Description
What is this life? The nature of what appears is always changing—it’s something we feel together in ‘the bath. Prajna, or wisdom, is learning to recognize and see accurately. We can suddenly see that everything is okay and here, and yet it’s a dance. We find it; we lose it again. In practice, as in life, lost things return or cycle in and take their leave again.
Summary
What is this life? It is always changing.
The nature of what appears is always changing—it’s something we feel together in ‘the bath.’ We recognize some essence together, but it is hard to define.
Prajna, or wisdom, is learning to recognize and see accurately.
We can suddenly see that everything is okay and here, and yet it’s a dance. Everything has it, and this makes even the unbearable parts not so bad. We find it, we lose it again. In practice, as in life, lost things return or cycle in and take their leave again.
Awakening is really a remembering—we open the doors to our underground memory system to see what wants to find us. The Dao is always working in us, cataloguing what is needed in any given moment. You already have it. Suffering is in what we feel we lack or needs fixing.
What do we want? We want our whole lives.
2023 Fall Retreat talk recorded Thursday, September 28th. Closing words from Jon Joseph, vows and blessings from Amaryllis Fletcher & Amanda Boughton.
