The Mind's Filter - Chozen, Roshi

About this episode

Chozen Roshi discusses the Four Immeasurables and their impact on perception and relationships.

This talk explores the Four Immeasurables—loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—as practical trainings for transforming how we relate to ourselves and others. Through traditional Buddhist framing, Chozen Roshi highlights the near and far enemies of each quality and how subtle distortions like pity, indifference, or conditional love can quietly shape our experience. The teaching is connected to how perception itself is filtered, showing how habitual thoughts and beliefs narrow what we notice and reinforce suffering or ease. By consciously cultivating wholesome mental patterns, we can “reset the filter” of attention and begin to perceive a more open, interconnected reality. ★ Support this podcast ★

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Guest: Chozen Roshi

Topics covered

• Four Immeasurables
• loving kindness
• compassion
• sympathetic joy
• equanimity
• Buddhist teachings
• perception

Keywords

• Four Immeasurables
• Buddhism
• loving kindness
• compassion
• equanimity
• perception
• mental patterns

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