Alina Burgess, Rev.

Helping on an Introductory Retreat recently, I gave the meditation instruction and was stuck by how very direct our practice is. Other traditions may use a technique to help bring oneself to the sitting. In Zen we go straight to it, we sit in the unchartered territory from the start. We sit with/within whatever we find, we ‘meet’ the moment, just as it is. I found it fruitful to explore this observation further, to look at training through this lens.

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