When observing that which seems to be wrong or off kilter, you may say, “This shouldn’t be happening,” or, “Why this is happening?” These comments actually cover up your reception; cover up your awar…
The 90/10 rule is to listen 90% of the time and talk 10%. Something you can do right away is to receive any spontaneously produced reaction you have to anything or anybody that shows up in your mind …
The conventional way we are living is very linear. We buy into anything that’s arising, coming and going, moving this way and that. The very simple and radical form of meditation practice called shik…
Ego gets its identity from different sources that tend to propel us along. Anytime you assert anything, look at the connection between that and that which is feeding off it. This is the self-centered…
First, it is your civic duty to vote to participate in your community and culture, even though you may feel unsupported by its form, structure and shortcomings. You are not on a mountaintop in ancie…
What is the deep activity of consciousness that looks for support from leaders or groups that strengthen our positionality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1trx05Z-lg&t=1s
Sokuzan talks about how he related to his teachers, the dharma and the sangha in the decades of his practice and how he encourages students to relate with the Three Jewels now in the SokukoJi communi…
Let’s start on the inside. Start with yourself. Is there any abusing going on? Any lying going on? Is there? Find out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FheeUYM39Jk&t=247s
“Samadhi” is pointing to the condition when he, she or they are not separate from anything. This will not necessarily register in one’s relative consciousness as, “Oh, I finally made it into samadhi!…
Anytime you come to any conclusion, whether it’s just causes and conditions that arise and you suddenly see something a certain way, or you see something and you cover it up with a conclusion, it tak…