Upaya Dharma Podcasts - Wisdom of Not Knowing: Trusting the Practice

Excellent teaching - not knowing is the only space in which we become an open system, capable of insight.

Wisdom of Not Knowing: Trusting the Practice

Speaker: Sensei Beate Genko Stolte

Sensei Beate urges us to allow zazen to be a self-organizing process, and not expect a recipe. We cannot think it through. After all, what mental factors are present if there is no thinking on the cushion? The seated Buddha posture is a womb, a forge where a knowing beyond ordinary knowing appears. There is no recipe to this. Trust in the practice is required.

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