emotions

Allison introduces a koan that is a fragment of a precept: ‘Not attacking, not withdrawing. Not real or unreal. There’s an ocean of bright clouds, an ocean of solemn clouds.’ The volatility of confinement in lockdown and the vastness within it.

Zoom Zen Audio – Allison talks us through the first indications of our new normal. Tenderness for the smallest things. Her talk is first and then a silent meditation with the koan: ‘Stop the dogs barking at midnight!’, poems & reflections afterward.