Shohaku Okumura - Full Interview

My interview with Shohaku Okumura, founding abbot of Sanshinji Zen Community in Bloomington, IN, for my documentary focussing on the history and development of Zen Buddhism in America.
More interviews for this project:
Interview with Hoko Karnegis: • Hoko Karnegis - Full I...
Interview with Daniel Doju Layton: • Daniel Doju Layton - F...
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  • @daishugyo
    @daishugyo5 жыл бұрын

    Hojo-san is wonderful to listen to. His knowledge, calm speech, tranquility and peace make it a privilege to learn from him. Great interview and of course, great answers! I personally would be terribly grateful if you kept this video online and allowed as many people as possible to watch it. Thank you!

  • @frncscbtncrt
    @frncscbtncrt2 жыл бұрын

    Okumura Roshi has helped me so much

  • @Hassan-bg8is
    @Hassan-bg8is3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing this

  • @paintpaper9
    @paintpaper97 ай бұрын

    Thank you.💫🤍

  • @akemie2940
    @akemie29405 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for uploading this man!

  • @ThoseWhoDare
    @ThoseWhoDare9 ай бұрын

    ❤ just practice 🙏

  • @sanshinzencommunity
    @sanshinzencommunity4 жыл бұрын

    For more videos of Shohaku Okumura, check out his temple's KZread channel here: kzread.info

  • @gentianvandewerken929
    @gentianvandewerken9292 жыл бұрын

    People are after the exotic symmetrically alined persons from the east's answers, - -- - while the west with its dynamics of working softest softness practiced /opens up human life on heavens earthly fields luxury of being/ beyond what the symmetrically aiming person can attain!LOLHe looks like a lovely human-being/ stuck in man made ideation of symmetry, you can see the pain of it in his eyes, while the free flowing scrappy sacred luxury carving all creations field in softest softness goes unnoticed unpracticed direct and physically /the original creation of us being created still!

  • @sala8053

    @sala8053

    2 жыл бұрын

    Intresting take on it.🤔

  • @avinashlilmohan8102
    @avinashlilmohan81022 жыл бұрын

    This is like the vlad tv of interviews

  • @mcgee227
    @mcgee2273 жыл бұрын

    You think Christianity is alive there? You should try being Buddhist in the south. Understanding is low, hate is high.

  • @likenl4508
    @likenl45082 жыл бұрын

    Why follow the teachings of Buddhism when God said Behold, this is My Son, listen to Him. A man has little wisdom in what he knows because the Creator is Who gives wisdom. Isaiah 43:10 says Before Me there was no God, neither will there be one after Me. Jesus said No one, not a single soul, goes to God but by Me. You need Jesus to know and have peace with God. Jesus died in the sins of the world and rose from the dead and said I Am the Way the Truth and the Life. Jesus said if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father and not one word that Jesus spoke came from Himself but from the very mouth of God. So why follow false teachings when Jesus said Follow Me.? Jesus is Lord of all the earth and every knee will bow before Him and confess that He is Lord. Seek the Lord Jesus because He came to save sinners like you and me. His love is Greater than all. Turn to the Lord Jesus and confess the True God into your life and walk in Him. For without Jesus, the gates of hell welcome all those who don't have peace with God through Jesus, His Son.

  • @frederickmagill9454

    @frederickmagill9454

    2 жыл бұрын

    Really, he has little wisdom, but a trifle more than you have.

  • @siewkonsum7291

    @siewkonsum7291

    2 жыл бұрын

    So sorry to say - you are like a parrot - cut, copy & paste, parrot, repeat or relay say others' wisdom texts or scriptural gospels which anyone could get it from the Bible or Internet. Which are the "wisdom truths or sayings" of others who discovered it by their own realizations. Which are 'dead' words of 'dead' meanings to you or anyone, except the original seekers! Now, May SK Sum ask you - What is/ are your OWN Truth/s realized by your OWN experiential realization or awakening? express it in your OWN words!