Buddhist Monastery Podcasts

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This is to help people see how they can work with relationships: listen 90% of the time and talk 10%. It’s an impossible form, but it lets you know just how much you run your mouth. Listen to everyone, even if they’re not saying anything yet.https://youtu.be/zMbaAzo9ATUΑπό τον Sokuzan

Don’t ignore the silence by grasping onto what creates the idea of a space or silence. Something comes up in our mind as language about everything. The quality of thought has different dimensions or depths to it. Get used to that and get to know yourself by watching your mindstream.https://youtu.be/K6jHmMsz2rk…

All dharmas are without fault and without blame. It’s about awareness of what’s happening and not about a success story. It’s very hard not to judge or blame. Have the courage to look at what shows up in your mind steam moment by moment, even though there are no actual moments.https://youtu.be/lpQg1ZpA0A0…

This is often missed because we put our ideas, our thoughts, our memories and our judgements over the top of something that is completely shimmering in front of us. It’s wordless.https://youtu.be/zhuoz7trqI4Από τον Sokuzan

This is a continuation from Saturday’s all-day sesshin talk. Relationships are always changing, always difficult. Whatever is showing up that’s coming toward you as an Apparent Other, just receive it. It’s not exactly other than you.https://youtu.be/KfAHskq7Y_kΑπό τον Sokuzan

The forgiveness I am addressing here is not about the minor things having to do with being polite and respectful of other people. I am talking about when you think you can forgive somebody for something. You cannot. This just perpetuates the confusion that we’re dealing with all over the world, all the time. First, don’t blame, then you won’t be dr…

If you see what this is it’s very mirror-like. It’s not reflecting anything other that that which is observing it, which is consciousness. Everything you see is mirroring you all the time. The encouragement with the this example is to see that its objectivity resides mainly in what’s being reflected in it.https://youtu.be/LCmIbhwgvW8…

Radical in the sense of going to the root of something means first looking at what is showing up. You’re going to have to look at the stems and leaves before you can find the root. I’m recommending to you that you don’t waste another minute of your life not looking at what this is fundamentally.https://youtu.be/drP3i0HErpI…

Starting with the sitting practice of meditation, just sitting still without being focused, there’s a that edge arises. Then there’s an overlap; that’s the protective part. That’s where we see the way we begin to disguise ourselves and come to conclusions about who we are. Don’t so anything with that. Just observe.https://youtu.be/KMNFd4wYNZ4…

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Learning is not about facts, although we may need some relative knowledge. We need to be respectful of the different ways people receive and handle information. Do not set up standards; that can actually flatten things out.https://youtu.be/CO4346n0QJkΑπό τον Sokuzan

What I’m endeavoring to point to is very challenging and very difficult to see. I’m endeavoring to give your true identity back to you, simply put. Seeing what this is looks like you don’t really see anything. It’s empty of what appears but it’s full of what it is.https://youtu.be/vuSpwDasaA4Από τον Sokuzan

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche brought this concept up to date when he came to the west. I prefer to use the word protector; The ultimate warrior protects the world. I say don’t go to war, don’t go to peace. Don’t take a position.https://youtu.be/Fh9f0a31K0cΑπό τον Sokuzan

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Dependent origination is not parts; it’s really more than that. Nagarjuna says, “Neither samsara nor nirvana exist, but all is a complex continuum [a matrix] with an intrinsic face of void. The object of ultimate awareness, the nature of all things, appears like a reflection; pure and naturally quiescent with a non-duality identity of suchness.”htt…

Observe what you produce on the cushion and in your life. The thought production is covering up what it is you need to see. Receive whatever is happening without your comment on it.https://youtu.be/-AxnE8iUCfQΑπό τον Sokuzan

Observe what you produce on the cushion and in your life. The thought production is covering up what it is you need to see. Receive whatever is happening without your comment on it.https://youtu.be/6uSmD5UnaGkΑπό τον Sokuzan

This Q & A session begins with a question about the teaching, “Don’t do what you’re told.”https://youtu.be/S8JeMKB5TX4Από τον Sokuzan

Just watch the rotation that is trying to seduce you into into some kind of thought pattern of passion, aggression or ignorance. That which is observing does nothing.https://youtu.be/JjOw-DWx4_wΑπό τον Sokuzan

