Sokuzan suggests to “listen, respond, and limit” when talking with family. Listening is the practice of generosity in receiving what is being said and giving your attention. Respond in order to be with them, respecting their karma. Limit your interaction so that when you’re there, you are present with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3iOnxBePK4

Put self-centeredness on a diet by staying in your senses; just hear, just see, just smell, just taste, just feel, and even just think and add nothing to it so that what you receive does not become food for your self-centeredness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsAJkbFvy00

Put self-centeredness on a diet by staying in your senses; just hear, just see, just smell, just taste, just feel, and even just think and add nothing to it so that what you receive does not become food for your self-centeredness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsAJkbFvy00

Confidence based on causes and conditions will fade. Complete confidence is both confidence and lack of confidence at the same time where thoughts and emotions are free to come and go. Prioritize awareness. Hold your seat and make friends with what comes and goes through the practice of meditation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0chaQcMmE7g

Confidence based on causes and conditions will fade. Complete confidence is both confidence and lack of confidence at the same time where thoughts and emotions are free to come and go. Prioritize awareness. Hold your seat and make friends with what comes and goes through the practice of meditation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0chaQcMmE7g

Sokuzan talks about a traditional text of the Yogacara tradition called “The Thirty Verses” (Trimsika-karika) by Vasubandhu, a prominent fourth century Indian Buddhist and a powerful teacher. He reads examples of several different translations and talks about the importance of taking the time to investigate the root texts of Buddhism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ilQnEYreXA

Sokuzan talks about a traditional text of the Yogacara tradition called “The Thirty Verses” (Trimsika-karika) by Vasubandhu, a prominent fourth century Indian Buddhist and a powerful teacher. He reads examples of several different translations and talks about the importance of taking the time to investigate the root texts of Buddhism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ilQnEYreXA

When we lock down on opinions to create security for self-centeredness, it’s like a fog. It clouds your mind and stops you from looking any deeper into what it is that you have opinions about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZLS9vjuvM

When we lock down on opinions to create security for self-centeredness, it’s like a fog. It clouds your mind and stops you from looking any deeper into what it is that you have opinions about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZLS9vjuvM

Sokuzan talks about karma using the teachings of the third of "The Four Reminders" that turn the mind toward the Dharma: "When death comes I will be helpless. Because I create karma I mist abandon harmful deeds and always devote my time to virtuous actions. Thinking this every day I will examine myself."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO6Q8pwMHoE