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
The Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma - Basic Buddhist Teachings - 01-05-23 - sokukoji.org
https://youtu.be/dx6SF9YCLhA
00:49:27 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Return To The Intention To See The Truth - 12-31-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
You don’t have to be a Buddhist, but this is so important: you need to find the truth, to be aware, to donate your awareness to everything. You can’t maintain it. There’s no correct way to do this. J…
01:08:54 |
Sat 30 Dec 2023
Mountains & Rivers XXXIV - 12-27-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
In this Q & A format, a student asks, “What is the meaning of our precept of no attaching to fruition (fulfillment)?” Sokuzan answers, “See how you’re attached to outcomes. It’s about observing the a…
01:09:20 |
Tue 26 Dec 2023
Mountains & Rivers XXXIII - 12-24-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
These questions from students include, “What is the meaning of the sixteenth Karmapa’s teaching that nothing happens?” What appears to be happening is an illusion. There are many ways to talk about t…
01:18:06 |
Sat 23 Dec 2023
Mountains & Rivers XXXII - 12-20-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
Sokuzan answers more questions from sangha in this Q and A formatted talk:
What creates other? “Fear.” What creates fear? “Believing your thoughts and emotions.”
https://youtu.be/QW1TBBgx-nI
00:51:10 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Mountains & Rivers XXXI - 12-17-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
A student asks: “If we don’t do anything with what’s arising, does that mean we're not functioning out of what’s arising?” If you see what is actually happening, you won’t do much: no commentary, jus…
01:03:50 |
Sat 16 Dec 2023
Mountains & Rivers XXX - 12-13-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
If whatever shows up is what we need to see, does that include pushing away what’s showing up? What is the difference between meditation and sitting still? Sokuzan answers students questions about pr…
01:03:12 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Mountains & Rivers XXIX - 12/10/23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
Questions from sangha include how to keep going on the path, and, "What is perception without a self?" Consciousness masquerades as a self.
https://youtu.be/tlnizqfwkBU
01:10:21 |
Sat 09 Dec 2023
Beyond Understanding - 12-03-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
https://youtu.be/hpm34zAUBCY
00:58:12 |
Sun 03 Dec 2023
Don't Think About It - 11-29-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
You don’t have to stop your thoughts, but you do have to relate to them clearly and sanely. A teaching that might help you do that is alternating sense awareness practice (ASAP). This is about includ…
01:03:13 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
Projecting Confusion - 11-26-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
The projecting part is thinking things occur because of our interpretation of the situation. We conclude without really looking beyond our thoughts about it. Only awareness sees beyond thought. Thoug…
01:04:45 |
Sat 25 Nov 2023
Ego Algorithms - 11-19-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
These are opinions or structures we use to protect self-centeredness and to reify and reinforce that we are someone going somewhere and doing something, which is also ego. The impulse is to stop it. …
01:07:13 |
Sat 18 Nov 2023
Commenting On What Arises - 11-15-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
Something happens and instead of just receiving what that is, we comment on it: thinking, judging, concluding. Rarely do we receive something as it is, unless it’s so intense, we can’t help but recei…
01:01:42 |
Tue 14 Nov 2023
Knowing Beyond Thoughts - 11-12-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
A reading from the Majima Nikaya, the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, speaks about the bondage and shackles of of theorizing. The Buddha said, “It does not lead to nirvana; This is the danger…
00:57:05 |
Sat 11 Nov 2023
Empty Of Self Empty Of Other - 11-05-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
Empty of Other is a third turning teaching. The otherness is what confuses the self-centeredness and gives the illusion that you have some say so about things. That doesn’t mean there isn’t something…
01:04:59 |
Sat 04 Nov 2023
Just Observe - 11-02-23 by Sokzuan - sokukoji.org
It’s very important to just observe. We never can look at what something actually is. We add on things; what that is and, and almost imperceptibly, the person who is looking at it. We create an indiv…
01:01:31 |
Tue 31 Oct 2023
Therapy And Meditation - 10-29-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
A subject that comes up with students that there is often misunderstanding about is therapy, and how it relates to meditation. There are many ways to get into the structure of the way in which you’re…
01:19:49 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Confusion Is Not Confused - 10-25-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
Observe the Confusion. If you try to fix it, change it or cover it up, you’ll miss what it actually is because you’re running away from what you think it is. It is not separate from you and also not …
01:11:26 |
Mon 23 Oct 2023
When Concepts Rule - 10-22-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
Concepts rule when you grasp onto your thoughts and ideas and the emotional dynamics that are reinforced by that structure. Just watch the movement that arises around any particular story.
https://yo…
01:04:26 |
Sat 21 Oct 2023
Why Meditate? - 10-18-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
I’m not trying to convert you to Buddhism. You can just meditate without doing that. If you don’t meditate, you are at the mercy of your passion, aggression, and ignorance, your self deception. If yo…
01:00:05 |
Tue 17 Oct 2023
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