Doing, Until There is No Doer

Duration: 26:47Date: 2007 (exact date is unknown).Duration: 26:47The talk focuses on awakening and awakened consciousness. Themes include: the Buddha's awakening; suffering and dissatisfaction; impermanence, change, and death; there is a path of liberation but it is no easy matter; liberation as the only truth - all else is illusion; two paths of liberation: heart path and path of consciousness; the self is never present -- it is busy 'selfing'; the zazen practice will undermine selfing; shikantaza (just sitting); the breath-counting, and breath-following practices; the ego and the self do not awaken; fluid immediacy in relationship to what it -- no self or anything added; sitting as the feeling body; Samadhi; right intent and discipline as essential to overcoming the habit of the self