The author says meditation is collaborative and relational, at least if you want to make real progress. In his early years as a meditator he was given instructions and told to go and do them. But once he got into Zen in a serious way, he kind of got the sense that you're supposed to have a teacher. "It's about integrating what we realize in these experiences"
In this Episode, You'll Learn:
- The importance of being with and opening up to pain to find healing
- Why working with a spiritual teacher can be an important part of a healing path
- How awakening experiences are doorways we must walk through to find spiritual growth
- The value of community in a spiritual journey
- How to discover the deep experience of life's ordinary moments
- What Zen and poetry have in common
- What it means to come home to and discover a deeper part of ourselves
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