Samatha Meditation and Vipassana Meditation

Good evening.

Recently, I started a lesson. Actually, I was self-taught while watching books, YouTube, etc. even before I went to lessons, but even when I did, I didn't understand at all whether this was done correctly or whether this was the direction I should go. There are so many teachers on YouTube and there are so many ways to teach, so I don't understand it any more. So I decided to learn by going to a classroom nearby, but with a teacher, I was able to clearly understand whether it was done correctly, and it also became clear how I should learn in the future, and I feel that my progress became faster.

If you also want to properly practice meditation, I think you should do it with a proper teacher. Otherwise, you won't know at all what's right and what's wrong. Self-taught, and when you stick to strange assumptions and can't let go of them, you get lost.
Also, be careful of cults and unscrupulous traders when looking for a mentor.

I will add
If there is a mentor, it would make sense to ask that teacher. Listening to others is disrespectful to your teacher, and is a source of hesitation for you.

The teacher-pupil relationship of a monk is 24 hours long, but the teacher-pupil relationship between a housekeeper and a monk is from time to time, so I think it's fine if you don't mix it up. Even if you go to learn directly, if it's a zazen session at a temple somewhere, do it thoroughly using that mentor's method. If I go to another meditation session, I'll do it the same way there. It's a teacher-pupil relationship while participating, and only then should you do it well in that teacher's way. It's possible to compare yourself later, eventually take one, and throw one away.
In Japanese time, I don't study math on my own, but go to my Japanese teacher with all my might. Dessert is eaten after the main meal is finished.
The trouble is that ascetic practice is within oneself, so even if the form somehow follows the method of the mentor in front of you, it is when your mind inadvertently mixes your own favorite methods and methods of doing things here and there due to your own habits. In particular, I think this is likely to happen when doing it on your own at home, etc.
After all, ascetic practice is a means for getting results, so if you feel that results are hard to come out, isn't there a problem with the mentor's method? In addition to thinking about it, it's a good idea to check whether the person doing it is really doing what you're told. The shape is easy to understand, but the inside of one's heart is hard to understand until you take a really serious look at it.
If there is a comparison target, it's easy to understand the characteristics of the other one, so I think it's a good idea to focus on both until you're satisfied without thinking that you have to narrow it down to one, so split the time for each one.

worship

I'm taking it extremely simply
Counting numbers is an excellent way to check how you are not able to control your consciousness

Not speaking is a way to keep up with how much words can't be expressed and put into practice

No movement is a way to know if you can't control movement

What the three codes of conduct have in common is that they cannot be controlled and applied to students
Leading one's self and others to rest

Now what is the way to focus on one point and aim for blooming all at once
Sometimes it leads to the wrong act of seeking pleasure at the same time as oneself
There is a lot of danger here, so I need a mentor

Each entrance is as described here
By accumulating such meditative time
Encourage internal change
It's about seeking external change

Japanese monk meditation evolved in line with an era a little while ago
I can't easily talk about whether this is good for everyone
It's a story about always needing the power of a mentor

I don't know what stage of understanding my current master is in, and I don't even know what his specialty is, so I can't say anything

Wouldn't it be nice to learn everything?
there is no end to learning, so there are no conclusions

In any case, don't forget that discovering your own problems is the most important thing

What I can express in letters is really childish and I'm sorry that it's too insufficient, but here it is

Gassho

In the postscript, it is written, “It's a pity that the answer was that it was assumed that it was self-taught even though it wasn't written that it was self-taught or not.”

The lack of background explanation is due to your lack of writing.
You should acknowledge that you have a certain responsibility for what you have “assumed.”
If you admit it, you should say sorry for misleading you.
That is the humility of those who beg for answers.

The point where one should be humble is added, saying things that criticized the responding monks, such as “it's a pity that they were answered because they were assumed to be self-taught.” That kind of attitude is “disappointing.”

You can write any kind of question here, but it's not a place where you can ask any kind of attitude.

A few years ago, there was a discussion at the main office of the Soto sect with the title “Dialogues between Meditation and Mindfulness,” and Elder Sumanasara was invited as a panelist. The English translation of just meditating is called JUST SITTING overseas, but in reality it should be JUST BEING.
Zazen is not constellation. Meditation is also more about “really, really ❝ how should it be?” rather than practices, schools, or methods The extreme of pursuit called “❞” is important. This is because if not, it will end up with just the lines of doing Rinzai, doing samatha, or just meditating.
Even nembutsu and zazen alone will have different interpretations depending on the monk. Buddhism, which has different interpretations from person to person, is not actually Buddhism, but interpretation/Buddhist studies. That's why Dogen Zenji was preached as “justice.” If one hundred people are one hundred people, and the interpretation differs from person to person, then anything is fine.
Since it cannot be called Buddhism, it was valued for taking the law, getting the right, and attaining Buddhism.
The attitude that a person seeking the path should have is not to do a cut called Buddhist practice ABC, but whether actual feit/dharma = good law, and score is achieved through the ABC.
The essence of meditation is not breathing, taking a few breaths, or sitting.
Rather than how Vipasana and Samata behave, they actually “what should happen” through “it.” If this pursuit isn't right, they'll just do it. How can a settlement be reached? The pursuit here. If you don't take care of the runway and don't fly, you'll end up continuing to run only on the runway even though you have wings.
An excellent master who was enshrined in Zen Monk said, “The feeling of taking a few breaths is the view of taking a few breaths, not zazen.”
Great leaders won't let them stay that way. Even if I make it happen, I won't let it happen next time or the day that is far away. I won't let you take a detour. What should I do? Rather than how the behavior or method is, there is probably use in the place itself that is guided and clarified by it. That's why true mentors advocate that. What is even more important is the person's own bodhisattva heart.
Even though you hear the sound of one hand and read each letter, are there any differences between the labels Rinzai, Samata, Vipasana, and Meditation based on your feelings? It probably won't be there.
We determine the essence of Buddhism from such sources.
If you have the ability to discern that, there is nothing that isn't Buddhism, whether it's nembutsu, zazen, or vipasana, work, cooking, or what you're doing now.
If you have a negative reaction to someone who has kindly answered, there is an answer to devising ways that don't make you feel sorry for that sorry heart. ✨

Hasunofuasama

The practice of zazen meditation is a form of meditation (one) that requires a balance between cessation and observation.

If you want to learn the theory for proper practice of observation,

When it comes to Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, I recommend “Tendai Magashikan.”

If you want to learn how to observe Tibetan Buddhism, I recommend “The Great Theory of the Bodhi Path.”

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho