Sokuzan answers questions from the SokukoJi-Traverse City sangha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI-D-JIZ9P8

Sokuzan answers questions from the SokukoJi-Traverse City sangha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI-D-JIZ9P8

Sokuzan answers questions from the SokukoJi-Traverse City sangha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9I_hfOQLI

Sokuzan answers questions from the SokukoJi-Traverse City sangha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9I_hfOQLI

Before you start going out accusing, crediting and blaming, first clarify inward. If you don’t, you’ll mistake your own unclarified confusion: passion aggression and ignorance for what you’re seeing “out there”. When I say clarify, I don’t mean get rid of. I mean see your confusion. Find out who you are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUoQSYPDh4M

Before you start going out accusing, crediting and blaming, first clarify inward. If you don’t, you’ll mistake your own unclarified confusion: passion aggression and ignorance for what you’re seeing “out there”. When I say clarify, I don’t mean get rid of. I mean see your confusion. Find out who you are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUoQSYPDh4M

Redundant negativity Is like getting mad at being mad. It is thinking there is something to do about negativity when it arises so we justify it, or push it down or ignore it. This tends to just add to the suffering. Practice holding still and observe the original negativity without adding anything to it. Let it do what it needs to do.

Redundant negativity Is like getting mad at being mad. It is thinking there is something to do about negativity when it arises so we justify it, or push it down or ignore it. This tends to just add to the suffering. Practice holding still and observe the original negativity without adding anything to it. Let it do what it needs to do.

Redundant negativity Is like getting mad at being mad. It is thinking there is something to do about negativity when it arises so we justify it, or push it down or ignore it. This tends to just add to the suffering. Practice holding still and observe the original negativity without adding anything to it. Let it do what it needs to do.

Exertion or trying as it is described in the paramitas (“virya” in the Sanskrit) is exertion for the benefit of others. But what gets in the way, especially if you don’t have a regular meditation practice, is that we try to think our way into success by chattering to ourselves about what we should and shouldn’t do. We try to cram ourselves into things when there are too many other things that haven’t been examined. As soon as you take your inventory, don’t do it. How do you “don’t do it”? By seeing how you do it. It takes a strong awareness practice, strengthening the witness part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TqPCK1rQm4