“How do your opinions and preferences take you out of relationship and a life of practice?”

Honoring the Buddha’s death, Nehan-e observance is an opportunity to pay closer attention to your life, to show up and step forward. How will you life your life without regret?

In this dharma talk, Koshin Sensei implores us to fully commit to being in our lives. To stop holding back and to move forward into the fullness of who we are. Commemorating the death of Shakyamuni Buddha is for the living. Like all rituals, it is a another chance to set down our small selves and experience the connections between all things. When we wholeheartedly step into the practice together we see how everyone of us is strange and ordinary; unique and exactly the same. 

Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, leader in contemplative care, and co-founder of an educational non-profit called the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. His books, grounded in Buddhist wisdom and practice, have gained national attention. Through its numerous educational programs, contemplative retreats, and Soto Zen Buddhist practices, the New York Zen Center touches thousands of lives every year.

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.

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