Effort And Aliveness

The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast by Zen Mountain Monastery

Aug 9, 202641:59Religion & Spirituality

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 8/9/26 - With effort in practice, we bring forth our natural aliveness. To do this we make an effort to let go of self-clinging and other ways we deplete our energies. Even with expectatio...

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