Specifically edited for listeners who have only ten minutes to listen. This abridged version of Sokuzan's full talk contains 7 minutes of Sokuzan's teachings and 3.5 minutes of Q&A time.
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Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche talked about working with the negativity that arises in your mindstream as making friends with your ego. This is the area that we judge, that’s embarrassing, that we want to …
Specifically edited for listeners who have only ten minutes to listen. This abridged version of Sokuzan's full talk contains five minutes of Sokuzan's teachings and five minutes of Q&A time.
Through the sitting practice of meditation, you can retrain your mind to observe what’s arising rather than what you think is there. The idea is to see clearly and deeply what is arising so you know …
What is the observer that can’t be seen as content? That aspect of consciousness which is just receiving and processing does not have a spacial dimension or a time reference. It doesn’t have an ident…
This is something I often say when someone runs into difficulty. It’s not an order, it’s something to consider. True devotion is not about obedience. If someone is trying to get control of you, red …
Constant chattering fills up the space with phrases, protecting the body-mind complex we think we are. Even if the conclusions are relatively correct, it’s still a disturbance as far as the spiritual…
It’s not what you know that’s the issue; it’s the knower, the mistaken identity that’s the problem. Whatever shows up in your mind stream, you know that. The first arising is free from a knower. Then…
Your basic instruction is to sit down, hold still without being rigid, and intend to see what’s moving. If it’s a daydream, then observe that. There’s nothing to correct. Whatever arises, that’s the …
How does renaming what we call negativity help us to work with that in a different way? How do we not fight with what’s arising? If we are functioning out of the bodhisattva vow, what do we do? Can n…
We are always trying to protect, extend, and defend ourselves, or do something about me me me and my wonderful stuff. When you are being accused of something and fear getting pulled into others’ proj…
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Tue 24 Aug 2021
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