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Podcast by Sokuzan
Episodes
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CCCC - 10-19-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
18/10/2022 Duration: 59minI often say the three C’s are communicate, cooperate and collaborate. The first C is communicate. The way I describe that is 90/10: Listen 90% of the time and talk 10%. If you do the first three C’s, then you have community. https://youtu.be/Ds_Qn_w-pOM
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Meet Everything at the Gate - 10-16-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
16/10/2022 Duration: 01h09minhttps://youtu.be/6k3mE3OPe9Y
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Everything Is The Path - 10-12-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
13/10/2022 Duration: 01h02minhttps://youtu.be/DW0xR2KTWws
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Keep Sitting - 10/09/22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
08/10/2022 Duration: 01h01minThis is a direct instruction from the Vidyadhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: keep sitting. If you’re looking at your mind and watching without objecting, agreeing, or shutting down you begin to see the fundamental nature of confusion in your own mind. It’s not ‘out there’ - that’s a projection. https://youtu.be/jnGcElKcaXw
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Return To The Vow - 10-05 22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
04/10/2022 Duration: 59minhttps://youtu.be/wWuef6JyzAQ
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No Being Angry - 10-02-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
02/10/2022 Duration: 01h05minhttps://youtu.be/RPDiIHCaeZA
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Picking And Choosing - 09/28/22 by SOkuzan - sokukoji.org
27/09/2022 Duration: 01h02minWe are always projecting out onto something what we think it is based on our prejudice. Thinking we are not prejudiced is the very nature of prejudice. Pay attention to what’s coming through the door or down the street. Picking and choosing works well in the relative world. Wanting this and not wanting that is not particularly important or helpful on the spiritual path. Just receive. The absence of choice becomes choiceless. It will be replaced by dependent origination. If you get a little bit of clarity around your insanity, you’ll know what to do. https://youtu.be/6NfaOMQMjHs
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Dharma Talk - 09-25-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
25/09/2022 Duration: 49minhttps://youtu.be/ZBrl1plSIqc
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The Diamond Sutra - 09-21-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
20/09/2022 Duration: 57minhttps://youtu.be/W6-IDgx4lQU
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Basic Sanity - 09-18-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
18/09/2022 Duration: 58minhttps://youtu.be/srRBlzvyVL0
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Ruin Your Insanity - 09-14-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
14/09/2022 Duration: 58minhttps://youtu.be/EzN6YORjdy8
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Just Feel It - 09.11.22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
11/09/2022 Duration: 47minJust Feel It - 09.11.22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org by Sokuzan
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Touch And Go Space - 09-07-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
07/09/2022 Duration: 53minhttps://youtu.be/ANnIWmR4dl4
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Contrivance - 09-04-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
03/09/2022 Duration: 58min#Sokukoji #Sokuzan #Buddhist #Buddhism #Zen #Talk #Sermon #Battlecreek #Michigan #Dharma #awareness #meditation #shikantaza #mindfulness #suffering #dharmatalk #Youtube https://youtu.be/p4RRIIT00gc
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No Selfies - 08-31-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
29/08/2022 Duration: 01h07minSo far, we are free - kind of. But, if you believe, disbelieve or ignore your thought patterns, you’re not free; you’re in a prison of your own making - hopes for this, fear of that - it’s a set up. The “selfie” I’m talking about is the seventh consciousness. It’s not easy to understand. It’s the aspect of consciousness called the klesha mind, also known as klisto-mano-vijñāna. This is that part of the mind that says yes, no or I don’t care. When something happens, the self-centeredness is a knee-jerk reaction. The ability to be aware of it is where you start. This awareness of the grasping at self might take some relaxing of the mind stream. https://youtu.be/Asft_h7BB7Y
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Mountains And Riverbeds - 08-28-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org/donate
28/08/2022 Duration: 53minhttps://youtu.be/RGzIZ_NlLvU
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The Four Moments - 08-24-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji>org/donate
23/08/2022 Duration: 01h09sThis teaching comes out of the Tiantai, or Tendai tradition, which came to Japan around the ninth century. It is similar to Zen Buddhism. The four moments are: forethought, immanent arising, actual arising and passing away. This is about seeing the actual coming and going of things, much more stark, much more vivid, and empty of a self and empty of an other. You probably won’t be able to tune into these instructions unless you have a lot of sitting meditation under your belt. Not being able to do this is awareness; it’s not about accomplishing anything. It’s a concept that’s pointing at something that is not about thought. You can see this. https://youtu.be/vmOHQmf7LTY
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The Vow Is Not A Cover-Up - 08-21-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org/donate
19/08/2022 Duration: 58minThere are sixteen vows, but the basic vow is to be with all things. Whatever arises in your life stream, don’t object to it, don’t agree with it and certainly don’t ignore it. Those are the three poisons. It’s incredibly simple, yet impossible to accomplish. The vow to save all beings, to put others before yourself begins with seeing how selfish you are. It’s about being aware of that, not about stopping it or covering it up with ideas. This is why we have the vow, the offerings, and retuning to the buddha, the dharma and the sangha over and over and over. It feels useless. Accomplishing is the relative language of ego. If it looks like you’re getting somewhere, you’re probably in a rest area. This is a transcendent path. https://youtu.be/issyJRZ4YaY
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Take No Position - 08-17-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org/donate
18/08/2022 Duration: 55minTaking no position requires you to notice the way you move spontaneously from what shows up to a position about it. This is what you need to see. It’s not something you need to figure out, change or modify. Don’t accept anything. You can actually function just fine without a center, without a me. We get our identity from our descriptions of what we like and don’t like. It doesn’t mean that somebody who commits a crime isn’t wrong, it’s the grasping at right or wrong that is a big misunderstanding. We are all the product of dependent origination. Seeing this is done through an awareness practice. https://youtu.be/ktMJB5VT7Lg
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Downsizing Outflows - 08-14-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org/donate
14/08/2022 Duration: 57minSomething triggers us and we have an intense emotional reaction. This is totally appropriate: It’s called dependent origination. The emotion is just a feeling and it doesn’t belong to anyone. We differentiate and divide things up in such a way that we take ownership and add on that it shouldn’t be there. We want things to be different than they are, which is the first noble truth. Whatever arises in your mind stream needs to be there. Don’t do anything with it. It looks like a straight line but it’s a circle and it’s called samsara. https://youtu.be/WWSWnwVkvAc