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
Why Monks Beg - 08-22-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7VP41IdYhU
01:10:59 |
Sun 22 Aug 2021
Mountains and Rivers 12 - 08-18-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gaTyNXWQjc&t
00:55:46 |
Tue 17 Aug 2021
Mind Your Own Business - 08-15-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
Minding your own business doesn’t mean you shouldn’t step in and help when you see something terrible happening, but do it situationally. Don’t do anything unless you have to. It doesn’t mean that yo…
01:03:06 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
Creating Real Estate - 08-11-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
The ego, or what I might call the land baron, is the one who has territory, owns things, and puts things there in the mind stream or even the life stream if they have a chance. When something arises …
01:06:14 |
Sun 08 Aug 2021
Communication In The Three Jewels - 08-08-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62A6MWCU6qo
01:18:33 |
Thu 05 Aug 2021
Full Intention - 08-04-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
Full intention here means not spending time looking for results. The spiritual path is not about results, or using the structure of the mundane path to evaluate your progress. It doesn’t mean you won…
01:02:34 |
Mon 02 Aug 2021
You Can Rationalize Anything - 08-01-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
Rationalizing is abandoning what’s in front of us for why it makes sense or doesn’t work. It is caused by suffering and pain, by being mistreated or the perception that you’re being mistreated. From …
01:00:51 |
Fri 30 Jul 2021
Receiving The Teacher's Heat - 07-28-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche once said, “If you get too far away from the teacher you don’t get enough heat, and if you get too close to the teacher you get burned.” Just because you have the illusion th…
01:03:01 |
Mon 26 Jul 2021
More Questions About Devotion - 07-25-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZtw9UEdCSQ
01:42:42 |
Sat 24 Jul 2021
The Rationalizer - 07-21-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
We tend to rationalize anything we don’t understand. We don’t want to look at the fundamental situation. Anytime you jump to some sort of idea about what’s happening, you abandon what’s right in fron…
00:51:29 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
Meditation is a Lie Detector - 07-18-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trMQQyFRLjk&t
01:08:54 |
Sat 17 Jul 2021
Questions On Emptiness - 07-14-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
That things are empty is an ultimate teaching and is also a path quality of Buddha-dharma. The Sanskrit word is shunyata. It’s not a relative emptiness, but that doesn’t mean it abandons relativity. …
00:51:12 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
Questions On Devotion - 07-11-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DP-AeXHjfQ
01:25:54 |
Sat 10 Jul 2021
Embarrassment - 07-07-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QS2i0UTSiU
01:11:25 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
Seeing The Skandhas - 07-04-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
The five skandhas, or “heaps” are an ancient teaching. Simply put, form is the body and the other four are aspects of consciousness: feeling, perception, memory (or concept), and consciousness. Feeli…
01:14:20 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
No Demand - 06-30-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
Don’t demand anything, especially if you think you have a right to do so. In order to not demand, you might have to allow the feeling, the emotion, the energy to arise without hooking up your vocal c…
01:01:23 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Petty Speech - 06-27-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4WgMguVaJg
01:05:07 |
Sun 27 Jun 2021
Enemy Number One - 06-23-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
The hidden aspect of consciousness that does not want to be discovered is called the ego, or narcissism. It’s the self that has no particular credentials except the ones it can forge. The self center…
01:10:22 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Where Is The Jealousy? - 06-20-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNlLzbaDUY
01:15:48 |
Sun 20 Jun 2021
Motivation - 06-16-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org
We try to find ways to get things done that we want to accomplish. In our situation it’s the motivation to do the sitting practice of meditation as it’s taught here, called shikantaza. This is probab…
01:12:02 |
Tue 15 Jun 2021
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