Zen and Emotion

Duration: 38:15Date: February, 2011 (exact date unknown).Duration: 38:15This talk is about Buddhism and desire, and how one needs to relate to one's desires in order to effectively participate in Zazen. It also discusses what one's emotional lives have to be in order to liberate us from ourselves. Themes include: giving yourself up to the lower self; heart transmission and pain; one's relationship to one's guru; pain and fear; staying in samadhi; healing of the heart; the Divine; the back and forth between self-assertion and self-surrender