Zencare Podcast

Zencare Podcast


Dismantling the Small Self | Koshin Paley Ellison

July 02, 2025

When illness and loss touch our community, how can we transform uncertainty into deeper practice?


In this recent dharma talk, Koshin Sensei explores how life's fragility can awaken rather than paralyze us. Drawing from Shakyamuni Buddha's third awareness, he reveals how we trap ourselves in narrow self-concepts and offers practice as the antidote.


“Let the forms of the practice dismantle your self-image,” he guides, echoing Uchiyama Roshi's wisdom to “let go of the small self to realize the vastness of life itself.”


Discover how to break free from the stories that keep you limited and step into true spaciousness.