It's a busy time of year for the world's religions--Buddha's birthday, Ramadan, Easter, and Passover to name a few. Some of those holidays are more joyous than others, some might have a bit of bitter with the sweet. We could curse the GPS that's kept us wandering for 40 years in the desert of suffering. We could grudgiungly accept suffering, but with overtones of "Why me?!?" While we may think we're stuck and wandering aimlessly and getting nowhere, our Zen practice gives us the realization that our practice itself is aim-less. We're home right where we are, and our awakening is available to us whether we're at home or the middle of a peninsula. We can accept that our thinking keeps us in the chains of suffering, and that our thinking, suffering, and bondage are all subject to causes and conditions, and as such are characterized by emptiness.
Robert Koho Epstein gives us the Dharma talk on April 5, 2023 at One Mind Zen.
