continue to practice hard so that when the darkness period arrived we can be in the land of lights! thank you okumuru you are one pf those rare genuine teachers. I will continue top pray for your good health and well beings so many Americans and sentient beings can continue to benefit from your presence and teachings.
Sebastian, we may all trust that even with the challenges to traditional institutions of Buddhism and the scarcity of true teachers in all religious expressions, Reality will remain and their will always be those few individuals who will serve as the voice of deep truth; as does Shohaku Okumura. Shohaku Okumura has released his role as Abbot and is now officially retired although still practicing and teaching. If you or anyone else wishes to provide support for him at this later phase of his life, you may do so at this link: www.paypal.com/paypalme/shohakuokumura?locale.x=en_US GO Deep!
America is so fortunate to have so many buddhist teachers , it's America good karma and I hope they treasure these great teachers.
Sebastian, America has historically provided a protective environment for immense diversity in religious expression. This remains so today, contrary to what one might discern from the media. May it always be so. GO Deep!
I often come back to these videos again and again , each time I watch the video again , I found something new and informative, his teachings is simple and profound and easily digestible , thank you okumura, I wish I could meet you someday.
Sebastian, yes, this deep well is without bottom; if we are open to the journey, it continues to call us deeper. It is in this deep journey that we are each nurtured. If you ever venture to Bloomington, Indiana, USA we will be delighted to connect you with the sangha of Shohaku Okumura. Until then, the wisdom of Shohaku Okumura infuses the Life Journeys RUclips series. The Life Journey series is presented on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. This can be a good place to start. Check it out and keep in touch! We are grateful you have discovered the essence of this special channel. GO Deep! 🙏
This morning, my coffee pot delivered coffee all over my kitchen floor; a telling metaphor for my life in the moment. So loved the ecstasy of Joe Slicker.
Sharbot, we know we are on a deep journey when we can no longer distinguish between the literal and the metaphoric. May ecstasy abound in the spilled-out-ness! GO Deep! 🙏
Thank you Roshi, you help me more than words can say
Frank, thank you for this kind affirmation. We are grateful to have your voice back on this channel. GO Deep! 🙏
Thank you for your wisdom.
🙏 GO Deep!
Thank you for the depth of your wisdom. I’m 84 years old and still working towards a clear view of life
Georgia, we are lifted by your ongoing practice of seeking a clear view of life. May we all follow your worthy example. We are grateful for your presence on this special channel which is devoted to providing guidance to the deep journey. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
What god think about what white people did to all people on this planet now and then
"keep the life simple and wholesome" - Yes Sir
Bart, thank you for the affirmation. Nice to have you back on the channel! 🙏 GO Deep!
She speaks the reality I know in my heart, mind, and gut. This dialogue with the spirit of this new consciousness is life blood for me. Otherwise the world is repetitive, boring or contentious place for me, and I can only see society coming to extinction.
Richard of Hearts, the Great Giver seems to have gifted us with the freedom and capability to manage an abundant and habitable planet for everyone or destroying ourselves. We sometime wonder what the Great Giver was thinking when gifting us with such freedom? GO Deep!
Ladies & Gentlemen 🙏 _All Religions are concepts but not all concepts are religions;_ _If no one had ever invented religions,_ _no one is needed to deny it._ 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Siewkonsum, yes…yes! GO Deep! 🙏
*_Abbot Shohaku Okumura_* 🙏 _The practice is placeless;_ _The path is directionless;_ _The need to find a place or direction;_ _Implies there is a separate self;_ _That is always seeking for something;_ _To happen and needs to happen;_ _When the sense of the separate Self;_ _Is vanquished, no One is there;_ _To seek or practice anything anymore;_ _Suddenly, _*_Oneness_*_ manifests!_ 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Let us all “GO Deep!” that Oneness may manifest! 🙏
Let us all “GO Deep!” that Oneness may manifest! 🙏
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Alfreddifeo, nice to have you back on the channel. Thank you for the affirmation. GO Deep! 🙏
*Abbot Shohaku Okumura* 🙏 It's impossible to know the purpose of life which itself is an expression of the Universal True Nature localized in an individual's body-mind. And the individual by its sense of a (false temporal) separate self is always earnest to find, know and understand the life purpose of its existence. Which is impossible because its true nature is in an eternal & timeless 'divine' or 'quantum' state of infinite possibilities which cannot be known, predicted, copied or cloned; Why? Because its quantum nature is boundless, timeless & spaceless, for which the finite human mind is unable to 'process' its infinite possibilities of purposes or meanings. 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Siewkonsum, as always, we are grateful for your voice and profound guidance. We are especially grateful for the contemporary language you choose to express this timeless truth. GO Deep! 🙏
The Genuine 'Good for Nothing' Japanese Zen Master ❗... I'm glad that the Brave Nation of Japan is a member of our Western Family of Freedom and Democracy ❗
Maitrey, yes this is an encounter with a genuine Zen Master. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Wonderful teaching, thank you for sharing this
Steve, thank you for this kind affirmation. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Lol sounds like Linda Blair in the Exorcist. Excessive silence makes you weïrd and antisocial. Keep senseless advice to yourself.
