SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery
Dharma talks by Sokuzan from SokukoJi Buddhist Temple in Battle Creek, Michigan.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 510
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Observe Your Production - 03-19-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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/…
00:59:21 |
Fri 17 Mar 2023
Mountains And Rivers (XXVIII) 03-13-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
This Q & A session begins with a question about the teaching, “Don’t do what you’re told.”
https://youtu.be/S8JeMKB5TX4
01:04:40 |
Sun 12 Mar 2023
The Circle Of Thoughts - 03-15-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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_w
00:45:19 |
Sat 11 Mar 2023
Time Is An Illusion - 03-08-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
https://youtu.be/dZjR6_rReMo
00:51:25 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
About Enlightened Society - 03-05-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
https://youtu.be/yRTEi9G180c
01:16:33 |
Sat 04 Mar 2023
Choosing - 03-01-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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/aftv6Djpswk
00:53:36 |
Sat 25 Feb 2023
Illusion and Delusion - 02-26-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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…
00:58:12 |
Thu 23 Feb 2023
Gratitude For What? - 02-19-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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…
01:10:28 |
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Muscles Of Personhood - 02-12-2023 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 …
01:08:41 |
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Observe Production - 02-05-23 By Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 pain…
00:59:23 |
Thu 02 Feb 2023
Names, Standards & Symbols - 01-29-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
https://youtu.be/e9oOtkn8YMQ
01:05:28 |
Sat 28 Jan 2023
Mountains And Rivers - 01-25-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 …
00:57:02 |
Sun 22 Jan 2023
Meet Everything Where It's At - 01-22-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 respo…
01:07:06 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Responsibility - 01-18-23 By Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 …
00:59:25 |
Sun 15 Jan 2023
Empty Of Other - 01-11-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 o…
00:57:49 |
Mon 09 Jan 2023
When Confusion Is Not Confusing - 01-08-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 confu…
00:49:30 |
Fri 06 Jan 2023
WTF - 01-04-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 t…
00:53:10 |
Mon 02 Jan 2023
Boundaries - 01-01-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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, judg…
01:03:11 |
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Open Discipline - 12-28-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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…
01:02:42 |
Tue 27 Dec 2022
Story Traps - 12-25-22 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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 abo…
00:56:47 |
Sat 24 Dec 2022
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