Episode 9: The Great Voyage of Your Awakening
Join Roshi Allison Atwill to explore awakening as a great voyage, one that is entirely your own, and yet in which you are somehow accompanied by the entire universe.
Atwill tells the riveting story of one sailor’s solo journey around Cape Horn and reveals how, in the end, he gives up on the mind that races and compares, and turns toward Tahiti … a beacon for his true nature.
What does it mean to give up on the project of improving and protecting the self? How does Zen Buddhism help us navigate a path to freedom?
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Think of Buddha’s life as a kind of solo navigation of his own psyche.
— Allison Atwill
Show notes:
- Zen Buddhism’s awakening as a Great Voyage
- You have already embarked on a journey
- Meditation practice becomes a path of recognition
- What is Zen? Snow in a Silver Bowl
Each person takes the voyage of awakening alone and in some sense entirely accompanied by the universe.
— Allison Atwill
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Your eyes begin to be clarified and what falls away are our opinions, and you start to notice where you are.
— Allison Atwill