PZI Teacher Archives
October 5 2022
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June 28, 2023
Falling Into the Well of Sesshin
The nice thing about falling is it’s already happened, you know? It started already; there’s not much you can do about it. So you’re kind of free, in a way. It’s sort of like being condemned: Knowing you’ll die tomorrow—well, you can do anything you want tonight.
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October 24, 2022
Fall Sesshin 2022: Allowing the Fall
On entering a great sesshin, what is the tone? A quiet, receptive sense of modesty and humility, a humility of the earth, fallen into like Psyche into the underworld. Allowing the fall and encountering whatever appears, whatever one meets, is essential. Complete sesshin talk from October 5, 2022.