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Shinzan Palma & Kathie Fischer: Zazenkai: The Buddha’s raft to this very moment!

10.13.2019 - By Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya AbbotPlay

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Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma and Sokaku Kathie Fischer continue their discussion of the Diamond Sutra. This time Sensei Shinzan talks about the sixth passage of the text, which is about the true faith of belief. A pivotal sentence from the chapter reads, “Bhagavan, will there be any beings in the future, in the final epoch, in the final period, in the final five hundred years of the dharma-ending age, who give birth to a perception of the truth of the words of a sutra such as that spoken here?” Sensei Kathie discusses the feeling of immediacy that practice affords, a feeling which many of us have felt that we lost in childhood.

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