Deutschland007, thank you for this insight. We will consider an exorcism. Regardless, we are grateful you have discovered this special channel and hope you will explore some of the other content. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Full speech link
Virt, thank you for this reflection. Please expand on the comment you have shared. Thanks. GO Deep!
@@Interiormythos it's a shorts video. Where can I find full speech video?
Virt, check this out and we will appreciate your reflection: ruclips.net/video/rLTOqyheyqs/видео.html GO Deep!
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We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Questioning reality that others express to me has always been a conscious practice for me. There is a lot in this talk that resonates with me. I grew up a German Lutheran, and Luther’s small catechism that we studied for communion in my church goes went through the 10 commandments and other creeds and continually asks the question, “What does this mean?” Luther was in the process of questioning and renaming the God that was fed to him by the Catholic Church. For me, he encouraged me to find my relation to God and reality.
Richard of Hearts, such questioning and renaming is a viable practice for all of us in exploring a personal relationship to this most-Ultimate of Reality. Thank you for your insight and affirmation. GO Deep!
I've heard the screen metaphor used on other occasions, but never with this clarity in describing the dichotomy between the real and the fictional creation.
GS, thank you for this affirmation. We agree. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Where is this guy from? The accent has me confused.
Erebus, Thank you for the question. Shohaku Okumura is originally from Okinawa Japan. As a young Zen student, he was assigned by his teacher to bring the Soto Zen tradition to the West; in particular the United States. He has spent a lifetime fulfilling this mission. He most recently has served as Abbott in the Sanshin Zen Community located in Bloomington, Indiana where he continues to reside, write, and teach. His message is sprinkled throughout the Life Journeys series you will find on the homepage of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips Channel. Please check it out. GO Deep!
@@Interiormythos Thanks for the reply. My journeying within the dharma began almost 40 years ago, a bit of an amalgamation of Theravada and Soto flavours. At the end of the day, if you look under the robes, they are all essentially the same. I mean, didn't the Buddha hold up a flower, and only Mahakasyapa understood sunyata on that dusty Indian morning.
Erebus, thank you for this profound commentary. Yes, may we all learn to “look under the robes” today. The human family needs us, once again, to hold up a flower! We are grateful for your active voice on this channel; which understands looking under the robes and holding up a flower as its only mission. GO Deep!
Perfect. Zazen, like many other practices is good for nothing.... Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows.....
Erebus, may we all learn to practice the practices that allow the spring to come and the grass to grow! We are grateful for your comment and that you have discovered this special and unique RUclips channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with the Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
i am 38 and found out i got adhd that made me realise why i was like this all these years. I wish a school try to help people with ADHd :(
Tionblack, do you realize that ADHD is your special gift from Reality? The only help you need is the practice of learning to live as the ADHD-gifted human being you are. Life is a funny thing and we all have our special gifts that, in the first instance, we wish we didn’t have or believe the universe made a mistake in giving a specific gift to us. The only journey that can truly heal any of us is the journey into a personal and deep relationship with Reality; which heals all things! We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner; one who practices encountering Reality. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
@@Interiormythos The owner of this message is the Zazen Monk in these videos? or His son ? or Someone else?
