Winter Solstice Retreat, Talk One: It's All Empty - with Henry Shukman

Henry describes how meditation practice exclusively focused on awakening (kensho) can bypass the enormous gains practice offers our ordinary lives. Zen practice directly meets our daily anxieties, joys, losses, and gains. It meets and supports us right where we are. The whole thrust of deep Buddhist teachings is to meet our lives in normal everyday reality. As we develop loving awareness (mindfulness) it’s possible to be peacefully with suffering. We can let ourselves know our suffering rather than distracting ourselves from it.
This moment - just as it is - is our reality.
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Thanks for everything you're doing Henry! You have been a tremendous help to me and I look forward everyday to practicing Koans with you in Sam Harris' app. May everything be well with you