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Secret Beyond Thought - 02-25-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - February 25, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
https://youtu.be/NayGP3EIm8s

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No Location - 02-18-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - February 18, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
https://youtu.be/nv_mOJgqSLk

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Ways Of Knowing - 02-11-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - February 10, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
https://youtu.be/le_DOmAOGAA





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Crazy Memory - 01-24-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - January 24, 2024 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
https://youtu.be/bHtuD_wOOTo



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Without And Within - 01-17-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - January 16, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Instead of trying to do things out in the world, go within. Slow down, sit still, and watch the continued, very subtle movement in your mind stream. Everything is dependently arisen. https://youtu.be/GY_RGOZW3hs

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Not Knowing Is Most Intimate - 01-14-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - January 13, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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 realit...

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The First Reminder - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - 01-12-24 - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - January 11, 2024 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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The Confusion Is The Awakening - 01-10-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - January 09, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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


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Mountains & Rivers 1 - 01-07-24 with Chiezan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - January 06, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Chiezan answers students’ questions about meditation and practice in this Q and A format. https://youtu.be/LKihlG3Im60


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Dana Paramita - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - 12-29-23 - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - January 02, 2024 00:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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 tra...


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Return To The Intention To See The Truth - 12-31-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - December 30, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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Mountains & Rivers XXXIV - 12-27-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - December 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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Mountains & Rivers XXXIII - 12-24-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - December 23, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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Mountains & Rivers XXXII - 12-20-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - December 19, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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Mountains & Rivers XXXI - 12-17-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - December 16, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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Mountains & Rivers XXX - 12-13-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - December 12, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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Mountains & Rivers XXIX - 12/10/23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - December 09, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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Beyond Understanding - 12-03-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - December 03, 2023 00:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
https://youtu.be/hpm34zAUBCY

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Don't Think About It - 11-29-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - November 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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://y...

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Projecting Confusion - 11-26-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - November 25, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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

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Ego Algorithms - 11-19-23 by Sokuzan - sokukoji.org

SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery - November 18, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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/qhw3tZ...