"Practice, what's that? This is not practice, this is their lives, this is not just their way of living, this is the life that wells up within, the life that's forming and moving in the world. Your practice is your life. This is you living." 

This talk was offered as part of SZBA's Celebrating the Voices of Women in Buddhism series.

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.

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?"