I grew up admiring Peter Tossen, Shaegevara and most institutions were things that ought to be torn down as far as I was concerned. So even when I went to Asendo, which is a pretty radical kind of institution in the West, at least in those days, even then I didn't really think of it as a home. You know, I thought of somehow something intrinsically threatening about any institution almost. But gradually, gradually, I just got softened by sitting with people. And I started to just sort of fall in love with not exactly literally, but you know, kind of feel like I was falling in love with the room, with the people in the
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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