Love and fear: finding the middle way in relationships, by Andrew Sono Tootell

Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast by OzZen

May 29, 202600:33:01Religion & Spirituality

This dharma talk explores how the Zen teaching of “not two, not one” offers a middle way for relationships by holding together intimacy and difference, love and fear, and oneness and individuality. It suggests that spiri...

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