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 traditional generosity is there is nothing transactional about it. One gives freely without expecting anything in return.

https://youtu.be/YrFxlBt-FEc

https://youtu.be/-wN3iNYbNM0

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. Awareness doesn’t go anywhere.

https://youtu.be/0B7p83GHdh0

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 standard that you have not live up to.”

https://youtu.be/er7-o6RCWgg

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

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

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

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

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

https://youtu.be/hpm34zAUBCY