Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Only a Buddha and a Buddha

Matthew Kozan Palevsky invites us to look at the relationship between samu, or work practice, and the experience of being a Buddha. He says, “Only a Buddha and a Buddha is a practice of being in the world as things are. It’s sitting zazen, it’s walking through an aspen grove, and it’s the whole world as samu.” Kozan uses the work of Zen Master Dogen, Roshis John Daido Loori and Joan Halifax, and Sensei Kathie Fischer in order to look at samu as a way of being in relationship, as a way of identifying impediments to practice, and as a way to see our work as our self.