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

Sokuzan talks about the first of the Four Reminders that turn the mind toward the Dharma (or The Truth): "First contemplate the preciousness of being free and well favored, difficult to gain and easy to loose, now I must do something meaningful."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVq-llCDsA

Sokuzan talks about the first of the Four Reminders that turn the mind toward the Dharma (or The Truth): "First contemplate the preciousness of being free and well favored, difficult to gain and easy to loose, now I must do something meaningful."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVq-llCDsA

Sokuzan begins with the second of the Four Reminders that turn the mind toward the Dharma to talk about the Buddha’s teachings on impermanence: “Second, the world and its inhabitants are impermanent; in particular, the life of beings is like a bubble. Death comes without warning. This body will be a corpse. At that time the Dharma (Truth) will be my only help, I must practice with exertion.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-S_Nxm1tXs

Sokuzan begins with the second of the Four Reminders that turn the mind toward the Dharma to talk about the Buddha’s teachings on impermanence: “Second, the world and its inhabitants are impermanent; in particular, the life of beings is like a bubble. Death comes without warning. This body will be a corpse. At that time the Dharma (Truth) will be my only help, I must practice with exertion.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-S_Nxm1tXs

Set aside time for retreat practice. It could be a short block of time like four hours or for multiple days. It could be solitary or with a group. Whatever your meditation practice is, it is important to retreat from your everyday busy world and take some time to look at your mind. Receive whatever arises…and don’t evaluate. Whatever you can do, schedule it ahead of time and just do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSKCTCv4YWA

Set aside time for retreat practice. It could be a short block of time like four hours or for multiple days. It could be solitary or with a group. Whatever your meditation practice is, it is important to retreat from your everyday busy world and take some time to look at your mind. Receive whatever arises…and don’t evaluate. Whatever you can do, schedule it ahead of time and just do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSKCTCv4YWA

Set aside time for retreat practice. It could be a short block of time like four hours or for multiple days. It could be solitary or with a group. Whatever your meditation practice is, it is important to retreat from your everyday busy world and take some time to look at your mind. Receive whatever arises…and don’t evaluate. Whatever you can do, schedule it ahead of time and just do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSKCTCv4YWA

Sokuzan reads from Dogen’s essay “Turning the Dharma Wheel”: “When one person opens up reality and returns to the source, space in the ten directions also opens up reality and returns to the source.” Sokuzan teaches that opening up reality and returning to the source means finding a way to step outside temporarily into the space of being able to receive what is coming at you in the practice of meditation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-ZbqJwOO0

Sokuzan reads from Dogen’s essay “Turning the Dharma Wheel”: “When one person opens up reality and returns to the source, space in the ten directions also opens up reality and returns to the source.” Sokuzan teaches that opening up reality and returning to the source means finding a way to step outside temporarily into the space of being able to receive what is coming at you in the practice of meditation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-ZbqJwOO0