The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

Meditation and Wisdom, Function and Essence

January 31 · 41 min · 26.4 MB
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/31/26 - The wellspring of wisdom in Zen is meditation. Yet wisdom alone is not enough; the path of liberation must also fully embody compassion. Compassion is not separate from awakening but an essential and indivisible expression of it, permeating every aspect of practice and life. In this Sesshin talk, Shugen Roshi encourages us to draw compassion close within our zazen, leaving nothing outside our practice.