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Choosing keeps the delusion going. By choosing, we hide out and we create an artificial situation that looks like we have some control. We do not.https://youtu.be/aftv6DjpswkΑπό τον Sokuzan

Most of the world is operating out of delusion. Something shows up and immediately we project onto it; what that is, how it should be. We are constantly correcting. Most of the world has no spiritual path. It is is not about feeling better and not about results.https://youtu.be/mk8XUbyXa1sΑπό τον Sokuzan

Let’s start with the basics; be grateful for gravity. Receive the ordinary magic of everything. Be grateful for your life, that you can breathe, that you have a mind stream, that you have the 6 sense fields and their objects, and that you can receive.https://youtu.be/6KKTV7hhvVAΑπό τον Sokuzan

The intention is to help you get an idea of the circles your mind has been going in since you were born. It’s called samsara: everything is going in circles. Habitual patterns keep us doing this. It can slow down or disappear, but only through awareness, as far as I know.https://youtu.be/67PfUw7d1VgΑπό τον Sokuzan

You actually receive most of your thoughts, you don’t produce them. Why? Because there isn’t anyone; there’s no solid you. What you’re looking at you cover up with your projections. The truth is painful; as the buddha said, life is suffering.https://youtu.be/XV1VCqd-e48Από τον Sokuzan

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How do we put others before ourselves in the midst of our negativity? Look at the way you can’t quite do that, even though you’ve received this vow. Don’t fix anything. If you practice and practice and practice, eventually you will see reality.https://youtu.be/xkWi-7wT0i4Από τον Sokuzan

Meet everything where it’s at, starting with what’s arising in your own mind stream. Don’t add to it, don’t subtract it, don’t judge it and don’t blame somebody for it. The emotion is yours. Be responsible for your feelings.https://youtu.be/x4U_a7VIv5sΑπό τον Sokuzan

Whatever shows up, don’t shift it to something else. Be responsible for anything that arises in your mind stream. The ability to respond means that you will consider everything that’s in your milieu to see what this is fundamentally.https://youtu.be/AqPVTWzfar4Από τον Sokuzan

What was it that set the foundation for the lineage we call Zen? Chiezan talks about the beginnings of our tradition of direct transmission of the mind.https://youtu.be/V3RcVdrqrGUΑπό τον Sokuzan

We quite often hear about of empty of self, that there is no one here. It’s also empty of other. Another way of addressing this is non-duality, or advaita. There is nothing observed and there is no one observing. Bluntly stated, it is the illusion of consciousness showing up as this or that individual. There’s just observing, or consciousness only.…

I’m looking at confusion all the time. My teachers have helped me see that you don’t have to get rid of anything. It will not particularly be comfortable, and it doesn’t mean you don’t feel the confusion and distress, because consciousness always finds whatever form that it needs. Look at the leading edge of everything.https://youtu.be/8YNRI6WJFng…

Suddenly something just starts to get hold of us and draws our attention away from what we were intending to do. Just feel it, receive it, be it, and don’t accept it, reject it or ignore it; that’s the path. Just keep returning and observing. When the emotions get stirred up, just receive that.https://youtu.be/lFiT4mbcTTI…

There’s a natural boundary between any two things. There are the boundaries we set up to protect our property, and boundaries based on fear. It is about being aware of them, not about believing, judging or concluding. This is why we sit down and gaze at the wall, to see the delusions that are the walls of the mind.https://youtu.be/Qx7KND0tv_M…

It’s hard to come up with a standard that will fit each person - it can be situational. The standard is the discipline, the structure. It’s very definite, and it’s very necessary to have strong forms. Once you decide to conform to this discipline, then it’s necessary to use the forms that are showing up.https://youtu.be/s__d-8Spf58…

We constantly tell ourselves stories about what we should and shouldn’t do. The motivation is the ego trying to protect itself. We don’t want anybody, including ourselves, to see who we are. It’s about getting caught in the story trap, not trying to correct it. See the way you do this.https://youtu.be/qM52lZynx08…

The first wake up is to see how you are being controlled by everything; your beliefs, your culture, your ideas. The second wake up is to the possibly of seeing who you really are and what all this is.https://youtu.be/TDNg86mcpa4Από τον Sokuzan

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