In this talk during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan explores the first of Dogen’s Four Methods of Guidance: Dana (generosity). Dogen himself lived in a tumultuous era of social upheaval, war, and natural disasters, in the midst of which he chose to deeply contemplate and write about generosity. Ryotan explains how “this idea of generosity is radically reimagined in the hands of…

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