No Demand - 06-30-21 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org

Don’t demand anything, especially if you think you have a right to do so. In order to not demand, you might have to allow the feeling, the emotion, the energy to arise without hooking up your vocal cords. It seems to be very necessary to experience and accommodate the emotions that arise in the mind stream. The emotion is not the demand. It’s what we do to get away from the emotion. The way to work with it is to catch the negative emotion as soon as possible and meet it right there. If you can’t see it clearly, that’s how it’s loosened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM4R4zi3tIE