DADA's Children 5 - Heaven and Hell
The last jam - originally recorded sometime in the early 1994
Stever Potter, Terry Marcozzi, Bill Schaeffer
copyright (c) 2012
William Schaeffer
From the book: "Questions to a Zen Master" Taisen…
DADA's Children 5 - Heaven and Hell
The last jam - originally recorded sometime in the early 1994
Stever Potter, Terry Marcozzi, Bill Schaeffer
copyright (c) 2012
William Schaeffer
From the book: "Questions to a Zen Master" Taisen Deshimaru, E.P. Dutton,NY NY,
p.37
"What is meant by Heaven and Hell?
Read Dante, or the Christian Bible. It's the same in Buddhism. But I turn the question back to you because I cannot decide.
In Zen we must create heaven here and now, not hell. It is we who make heaven or hell in our mind.
When I was a child my mother used to tell me, "If you're bad you'll go to hell. If you're good you'll go to heaven." Then I was afraid but when I grew up I said to myself, "If I got to hell; people must have more freedom there. I'll become the devil's friend," or, "If I go to heaven with Buddha I'll be forever having arguments with my mother and I won't have any freedom at all..."
Later, I asked my master Kodo Sawaki that question... Kodo Sawaki taught me that heaven and hell are in our mind.
We cannot decide whether they exist or not. Nobody has come back. Once people are in their coffins they don't come back to tell us. But here and now, it is our mind that makes hell and heaven. Master Dogen wrote very deeply on the subject.
We must create heaven here and now. If we suffer, if we doubt, everything can become hell. We must build heaven. If our mind is at peace, the atmosphere around us becomes heaven.
p. 39
"What happens after death? This is a religious problem, and it is not necessary to think too much about it. People who don't want to die are always worried about it. In Buddhism you will find no commentary on after-death. 'Here and now' is what is essential. Metaphysical issues cannot be settled one way or the other. Their premesis can be neither confirmed nor disproved; nothing can be decided about them."
Song Listing:
00:00 That's Right - I Know What You Mean
06:44 Mega Drum Jam
11:52 Two Penny Whistle Blues
17:45 Wait For Me
19:14 Race Day
21:53 Children Crying
22:53 Bicycle Bell
31:41 Heaven and Hell
