Deborah Eden Tull's Dharma Talk at Esalen, January 18, 2023
Voices of Esalen
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The Myth of Self-Improvement
When the Dalai Lama first came to the United States, he had his first interview with an American student. The very first interview was a conversation about that person not feeling good enough and feeling like they didn't measure up. And so it's the same in all of life. In Zen, we sometimes point to essence as authentic self, true nature, and sometimes no self because it's just the ordinary self that's here when we empty,. When we let go and let life animate us.
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