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

You don’t have to stop your thoughts, but you do have to relate to them clearly and sanely. A teaching that might help you do that is alternating sense awareness practice (ASAP). This is about including, in particular the five sense fields of touch, sight, hearing, smelling and tasting.

https://youtu.be/qEF6622JtCU

The projecting part is thinking things occur because of our interpretation of the situation. We conclude without really looking beyond our thoughts about it. Only awareness sees beyond thought. Thought is trapped by thought.

https://youtu.be/G3ruIm_Uqz0

These are opinions or structures we use to protect self-centeredness and to reify and reinforce that we are someone going somewhere and doing something, which is also ego. The impulse is to stop it. Just try to be aware of what’s happening rather than trying to control it.

https://youtu.be/qhw3tZVIa1k

Something happens and instead of just receiving what that is, we comment on it: thinking, judging, concluding. Rarely do we receive something as it is, unless it’s so intense, we can’t help but receive it. It’s not about getting rid of anything; it’s about awareness.

https://youtu.be/vc8g21FbGjI