Would this person in the video oversee and guide me throu this journey of self discovery? My thoughts are too many and i use medication for adhd its like long release ritalin, does it not count as cheating in buddhism ?I feel like i am cheating even tho medication does not do much for my symptoms considering i have gone throu a lot and i am in pain.Lost my mother and my cat last year and i feel like i am like a sage sitting still in sadness within a hurricane... how can i learn an effective meditation i can manage :(
Tionblack, Abbott Shohaku Okumura of the Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana USA is a meaningful voice and teacher appearing on the Interior Mythos RUclips Channel. You can also find other material and lectures by him on RUclips. He has retired this year from formal duties with the Sanshin Zen Community and we do not believe he is personally available for individual instruction. You can certainly submit an inquiry through the Sanshin website: www.sanshinji.org. The Interior Mythos Journeys team will always respond to your specific inquiries on this channel. The Life Journey series we recommended you consider encountering does hold the essence of much of Abbott Okumura’s guidance in a sequential method over 69 short video messages. We recommend encountering one module per week and interiorly dialoguing with the message throughout the week of living your specific daily life prior to going to the next module in the series. Please also see the response to the second part of your question.
Tionblack, for self-discovery, we strongly recommend the Life Journey series. We know of no better sequential path existing in our contemporary world. We are not concerned at all about the use or non-use of medication in supporting one’s personal journey-of-depth. In your own most-personal dialogue and communion/communication with Reality, it will become clear when such “aids” are helpful or not helpful; needed or no-longer-needed. There is not an absolute answer for the circuitous path of a life. The sadness and the interior hurricane are not unique to you. These come with the package of living an awake life. Remember, Principle #1 articulated by the Buddha: Life is suffering! How this suffering manifests from one individual to another may vary but the underlying reality is universal. Yet if you pursue the deep journey, you will discover at new levels, it is a Friendly Hurricane! Don’t be in too much of a hurry with your practice of meditation or deep interior inquiry. Let the path come to you. It will. GO Deep!
His voice alone is soothing 😌
Runningwhore, yes…yes! The voice says everything; without saying anything. May we all learn to listen deeply to the authentic voice. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
AwakenedEmptiness, should we believe this message? Although, we generally believe Shakyamuni to be a reliable source! 😃 We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Nothing ever happens
MrJbellguitar, and every happening is out of nothing! Thank you for this insightful comment. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
*_Abbot Shohaku Okumura_* 🙏 A person is always in confusion because he or she holds onto, or clings onto a sense of an individual personal 'self'. This 'self' is always relentlessly seeking for external things to be achieved so as to fulfill its incessant desires - thinking by this way it can satisfy itself to overcome sufferings or dissatisfactions; Which is futile life endeavor because the 'self' can never satisfied and its dubious nature is unpredictable & fleeting. The 'self' seems to be real but it is unreal. To overcome the 'self' is to practice - *_Right Views_* on all kind of things a person faces in daily life. Right view can cause a person to understand & realize the true underlying nature of causes and effects of things (objects & phenomena) happening and or to happen - of what is real and what is unreal to enable the person to face daily challenges and to overcome it to live wholesomely. 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Siewkonsum, you consistently give voice to deep understanding and practice. We are grateful for your comments and guidance. The posture and practice of “right views” requires constant vigilance. May we each persevere on this worthy path. GO Deep! 🙏
Truly we are less like stones and more like waves.
Threetails, thank you for this insightful comment. May we all practice our wave-nature! We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep! 🙏
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Corvusthule, thank you for the affirmation and for finding your way to this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep! 🙏
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Haluk, thank you for the affirmation and for finding your way to this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep! 🙏
Abbot Shohaku Okumura 🙏 (To paraphrase) Buddha *_Ji Gong_* says, _(One's True) Nature is the Best Teacher._ 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Siewkonsum, yes…yes! May we all connect with this Best Teacher! GO Deep! 🙏
Thanks for the upload and teaching!
Alex, thank you for the affirmation and for finding your way to this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
The cosmos vibrates (hums) through the entirety of its is-ness, small portions of which we humans can experience as sound.
Sharbot, may we all vibrate with the cosmic hum! GO Deep!
@@Interiormythos and while we are immersed in vibration, can we apprehend the eternal, be who we are called to be and do what we are called to do.
