Send us Fan Mail

A well known saying in Zen is, "When they come, we welcome, when they go, we do not pursue." This beautiful teaching is in itself the heartbeat of our practice.  As we sit in zazen and do not move, we stop grabbing for what we want, or pushing away what is troubling. Instead we  see it all, embrace it, become the space in which everything arises and then departs. When there is no clinging to what is here at the moment, there is no pain when it goes its way. Instead we realize that something else always arises, stays awhile and leaves. This is the very nature of our lives itself, and when we can embrace it, see the beauty of it, experience the freshness and delight, the deep sense of loss and grief we live with departs as well.  And we are finally able to "Hold the Whole World In The Palm of Our Hand."

Support the show