Episode 4: Why Can’t We Sever the Red Thread?
By Tess Beasley
Today Roshi Tess Beasley offers a talk on the infamous Miscellaneous Collection koan: Why can’t the clear-eyed bodhisattva sever the red thread?
Many people enter the spiritual journey hoping to transcend the messiness of being human and the inevitable longing, heartbreak, and passion it brings. Koans take another tack, which is to discover awakened mind in the very midst of our most potent desires and difficulties.
Telling stories of how we are most deeply transformed by the encounters we try to keep at bay, Beasley reveals the tenderness that emerges when we can just simply feel how connected to everything we already are.
Listen in to discover the red thread in your own life.
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Somehow, in the silence we find each other.
—Tess Beasley
Show notes:
- How are we changed by longing, heartbreak, entanglements
- What does the red thread symbolize
- How does the red thread koan reference to desire
- Why we should practice in community
By being part of the world in any way we are immediately implicated.
—Tess Beasley
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How do we accompany each other? How do we be in so much we don’t understand—including what’s happening in ourselves most of the time?
—Tess Beasley