https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYhqwN4tFpA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA3innwpkCs

How can we communicate in the midst of our preconceptions? We laminate or comment on the very thing we are trying to investigate. Don’t interpret just because you can. Acknowledge you don’t know and make receiving the priority. Be with all things; listen to everyone. Then if you need to respond, you will do that out of what arises in your awareness minus your interpretation of it.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2F5JDcDIrw

Radical is from a latin word meaning root. Going to the foundation, the substrate, or root is what shikantaza is. There is no mundane sense of progress particularly. If the thinking process shows up as some kind of result, you have work to do. Just receiving and not being too concerned about how you feel about it is the radical meditation of shikantaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJgO7oaRlKM

Does all apparent negativity come from ourselves? Suffering, dissatisfaction, and anxiety; recurring negativity and thought patterns. The momentum needs to be seen closely before it actually gets a foothold. Praise and blame are extra, and are all about getting control. Watch what comes until you see the disturbance.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1FCjhpatXI

That aspect of causality that’s ignored because we want a result is the deeper cause and effect which goes beyond the physical form, beyond the illusion of the three dimensions. What is this human experience? Don’t jump to conclusions; the main issue is mistaken identity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWnPPV5oNY

What underlies the stories we get hooked by? What is the difference between observing and noticing or observing and receiving? What does it mean that the wall is the buddha, the dharma and the sangha? These and other questions from sangha elicit profound and unexpected responses from Sokuzan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa1m_qAoUFI

Sokuzan chats with New York comedian, Ethan Herschenfeld, on a variety of topics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDKE5vPp9GE

https://www.ethanherschenfeld.com

@eherschenfeld