“And what does Zen really look like? As if it actually looks like anything. When we think it looks like something, we’re on the wrong path. Mountains and rivers away from it. If it were to look like anything, it would be like the wind. We would hear and feel it. We wouldn’t see it. Just know it.”
In this dharma talk from our recent Winter Sesshin, Chodo Sensei explores foundational questions about the forms Zen practice takes. What does sesshin, a silent retreat, have to do with chanting and bowing; robes and bells? Through the teachings of Kodo Sawaki and Zen Master Raven, Chodo offers a grounded, tangible, and clear view of practice. He helps us to recognize how the Zen path manifests in our everyday lives – within ourselves and through serving one another.
ZENTALK NOTES
Chodo Robert Campbell Sensei is a co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and is part of the core faculty for the Buddhist Track in the Master in Pastoral Care and Counseling at Zen Center’s education partner, New York Theological Seminary.
MUSIC
Heart Sutra by Kanho Yakushiji – Buddhist priest and musician of the Rinzai sect and Imaji temple in Imabari, Japan. In 2003, he formed “KISSAQUO”, a songwriting duo based in Kyoto.
NYZC PUBLICATIONS
- Untangled (Koshin’s new book) here: https://bit.ly/untangled-book
- Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up here: https://amzn.to/2JTKF1t
- Awake At The Bedside here: https://amzn.to/3aijXdL
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