Sokuzan teaches from a line in Genjokoan from Dogen’s Shobogenzo: “When buddhas are truly buddhas they don’t need to perceive that they are buddhas, however, they are enlightened buddhas and they continue actualizing buddhas.” (translation by Shokaku Okumura)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaB2JLk1mDo

Sokuzan teaches from a line in Genjokoan from Dogen’s Shobogenzo: “When buddhas are truly buddhas they don’t need to perceive that they are buddhas, however, they are enlightened buddhas and they continue actualizing buddhas.” (translation by Shokaku Okumura)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaB2JLk1mDo

A teacher may help a student access deeper levels of consciousness by facilitating regression to another time and place. Exploring in this way, without believing, disbelieving, or shutting down on whatever arises in mind can be a way to work with intense difficulty and ease suffering. Here Sokuzan gives an example of working with deeper consciousness during a meditation interview.

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

A teacher may help a student access deeper levels of consciousness by facilitating regression to another time and place. Exploring in this way, without believing, disbelieving, or shutting down on whatever arises in mind can be a way to work with intense difficulty and ease suffering. Here Sokuzan gives an example of working with deeper consciousness during a meditation interview.

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

A teacher may help a student access deeper levels of consciousness by facilitating regression to another time and place. Exploring in this way, without believing, disbelieving, or shutting down on whatever arises in mind can be a way to work with intense difficulty and ease suffering. Here Sokuzan gives an example of working with deeper consciousness during a meditation interview.

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

When you use a smart phone or an app in your meditation, look closely at your intention. Are you trying to feel good or are you trying to find out what is fundamentally true? The companies that are trying to sell you something will find out what makes you feel good and market that. If you have an app that tells you how you are doing or measures your progress, it robs you of your own intelligence, covering up what you may need to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzCwvaRXz4I

When you use a smart phone or an app in your meditation, look closely at your intention. Are you trying to feel good or are you trying to find out what is fundamentally true? The companies that are trying to sell you something will find out what makes you feel good and market that. If you have an app that tells you how you are doing or measures your progress, it robs you of your own intelligence, covering up what you may need to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzCwvaRXz4I

When you use a smart phone or an app in your meditation, look closely at your intention. Are you trying to feel good or are you trying to find out what is fundamentally true? The companies that are trying to sell you something will find out what makes you feel good and market that. If you have an app that tells you how you are doing or measures your progress, it robs you of your own intelligence, covering up what you may need to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzCwvaRXz4I

When it is very painful to observe what appears to be going on in the world, how can we become aware of abandoning the situation by going unconscious and ignoring suffering? Why keep watching the news if it seems to solidify the pattern of feeling helpless? What should we do when we resonate with call to action in our own backyard, like the Million Woman March?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNVQX6iUsYY

When it is very painful to observe what appears to be going on in the world, how can we become aware of abandoning the situation by going unconscious and ignoring suffering? Why keep watching the news if it seems to solidify the pattern of feeling helpless? What should we do when we resonate with call to action in our own backyard, like the Million Woman March?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNVQX6iUsYY