Q3-19890525-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-anapanasati_full_awareness_of_breath_series_tape_13-33816 Leandra Te

Talk: 19890525-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-anapanasati_full_awareness_of_breath_series_tape_13-33816 Leandra Tejedor Start_time: 00:44:34 Display_question: What you said about shifting focus, and to have that level of concentration, to be able to move the focus, I think is extremely helpful. Keyword_search: concentration, samadhi, Joju-Chinese Buddhist master, China Question_content: Questioner: What you said about shifting focus, I think is extremely useful, because it's a kernel of the thing you're worrying, or the pain, a particular thing, or whatever it is. And to have that level of concentration, be able to move the focus, I think is extremely helpful. Larry: Okay, now that's again, the beauty of Samadhi, because that is Samadhi, when it's pliable that's what I meant by the pliable part. It's fit. It can just go here; it can go there. And what it gives you is, put in other words; it would be there are other ways to look at everything. Like, when we are suffering a lot, when we get attached to something and we're suffering a lot, it's as if there's only one way to look at it. He said, and she said, that one. But then what samadhi says, there's another angle. Which try looking at it from this point of view, and often we resist it because we don't want to drop it. It's hard to do that. Break_line: There was a very great, in my own opinion, one of the greatest Buddhist masters was, Joju, a Chinese Buddhist master. And he had a striking way of teaching. And people came from at one point, someone asked him, how do you teach? What is your dharma? How do you teach? And he said, I have no teaching. And I said, oh, come on. What's your teaching? He said, I don't have a teaching. He said, look, there are thousands of people coming from all over to China to study with you, and you're saying that you don't have a teaching? He said, okay, this is what I mean. All I do is, people come in front of me, I see what their most cherished possession is, and I just snatch it away from them. That's all I do. For one person, it's their vanity. For another person, it's their money. For another person, it's their suffering. Whatever they're clinging to, I find ways to snatch it away from them, or essentially to teach them how to, in effect. And he said, that's all I do. I just sit there, and I wait. Okay, what's this person cherishing? Okay. And just money. All right, we'll just go at money. End_time: 00:46:38