See more deeply into the way we keep covering up the basic openness, the natural clarity that we are born with…with ideas, descriptions, thoughts, examinations, elaborations and conclusions. This ten…
Personal forms need to be up to you. See what your life is. You may need forms to do that or you may not. The very simplest form as far as meditation practice would be to sit down, hold still with al…
The process of a living being involves a labyrinth of uncountable branching streams flowing through the darkness, but we want to find a cause for our particular problem. So what can we know?
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There is the more subjective form of fixation where we have an emotion, feeling, hope or fear that comes up and won’t go away and we try to do something with it. Then there’s the other kind of fixat…
Karma is the Sanskrit word that means “action”. There are lots of interpretations of it. Here, Sokuzan teaches about karmas 1 & 2: receptional karma, or what happens to you, and intentional karma, …
Sokuzan talks about The Three Turnings of the Buddha’s teachings, sometimes described as the provisional teachings, the emptiness teachings and the teachings on Buddha nature.
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We get snagged, almost invisibly, by a repetition that is about ignorance. We get snagged by thinking, assuming, imputing, that we’re very clear about something when actually we’re looking exactly a…