SokukoJi Buddhist Temple Monastery

Just watch the rotation that is trying to seduce you into into some kind of thought pattern of passion, aggression or ignorance. That which is observing does nothing. https://youtu.be/JjOw-DWx4_w

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Choosing keeps the delusion going. By choosing, we hide out and we create an artificial situation that looks like we have some control. We do not. https://youtu.be/aftv6Djpswk

Most of the world is operating out of delusion. Something shows up and immediately we project onto it; what that is, how it should be. We are constantly correcting. Most of the world has no spiritual path. It is is not about feeling better and not about results. https://youtu.be/mk8XUbyXa1s

Let’s start with the basics; be grateful for gravity. Receive the ordinary magic of everything. Be grateful for your life, that you can breathe, that you have a mind stream, that you have the 6 sense fields and their objects, and that you can receive. https://youtu.be/6KKTV7hhvVA

The intention is to help you get an idea of the circles your mind has been going in since you were born. It’s called samsara: everything is going in circles. Habitual patterns keep us doing this. It can slow down or disappear, but only through awareness, as far as I know. https://youtu.be/67PfUw7d1Vg

You actually receive most of your thoughts, you don’t produce them. Why? Because there isn’t anyone; there’s no solid you. What you’re looking at you cover up with your projections. The truth is painful; as the buddha said, life is suffering. https://youtu.be/XV1VCqd-e48

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How do we put others before ourselves in the midst of our negativity? Look at the way you can’t quite do that, even though you’ve received this vow. Don’t fix anything. If you practice and practice and practice, eventually you will see reality. https://youtu.be/xkWi-7wT0i4

Meet everything where it’s at, starting with what’s arising in your own mind stream. Don’t add to it, don’t subtract it, don’t judge it and don’t blame somebody for it. The emotion is yours. Be responsible for your feelings. https://youtu.be/x4U_a7VIv5s

Whatever shows up, don’t shift it to something else. Be responsible for anything that arises in your mind stream. The ability to respond means that you will consider everything that’s in your milieu to see what this is fundamentally. https://youtu.be/AqPVTWzfar4

We quite often hear about of empty of self, that there is no one here. It’s also empty of other. Another way of addressing this is non-duality, or advaita. There is nothing observed and there is no one observing. Bluntly stated, it is the illusion of consciousness showing up as this or that individual. There’s just observing, or consciousness only. https://youtu.be/C29LvAWWcd0

I’m looking at confusion all the time. My teachers have helped me see that you don’t have to get rid of anything. It will not particularly be comfortable, and it doesn’t mean you don’t feel the confusion and distress, because consciousness always finds whatever form that it needs. Look at the leading edge of everything. https://youtu.be/8YNRI6WJFng

Suddenly something just starts to get hold of us and draws our attention away from what we were intending to do. Just feel it, receive it, be it, and don’t accept it, reject it or ignore it; that’s the path. Just keep returning and observing. When the emotions get stirred up, just receive that. https://youtu.be/lFiT4mbcTTI

There’s a natural boundary between any two things. There are the boundaries we set up to protect our property, and boundaries based on fear. It is about being aware of them, not about believing, judging or concluding. This is why we sit down and gaze at the wall, to see the delusions that are the walls of the mind. https://youtu.be/Qx7KND0tv_M

It’s hard to come up with a standard that will fit each person - it can be situational. The standard is the discipline, the structure. It’s very definite, and it’s very necessary to have strong forms. Once you decide to conform to this discipline, then it’s necessary to use the forms that are showing up. https://youtu.be/s__d-8Spf58

We constantly tell ourselves stories about what we should and shouldn’t do. The motivation is the ego trying to protect itself. We don’t want anybody, including ourselves, to see who we are. It’s about getting caught in the story trap, not trying to correct it. See the way you do this. https://youtu.be/qM52lZynx08

The first wake up is to see how you are being controlled by everything; your beliefs, your culture, your ideas. The second wake up is to the possibly of seeing who you really are and what all this is. https://youtu.be/TDNg86mcpa4

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