Lazy Summer Afternoons Under the Rose-Apple Tree, Part 2 of 4

We can resist rest when in the thrall of the busy mind. We may even try bringing an agenda to our meditation. Fortunately, the practice will undermine any agenda you may have.

But something in us wants to let our tiredness catch up with us—it might be the universe intervening.

Pono is a Hawai’ian word for harmonizing with the current of life.

What is it that keeps me from opening to now? Someone internally strives and someone does not strive. Can this lazy state be found anywhere?

Special August Zen, second in a series of four Sundays, recorded August 13, 2023.