How do you actually meet your life? | Koshin Paley Ellison

“It is not through ease that we open, but through challenge, the challenge of being in relationship.”    In this talk, Koshin Sensei encourages us to face our discomfort and notice all the ways we distance ourselves from everyone and everything around us. Imagine what encountering your life might look and feel like. Koshin explores […]

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“It is not through ease that we open, but through challenge, the challenge of being in relationship.” 

 

In this talk, Koshin Sensei encourages us to face our discomfort and notice all the ways we distance ourselves from everyone and everything around us. Imagine what encountering your life might look and feel like. Koshin explores fundamental questions posed by Charlotte Joko Beck and formative stories about Zen ancestors recounted by Keizan Zenji. Through fits of laughter and anecdotes of monks behaving badly, Koshin teaches us to summon our inner cowgirl and throw open the doors of our lives. There is a wildness to practice. Is your life about hiding in your discomfort or about actually opening up to all that is unfolding?

 

ZENTALK NOTES

Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, leader in contemplative care, and co-founder of an educational non-profit called the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. His books, grounded in Buddhist wisdom and practice, have gained national attention. Through its numerous educational programs, contemplative retreats, and Soto Zen Buddhist practices, the New York Zen Center touches thousands of lives every year. 

 

MUSIC

Heart Sutra by Kanho Yakushiji –  Buddhist priest and musician of the Rinzai sect and Imaji temple in Imabari, Japan. In 2003, he formed “KISSAQUO”, a songwriting duo based in Kyoto.

 

NYZC PUBLICATIONS

Untangled (Koshin’s new book) here: https://bit.ly/untangled-book
Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up here: https://amzn.to/2JTKF1t
Awake At The Bedside here: https://amzn.to/3aijXdL

 
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