“It’s ordinary” is pointing to the nature of mind. Even to say this is too much. There may be flashes of it, but then the ego mind wants to treat this profound insight in such a way that it hangs onto it. There’s a big difference between thinking it’s ordinary and seeing it’s ordinary.

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

Sokuzan focuses on three of the Twelve Links (Nidanas) on the chain of existence to support looking closely at what arises and see how we jump from feelings and emotions to craving and grasping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58CxNWfRKyk

Parikalpita, one of the three ways of being described in the Yogacara, is a Sanskrit word that means the “imaginary nature”. It is part of a simple teaching, broken into concepts so that we can better approach the way we confuse ourselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXPCg1bBHWY

Just because an opening or blank spot comes up doesn’t mean you need to fill it up with ideas or conversation or commentary or analysis. Leave it blank. Actually, be blank. Don’t know anything. If you leave it blank you are actually leading your life with awareness that is empty of self, empty of other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObebhFVSz3M&t=2076s

Sitting meditation is like “backing up”. You’re kind of backing up out of your everyday life of activity and you’re sitting down and starting again. Suzuki Roshi called it beginner’s mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFvydu5yOp8

In endeavoring to make no response the there is a way of responding that is more sane, harmonious and cooperative, where there’s communication that is not “me first!”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT0_3huA2UM

See more deeply into the way we keep covering up the basic openness, the natural clarity that we are born with…with ideas, descriptions, thoughts, examinations, elaborations and conclusions. This tends to polish what’s being referred to as delusion. What does it mean to be deluded? To not see the confusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LCggp6EiVI

Personal forms need to be up to you. See what your life is. You may need forms to do that or you may not. The very simplest form as far as meditation practice would be to sit down, hold still with all the senses open and don’t add, and begin to deepen that part of consciousness that is the space in which things occur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FDneQEwt1Y&t=3s

Just observe whatever is coming at you in any of the sense fields. Just receive it. It’s not that you can’t add a little bit on. If a car is driving up fast behind you, you may say “that car might hit me!” You’re not so totally into awareness that you don’t see the oncoming disaster. When you just observe, what you don’t do is you don’t create disasters out of ordinary things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9pzQkiiguw&t=2s

The encouragement is to just observe, which is difficult to do in our everyday lives where things are moving around. I’m not saying just observe by stopping anything. Whatever arises, see of you can get to the inclusion of it before you laminate it with your thought patterns, your judgements, your ideas, your evaluations. If you are doing this correctly you won’t know you are doing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxOtvLu6P8&t=1s