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Don't Buy In - 03-17-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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https://youtu.be/HnmB91AJ_HsΑπό τον Sokuzan
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The fundamental issue is the suffering, anxiety and difficulty we run into, sometimes with no apparent cause. We are trying to squeeze some happiness out of samsara. You can’t fix it. This is the illusion you need to see. If you see this, nothing will be running your life.https://youtu.be/kL1GDEqPOS4…
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We tend to believe what shows up in our minds; it feels safer and more comfortable. The teaching here is that it’s an illusion. Just believing that this is an illusion doesn’t mean that it won’t continue to delude you. The two fundamental areas we need to see clearly are belief in a self as a separate being and belief that there is an other. It nee…
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No Location - 02-18-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Ways Of Knowing - 02-11-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Illusion Listens To Illusion - 02-04-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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You Are The Seer - 01-31-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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What's Being Covered Up? - 01-28-24 with Sokuzan - Sokukoji.org
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Recognizing The Help - 01-21-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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https://youtu.be/HcRAn1ykQ8kΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Without And Within - 01-17-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Instead of trying to do things out in the world, go within. Slow down, sit still, and watch the continued, very subtle movement in your mind stream. Everything is dependently arisen.https://youtu.be/GY_RGOZW3hsΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Not Knowing Is Most Intimate - 01-14-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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This talk title is a line from a classical text in Soto Zen literature: verse 20 in the Book of Serenity. You don’t have to know anything, but you have to study and receive everything. Stop responding out of some kind of interpretation based on your conflicting emotions about the nature of reality.https://youtu.be/UyazzC2VUIY…
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Part of a series of talks, this is the first of the four reminders that return our minds to the dharma. First contemplate the preciousness of being free and well favored: our precious human birth.https://youtu.be/bS-I4YKTWGgΑπό τον Sokuzan
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The Confusion Is The Awakening - 01-10-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Look at the confusion without stories about how to fix it. You have no control - that’s the illusion we are buying in to.https://youtu.be/ge8O5KtNb4UΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Chiezan answers students’ questions about meditation and practice in this Q and A format.https://youtu.be/LKihlG3Im60Από τον Sokuzan
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The Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma - Basic Buddhist Teachings - 01-05-23 - sokukoji.org
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In Buddhism there are six or sometimes ten paramitas (perfections). The first paramita is dana, or the traditional gesture of giving, particularly to the monastic community through alms and material goods. What makes it a little different from a more traditional generosity is there is nothing transactional about it. One gives freely without expecti…
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Return To The Intention To See The Truth - 12-31-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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You don’t have to be a Buddhist, but this is so important: you need to find the truth, to be aware, to donate your awareness to everything. You can’t maintain it. There’s no correct way to do this. Just return. Awareness doesn’t go anywhere.https://youtu.be/0B7p83GHdh0Από τον Sokuzan
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Mountains & Rivers XXXIV - 12-27-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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In this Q & A format, a student asks, “What is the meaning of our precept of no attaching to fruition (fulfillment)?” Sokuzan answers, “See how you’re attached to outcomes. It’s about observing the attachment, not some kind of a standard that you have not live up to.”https://youtu.be/er7-o6RCWggΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Mountains & Rivers XXXIII - 12-24-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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These questions from students include, “What is the meaning of the sixteenth Karmapa’s teaching that nothing happens?” What appears to be happening is an illusion. There are many ways to talk about this apparent singularity that doesn’t last.https://youtu.be/CjTvfQuY0VoΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Sokuzan answers more questions from sangha in this Q and A formatted talk: What creates other? “Fear.” What creates fear? “Believing your thoughts and emotions.”https://youtu.be/QW1TBBgx-nIΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Mountains & Rivers XXXI - 12-17-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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A student asks: “If we don’t do anything with what’s arising, does that mean we're not functioning out of what’s arising?” If you see what is actually happening, you won’t do much: no commentary, just receive whatever shows up.https://youtu.be/Qr9L5lRMWmwΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Mountains & Rivers XXX - 12-13-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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If whatever shows up is what we need to see, does that include pushing away what’s showing up? What is the difference between meditation and sitting still? Sokuzan answers students questions about practice and meditation.https://youtu.be/iApaJciDuwMΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Mountains & Rivers XXIX - 12/10/23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Questions from sangha include how to keep going on the path, and, "What is perception without a self?" Consciousness masquerades as a self.https://youtu.be/tlnizqfwkBUΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Don't Think About It - 11-29-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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You don’t have to stop your thoughts, but you do have to relate to them clearly and sanely. A teaching that might help you do that is alternating sense awareness practice (ASAP). This is about including, in particular the five sense fields of touch, sight, hearing, smelling and tasting.https://youtu.be/qEF6622JtCU…
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Projecting Confusion - 11-26-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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The projecting part is thinking things occur because of our interpretation of the situation. We conclude without really looking beyond our thoughts about it. Only awareness sees beyond thought. Thought is trapped by thought.https://youtu.be/G3ruIm_Uqz0Από τον Sokuzan
