Waterfall Meditation Explained

Why do Yamabushi stand under freezing waterfalls?
What does it have to do with a flaming, sword-wielding Buddha?
And what can it teach us about staying still in chaos?

Find out in the video.

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Image credits:

Vairocana
By Unknown author - https://m.sohu.com/n/486519965/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By Patrick20242023 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Bardo
By Nyingma Lineage - http://www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Tokin image from Irasutoya
大きな杖、ほら貝の笛、ぼんぼんの付いた結袈裟など、独特な装備をして山の中で修業をする、山伏（やまぶし）のイラストです。
https://www.irasutoya.com/2015/11/blo...

Gomakito
唐山健志郎 at the Japanese language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b..., via Wikimedia Commons

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Acala
Kaikei, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Shoren’in
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Five Wisdom Kings
By Unknown author - Traditional Japanese painting of the Five Wisdom Kings, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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