Sokuzan talks about how he related to his teachers, the dharma and the sangha in the decades of his practice and how he encourages students to relate with the Three Jewels now in the SokukoJi community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6NobqMGG0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOES8s3L9I&t=1s

Let’s start on the inside. Start with yourself. Is there any abusing going on? Any lying going on? Is there? Find out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FheeUYM39Jk&t=247s

“Samadhi” is pointing to the condition when he, she or they are not separate from anything. This will not necessarily register in one’s relative consciousness as, “Oh, I finally made it into samadhi!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS5BwRlNFP8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn4oZOILtII

There are very small layers and aspects that make up the apparent “me."

”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkDecf6UN2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQB_8KTzhU

Anytime you come to any conclusion, whether it’s just causes and conditions that arise and you suddenly see something a certain way, or you see something and you cover it up with a conclusion, it takes a lot if awareness training to see the difference between those. This is the beginning of discriminating awareness wisdom. It’s not about picking and choosing. It’s about seeing the fundamental difference between the clarity of the mind and the continuous pile of rubble that is created by the self-centered grasping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIm08-eduvk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNKkCR3tJWU

Something arises and we abandon that. We abstract ourselves away into what it is about and what it means. We tend to analyze our life and our state of mind based on conceptualizing. It may have relative accuracy, but when it starts to take priority, it reinforces the attachment we have to who we think we are. Sokuzan refers to Dogen Zenji's teaching ”Drop off body and mind” to explore the area that is not deceptive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzca1L79TCQ