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Every Breath You Take 94: Seeing People of Right Livelihood [1]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, December 18th, 2010

The crow broadcasts through the still, cool air of this December morning.
[in response to crow crowing outside on the grounds]

What's the crow broadcasting?

Well, maybe his job availability. [students giggle]

What's their job?
Well, you may have not noticed or you may have noticed not,
but those crows,
very busy guys.
They're the ones dealing with road kill.
Have you ever wondered where all those little flattened squirrels go?
Well, inside of the crows who clean them up.

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Every Breath You Take 93: Seeing People Debate [2]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, December 11th, 2010

With EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE,
with every breath that breathes you,
you have an opportunity to
practise the whole bodymind
in the whole moment.
You see and you're learning to see,
and you're seeing more clearly more often,
patterns that have formed that tend to grab attention,
or that attention is pulled toward
that narrow the field of experiencing,
that condition
what you do experience and what you do notice.

So you notice attention caught up in something, some dharma,

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Every Breath You Take 92: Seeing People Unarmed [3]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, November 27th, 2010

Breathing in and out,
in the bright, clear morning of the Hatto,
a little bit of snow has fallen outside and light reflected off the snow brightens the day even further.

So you're breathing in and out,
you're alive...
for now.
But since now is what's going on,
feel that breath,
sit up straight,
open that eye gaze,
notice seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, feeling, smelling,
the clothes on your body,
this moment:
bright
right now.

The verse:

Seeing people unarmed,

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Every Breath You Take 91: Seeing Armored People [4]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, November 6th, 2010

It's a funny thing,
when we let it,
when we are willing to take the chance,
EVERY BREATH WE TAKE
can show us what it is to be a human being.
It can show us misunderstandings.
It can show us that not only do we not know everything, we really don't know anything at all.
That's kind of funny.

But...

Universally, we pretend that we know,
we know the right way,
we know the right way to be,
we know how everyone else should be.

Sounds kind of harmless,

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"So Intimate it Cannot be Personal": Dharma Talk 2: "This Time It’s Personal" [5]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Jinmyo Renge osho

Dainen-ji, September 24th, 2011
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Every Breath You Take 90: Seeing People Who Are Disciplined [6]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, October 30th, 2010

Feel that breath.
Feel the rise and fall of the shoulders,
the ribs.
Feel the movement of the clothing on your body.
See the seeing,
colours and forms.
And sounds...
hear the hearing.
Notice anything that's arising.

At the moment of noticing anything whatsoever,
and that anything can be a little squiggly thing floating in the jelly of your eye,
or it can be a thought,
or it can be a sensation in the knee,
anything
whatsoever,

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Every Breath You Take 88: Seeing Aristocrats [7]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, October 16th, 2010

This whispering of the leaves reminds us that everything that's born will die.
Those leaves were once just little buds and then they unfurled,
spent the summer doing their thing,
making food,
and now it's time...
The colours come out,
the green disappears and then the leaf falls from the tree.

But in the meantime, there's the whispering, moved by the same air which you are breathing in and out.

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Every Breath You Take 87: Seeing Mendicants [8]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, October 2nd, 2010

Well, up to this point the breath has been rattling the bones in each and every one of you, so you are alive.

“Eh... who cares?”

“Yeah. Hrmph. But there's so much that I have to do...”

“Oh my goodness, here I am, I'm sitting on a beautiful, beautiful October morning and I have to write that letter...”

or

“I have to take care of this thing, what am I doing?”

And then there's a moment, you go: “Oh!” and Knowing, which is what you really are, says:

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Every Breath You Take 81: Seeing People Who are Happy [9]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, July 10th, 2010

Yesterday, here in Ottawa
it was hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot...
People were walking on the street,
they were riding on the buses,
they were riding their bikes,
they were riding in their cars,
shiny with sweat.

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Every Breath You Take 86: Seeing People Without Gratitude [10]

Dharma Talk Presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho
Dainen-ji, September 18th, 2010

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
can be felt with the whole bodymind
each cell vibrates with the oxygen
that supplies the energy
that in the mitochondria in the body
ignites
and provides energy.

The verse today is:

Seeing people without gratitude,
"May all beings
Not add to the punishment
Of those who are hurtful."

Well. Well well well. Well...

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[3] http://www.wwzc.org/book/every-breath-you-take-92-seeing-people-unarmed
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