The Importance of Mindfulness in Meditation

"I had lived an entire life being impacted by systemic oppression and I was suffering from my own internalized suppression," she says. "Even though I had been practicing for 15 years in Nisrin ... I still was in some kind of cocoon where I was very silent but yet there was this militant so this water and fire, this tension inside of me." She picks up returning to silence by Suzuki Roshi after hearing him speak at a book store. 'He somehow had translated the teachings in a way that fit me at that time'