The Engage Wisdom Alpha Archive

Visiting aunt in Virginia; being at Tassajara in 1996; men and women practicing together; story of a sculptor friend having a lung transplant.

Dogen's Genjo Koan; dealing with delusion, enlightenment and suffering; mastery is not getting rid of negative emotions and thoughts; story of Montana smoke-jumper.

Cooking demonstration; practice of eating just one potato chip

Impossible to keep everybody happy with style of teaching; story of coming to Tassajara in 1966; fundraising for the monastery; not hiding negative parts of personality; the stories our hands reveal....

Being a child in an orphanage; learning to meditate; sitting with negative tendencies; five fears outlined by Buddha;