Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast

Planting Life 2026: Rewilding

June 17 · 1 hr 3 min · 61.9 MB
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In this fifth session of Planting Life, Roshi Joan Halifax gathers the community around Wendell Berry’s poem “The Person Born to Farming” — reading it aloud, line by line, drawing participants into its imagery of soil as divine drug, of entering death yearly and coming back rejoicing. The poem becomes a lens for the day’s planting, and a doorway into the concept of sympoiesis — the understanding…

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