Episode 32: Just Feel Your Way Along the Wall
By Tess Beasley
In this episode, Roshi Tess Beasley begins with an old Seamus Heaney poem about how the universe appears in all its splendor in the places we least expect.
What does it mean to stay intimate with the being of the world, and let it unfold against our fingertips?
What does it mean to give way to poverty in Zen, meaning to be empty of ideas and preconceived notions?
Listen to this episode to learn how to feel your way along the wall, no matter how dark.
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It doesn’t matter how it comes to you, that you begin to dissolve your usual borders and feel a part of things.
— Tess Beasley
Show notes:
- What does koan Zen say about intimacy
- What does it mean to stay intimate with the being of the world
- How can we make sense of the feeling that our borders are not as certain as we thought they were
- What does it mean to give way to poverty in Zen
- How to let the world in
- How to feel your way along the wall
The contours of the self are completely bogus, but the more you shore them up the more certain they try to be.
— Tess Beasley
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Whatever certainty exists, you have to be committed to it to keep it going.
— Tess Beasley