SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery episodes:

• 04.21.2024

  Don't Step Out - 04-21-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/N4UPmw4plZk

  
• 04.19.2024

  2024.04.19 BBT The Six Paramitas - Meditation

  https://youtu.be/7r8bi_CmVeE

  
• 04.17.2024

  Don't Assign Value - 04-17-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/_UNoDgeRB5I

  
• 04.14.2024

  Don't Waste Your Time -04-14-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/mB8tqc_K3xo

  
• 04.11.2024

  The Six Paramitas - Exertion - 04-12-24 with Chiezan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/CRwXazx3s8Y

  
• 04.10.2024

  Where Thoughts Arise - 04-10-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/v3OKQKAr6Jw

  
• 04.07.2024

  No Attainment - 04-107-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/9KESGDMo7w4

  
• 04.05.2024

  The Six Paramitas - Patience - 04-05-24- Basic Buddhist teachings with Chiezan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/d4jiZHX_bWo

  
• 04.02.2024

  Prajna Is Without Knowing - 04-03-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  Prajna is sometimes called mirror-like; it’s reflecting back the mystery of the whole thing. You can’t know what this is. Everything that’s showing up in your life is unreal. You can continue to look at everything and just receive it. https://youtu.be/DAKI8feFhxk

  
• 04.01.2024

  The Bodhisattva Path - 3-22-24 - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - sokukoji.org

  The inspiration of the bodhisattva path is at the core of our practice. Chiezan talks about ground, path and fruition, and the first paramita of generosity. We are beginning to transition from a poverty mentality to a mentality of abundance. https://youtu.be/0B2jCWLKpKc?si=QWFHuwB75Ci4vcWP

  
• 03.30.2024

  Trap Of Believing - 03-31-24 with Chiezan - sokukoji.org

  We are conditioned to make assumptions. We live in a consensus reality. The Buddhist path encourages us to begin to look beyond the reasonable aspects of our phenomenal world, to see non-duality, beyond the fear of groundlessness or spaciousness. https://youtu.be/wXCl9ZbA0Fc

  
• 03.27.2024

  Invisible Pride - 03-27-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/T5EfdwVKTEE

  
• 03.21.2024

  Response And Reaction - 03-24-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  Be responsible for your mind stream without adding your personal condiments to everything. Grasping comes out of desire, which stops the awareness, the wisdom mind. The response is just to include and observe the desire. There is no formula or...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Don't Buy In - 03-17-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  This is a way of looking at not attaching to what arises. Don’t buy in, but also don’t dismiss or reject it. Don’t take any position on anything. This is very difficult to do. Have some consideration for the energy...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Can't Fix It - 03-13-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  The fundamental issue is the suffering, anxiety and difficulty we run into, sometimes with no apparent cause. We are trying to squeeze some happiness out of samsara. You can’t fix it. This is the illusion you need to see. If...

  
• 03.10.2024

  Action Not Reaction - 03-10-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/hFsLWvYa-bo

  
• 03.04.2024

  Don't Let Go - 03-06-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  Pre-order Sokuzan's newest book, Sixty Second Sokuzan: 52 one-minute Zen Buddhist teachings HERE: https://www.sokukoji.org/product-page/sixty-second-sokuzan Video-link of this talk: https://youtu.be/y_G5Bnewd6c

  
• 03.01.2024

  Captive Of Our Conclusions - 03-03-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  We tend to believe what shows up in our minds; it feels safer and more comfortable. The teaching here is that it’s an illusion. Just believing that this is an illusion doesn’t mean that it won’t continue to delude you....

  
• 02.29.2024

  Being A Student On The Buddhist Path - 3/1/24 with Chiezan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/c_CLjo_LB1o

  
• 02.25.2024

  Secret Beyond Thought - 02-25-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/NayGP3EIm8s

  
• 02.18.2024

  No Location - 02-18-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/nv_mOJgqSLk

  
• 02.10.2024

  Ways Of Knowing - 02-11-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/le_DOmAOGAA

  
• 02.03.2024

  Illusion Listens To Illusion - 02-04-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/sdhy91flxSQ

  
• 01.31.2024

  You Are The Seer - 01-31-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/dNrbbJaN4XI

  
• 01.27.2024

  What's Being Covered Up? - 01-28-24 with Sokuzan - Sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/kdk1uBpma6c

  
• 01.25.2024

  The Third & Fourth Reminders - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - 01-26-24

  https://youtu.be/6iDljPcOHjw

  
• 01.24.2024

  Crazy Memory - 01-24-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/bHtuD_wOOTo

  
• 01.21.2024

  Recognizing The Help - 01-21-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/HcRAn1ykQ8k

  
• 01.18.2024

  The Second Reminder - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - 01-19-24 - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/n39BN8-hryQ

  
• 01.16.2024

  Without And Within - 01-17-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/RGhB3ecW7kk

  
• 01.16.2024

  Without And Within - 01-17-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  Instead of trying to do things out in the world, go within. Slow down, sit still, and watch the continued, very subtle movement in your mind stream. Everything is dependently arisen. https://youtu.be/GY_RGOZW3hs

  
• 01.13.2024

  Not Knowing Is Most Intimate - 01-14-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  This talk title is a line from a classical text in Soto Zen literature: verse 20 in the Book of Serenity. You don’t have to know anything, but you have to study and receive everything. Stop responding out of some...

  
• 01.11.2024

  The First Reminder - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - 01-12-24 - sokukoji.org

  Part of a series of talks, this is the first of the four reminders that return our minds to the dharma. First contemplate the preciousness of being free and well favored: our precious human birth. https://youtu.be/bS-I4YKTWGg

  
• 01.09.2024

  The Confusion Is The Awakening - 01-10-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  Look at the confusion without stories about how to fix it. You have no control - that’s the illusion we are buying in to. https://youtu.be/ge8O5KtNb4U

  
• 01.06.2024

  Mountains & Rivers 1 - 01-07-24 with Chiezan - sokukoji.org

  Chiezan answers students’ questions about meditation and practice in this Q and A format. https://youtu.be/LKihlG3Im60

  
• 01.05.2024

  The Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma - Basic Buddhist Teachings - 01-05-23 - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/dx6SF9YCLhA

  
• 01.02.2024

  Dana Paramita - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - 12-29-23 - sokukoji.org

  In Buddhism there are six or sometimes ten paramitas (perfections). The first paramita is dana, or the traditional gesture of giving, particularly to the monastic community through alms and material goods. What makes it a little different from a more...

  
• 01.01.2024

  Fearlessness - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - 01-03-23 - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/-wN3iNYbNM0

  
• 12.30.2023

  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. Just return....

  
• 12.26.2023

  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 attachment, not some kind of a...

  
• 12.23.2023

  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 this apparent singularity that doesn’t last. https://youtu.be/CjTvfQuY0Vo

  
• 12.19.2023

  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

  
• 12.16.2023

  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, just receive whatever shows up. https://youtu.be/Qr9L5lRMWmw

  
• 12.12.2023

  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 practice and meditation. https://youtu.be/iApaJciDuwM

  
• 12.09.2023

  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

  
• 12.03.2023

  Beyond Understanding - 12-03-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

  https://youtu.be/hpm34zAUBCY

  
• 11.28.2023

  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 including, in particular the five...

  
• 11.25.2023

  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. Thought is trapped by thought. https://youtu.be/G3ruIm_Uqz0

  
• 11.18.2023

  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. Just try to be aware of...

  
• 11.14.2023

  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 receive it. It’s not about getting rid...