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Ego Algorithms - 11-19-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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These are opinions or structures we use to protect self-centeredness and to reify and reinforce that we are someone going somewhere and doing something, which is also ego. The impulse is to stop it. Just try to be aware of what’s happening rather than trying to control it.https://youtu.be/qhw3tZVIa1k…
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Commenting On What Arises - 11-15-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Something happens and instead of just receiving what that is, we comment on it: thinking, judging, concluding. Rarely do we receive something as it is, unless it’s so intense, we can’t help but receive it. It’s not about getting rid of anything; it’s about awareness.https://youtu.be/vc8g21FbGjIΑπό τον Sokuzan
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A reading from the Majima Nikaya, the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, speaks about the bondage and shackles of of theorizing. The Buddha said, “It does not lead to nirvana; This is the danger I perceive in these views, which makes me discard them all.“https://youtu.be/1QTfjFiqwPIΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Empty Of Self Empty Of Other - 11-05-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Empty of Other is a third turning teaching. The otherness is what confuses the self-centeredness and gives the illusion that you have some say so about things. That doesn’t mean there isn’t something here, but it’s not a centralized entity, a ‘me’ with some kind of credential. Bodies come and go - you don’t go anywhere.https://youtu.be/Q8K3pgIDnew…
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Just Observe - 11-02-23 by Sokzuan - sokukoji.org
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It’s very important to just observe. We never can look at what something actually is. We add on things; what that is and, and almost imperceptibly, the person who is looking at it. We create an individual over and over again. Not only is what it looking at is unreal but that which is being looked at or observed is unreal.https://youtu.be/0OJvaOL0xx…
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Therapy And Meditation - 10-29-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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A subject that comes up with students that there is often misunderstanding about is therapy, and how it relates to meditation. There are many ways to get into the structure of the way in which you’re confusing yourself. A good therapist will meet you, “where you’re at.”https://youtu.be/w1Ngynkd8VAΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Confusion Is Not Confused - 10-25-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Observe the Confusion. If you try to fix it, change it or cover it up, you’ll miss what it actually is because you’re running away from what you think it is. It is not separate from you and also not the same as you. If you see confusion clearly, this is wisdom.https://youtu.be/OwFGbmqFOtYΑπό τον Sokuzan
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When Concepts Rule - 10-22-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Concepts rule when you grasp onto your thoughts and ideas and the emotional dynamics that are reinforced by that structure. Just watch the movement that arises around any particular story.https://youtu.be/DtlqaY-_wDIΑπό τον Sokuzan
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Why Meditate? - 10-18-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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I’m not trying to convert you to Buddhism. You can just meditate without doing that. If you don’t meditate, you are at the mercy of your passion, aggression, and ignorance, your self deception. If you know about it, it starts to come apart. If you don’t know about it, it will run your life.https://youtu.be/Pi4856vHXDg…
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The Vow - 10-15-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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The vow to be with all things, or to save all beings, is the third of the three pure precepts. This means putting others before yourself and it is very hard to do. Don’t disrespect people’s confusion by correcting them. Anything that arises, give it the benefit of the doubt.https://youtu.be/Wy6DsSHM2yQ…
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Don't Maintain - 10-11-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Just observe. Everything is fluctuating and changing so much that if you try to maintain a standard or a rule, everything crystallizes into something that has no oxygen and doesn’t breathe or move with everything else that is dependently arisen. Don’t maintain, just return.https://youtu.be/N6lIJ78-7K0…
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Illusion Speaks - 10-08-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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This illusion is speaking to you. There’s no way I can lie to you and no way I can tell you the truth; YOU have to see it. The very nature of illusion is to grasp at relative truth, duality. There is no solid character that is substantial. Anytime you grasp at something you take all of its light away.https://youtu.be/xXpRhl3mVyg…
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My Teachers - 10-04-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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If you want to be an educator, practice meeting people ‘where they are at.’ Every single person is completely unique. Sokuzan talks about the teachers who responded to what was showing up in his mind stream rather than some authority about what was being taught. You don’t have to know, you don’t have to understand, you have to see what this is.http…
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Teacher And Student - 10-01-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Sokuzan talks about his relationship to his teachers, and how the relationship to a teacher might show up for you. An insightful teacher will know who they are teaching. The student is one who understands what it means to be a student. It’s important to be genuine, honest and sincere with each other.https://youtu.be/RBlUPlDhi7A…
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There has to be a sky in order to have clouds. There has to be a foundation, and here it starts with Shikantaza. It’s not the importance of what arises in the sense fields, it is the space in which it occurs. See what arises in that fundamental space without doing anything with it.https://youtu.be/-ok8yGbVKCU…
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An Illusion Cannot Be Corrected - 09-24-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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If you think everything around you is real, you’ll continue to torture yourself with the illusion that you’re deluded by. You don’t have to get rid of the illusion; just see that it’s not real. It won’t be a conclusion. If you see through the illusion, you’ll just see yourself.https://youtu.be/6noqk256RZI…
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