Falling Into the Stillness That Already Is

Duration: 21:22Date: August, 2009 (exact date is unknown).Duration: 21:22A talk on cultivating stillness. Themes include: the types of stillness; falling into the stillness that already is; the importance of openness, freedom, and expansiveness in the body when doing Zazen; falling out into the vastness; finding the practice that brings you to stillness; the ego-mind as antithetical to stillness; the body, stillness, and the Tao; radiant 'Isness' -- Mahākāśyapa and the Flower Sermon; the lotus and the swamp as an analogy of Zazen practice; the ordeal of sitting in the swamp with one's trauma, pain, and fear