Sharbot, yes…yes! This is the Grand Paradox! GO Deep! 🙏
Eyes looking southeast, mind is in the northwest.
Jugsewell, Thank you for another visit to this special channel. You are becoming a regular! Again, we will appreciate you expanding upon your insight. Most of our staff our not that smart and we will be grateful for any clarification you are willing to share. We contemplatives don’t have a lot on our minds! GO Deep!
The ninety-six kinds of Indian outsiders!
Jugsewell, please feel free to expand upon your reflection. We are glad to hear from you. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel and hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
There is a correction to the captions of this video that we are unable to make on RUclips, so please note that at 2:55, 2:58, and 3:29, Abbot Okumura uses the corresponding adjective, "ascetic", to talk about Buddha's strict practice during that period. However, the term has been incorrectly transcribed as "aesthetic", which has a very different meaning. Thank you!
Wow, you used a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Pat yourself on the back. That has to be an amazing skill.
Waiter: "Who ordered the word salad?" This guy: "over here!"
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JSell, actually, you raise an important insight. Let’s consider nothing. There has been more written, discussed, and proclaimed about nothing, no-thing, and no-thingness than any other single subject in human history. Most of us are comfortable discussing some-thing, because it makes sense to our very-limited rational human minds. The Bible, the Gita, the Koran and the Upanishads, and much other special literature-of-the-deep, are all efforts to illuminate nothing! No-thing-ness and its encounter is the domain of the contemplative. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel and hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
P & R, that’s funny! Be sure to consider the response to JSell above. GO Deep!
Prometheus, yes…yes! Be certain to see the response to JSell above. GO Deep!
Abbot *_Shohaku Okumura_* 🙏 _There are no masters or followers;_ _No one to teach, nothing to learn;_ _The Noble Teachings are Pathless;_ _To whom whose mind is abideless;_ _Shall realize the Dharma suddenly;_ _Is the Open Secret of all Practices!_ 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Siewkonsum, thank you for assisting us all in nurturing the abideless mind! 🙏
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Ali Coach, thank you for this affirmation. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel and hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
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Carol, thank you for this affirmation. We are grateful you have discovered this special channel and hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
My dear friend Richard. He taught one of my favorite classes at DePaul - Mysticism in Religious Traditions. Love love love this guy!!!
Declan, yes…yes! We love Fr. Fragomeni as well. His voice is an important element on this special channel; which we are grateful you have discovered and hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Wrong, foor you
Go Hakka, thank you for this interesting comment. We don’t quite understand your message. Please feel free to say more and we will respond. Until then, we are glad you have found this special channel and hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Very informing. I felt this tension this morning and I just went outside my room in the sunlight of the hall and did a practice I have of first meditation and then tai chi. I am at heart I would say a contemplative person. Nothing was informing me, from within or without, I was in a space of unknowing. It came to me that I was in contact with my essential reality and Ultimate Reality or God. I came away, I believe connected again to my authenticity,.
Richard of Hearts, your personal witness of this truth is deeply appreciated. Yes, there is nowhere else for us to discover the Mystery and the majesty of God othere than in the light in the hall beyond our room. Authenticity and a connection to Reality happen here or nowhere. GO Deep!
It sounds so dramatic 😂
Sailboat, it is so dramatic! And it is not; it just is! Thus, are we invited into the intensity of Pure Being as we practice awakenment to our real, already present, lives! GO Deep!
In other words we have to have the false in order to know the real.
User-zk, human consciousness does not exist without delusion; thus the necessity of unceasing practice. Thank you for your comment. We are grateful for your presence on this special channel and hope you will return often. The voice and message of Shohaku Okumura is one of the many gifts you will experience here. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
What a bliss just to listen to this wonderfull human being ...
Jann, thank you for this affirmation. There is a lot more bliss available! We are grateful you have discovered this special channel and hope you will return often. The voice and message of Shohaku Okumura is one of the many gifts you will experience here. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch! GO Deep!
Sometimes a smile tells you how high a zen person you are meeting❤❤
User, thank you for this insight. It is nice to have your wisdom back on this channel. A smile is an important capability and practice. May we all evolve a smile that floats upon a sea of depth. GO Deep! 🙏