Summer sesshin 2019

David tells the story of Chuang Tzu and his dream of transformation – gaining the capacity to dream yourself into anything: butterfly, dung beetle, peacock, cockroach – finding yourself in the dream in whatever form. Waking as a cockroach and the urge to go back to sleep again vs whatever I turn into embracing being it fully. We can’t know we are in a dream, or not until we wake – we are constantly changing and transforming

Allison tells two stories—one from Zhuangzi—and talks about the kensho moment of awakening versus the elliptical path of awakening that is showing up in all its forms moment to moment.