Dharma Talk by Koshin Paley Ellison, Co-Founder and Guiding Teacher of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care

Intimacy is based on the willingness to open ourselves to many others, to family, friends, and even strangers, forming genuine and deep bonds based on common humanity. Koshin Paley Ellison’s teachings share the way forward into a path of connection, compassion and intimacy.

Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMin, is an author/editor and Soto Zen teacher and psychotherapist. Appreciated for his guidance in helping people integrate and apply time-tested Buddhist teachings as simple strategies for living in today’s chaotic world, He is a Co-Founder and Guiding Teacher of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up and an editor of the best-selling book Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care.