You can't see my not seeing

Zoketsu Norman Fischer at San Francisco Zen Center's Green Gulch Farm, February 25, 2007 • Download from SFZC's Audio Dharma page (donate)

why can’t you see my not seeing? • you can’t see my seeing • consciousness isn’t anything, yet it’s the most important thing • the aging king and the Buddha • how has the seeing itself changed since you were three years old? • Mother and bagels, death and Buddhism, changing the subject • believing we will not die, but misidentifying the self • many feelings that assume that there is an object in the world called yourself • seeing the box, not the empty space inside • this is all a fundamental basis for practice, learn it for yourself, and then don’t think about it • lovingkindness, not as a nice sentiment, but as the expression of how the world actually feels to us • no inside, no outside, and no in between • mountain seat ceremony and the maturing of a uniquely American and Buddhist institution