The Teaching of Thus: the Avatamsaka Sutra as a Root of Zen Practice.

The Teaching of Thus: the Avatamsaka Sutra as a Root of Zen Practice

The Teaching of Thus: the Avatamsaka Sutra as a Root of Zen Practice

"How is what it means to be human transformed, or expanded, by allowing or imagining another perspective?"

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"Let the rage and the hurt and the righteous anger be one of the things that we affirm in this wide, life affirming embrace."

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"Sometimes it can look like the project is not to feel and not to listen to pain. But can we start, instead, to regard our pain as a kind of superpower?"

"When you walk in the door for the first time, there is already an aspiration to free all beings from suffering. Within the beginner's mind is the Bodhisattva vow, which for us is the heart/mind, the motivation that allows us to sit and be uncomfortable, because within the vow there is a spark of our natural wish to care for other beings."

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"Let’s encourage each other to dance with our vows, to dance with the taste of our freedom."

"In the stability of practice, we have to humanize everybody."