https://youtu.be/RGhB3ecW7kk

This talk title is a line from a classical text in Soto Zen literature: verse 20 in the Book of Serenity. You don’t have to know anything, but you have to study and receive everything. Stop responding out of some kind of interpretation based on your conflicting emotions about the nature of reality.

https://youtu.be/UyazzC2VUIY

Part of a series of talks, this is the first of the four reminders that return our minds to the dharma. First contemplate the preciousness of being free and well favored: our precious human birth.

https://youtu.be/bS-I4YKTWGg

Look at the confusion without stories about how to fix it. You have no control - that’s the illusion we are buying in to.

https://youtu.be/ge8O5KtNb4U

Chiezan answers students’ questions about meditation and practice in this Q and A format.

https://youtu.be/LKihlG3Im60

https://youtu.be/dx6SF9YCLhA

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