Wisdom of Not Knowing
Title: Wisdom of Not Knowing
Recorded: April 11, 2009
Posted on: June 1, 2009
Speaker: Sensei Beate Stolte
Show: 139This is Sensei Beate’s first talk of the spring sesshin. Sensei encourages participants to practice together while having no expectations. She discusses the importance of mudra, mantra and posture on the cushion as deep practice. Our entire practice is an act of gratitude to the ancestors, and yet we must be our own teachers, as well.
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Wisdom of Not Knowing: On Pilgrimage
Speaker: Sensei Beate Genko Stolte
Our practice works through its own integrity. It is easiest to enter the practice of sesshin through each breath, like a poem asking the reader to enter through each word or phrase. It takes time and patience. And, like some well-loved poems do, the practice may begin to appear in our lives without our own effort. It can become natural. We can begin to come into our own true nature in each breath and each thing we do.
Wisdom of Not Knowing: Acting Within the Mystery
Speaker: Sensei Beate Genko Stolte
Each of us is the center, actualizing time and space. Everything has such far-reaching and interdependent effects that we cannot possibly know all the aspects of a given situation. Moreover, our senses are limited in what they tell us; there is a lot happening “between” the senses. Not knowing means acting within the mystery of what is left out by our senses. Can we let the mind be guided by the grounded, initial mind – the non-thinking mind? If we can, we do not need a “self” because we simply rely on the natural process. Dogen says, “the mind that sees fully into the uncertain world of life and death is the thought of enlightenment.”
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