Finding the Monastery in Samsara

Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei – ZMM – 3/27/26 – In this Renewal of Vows (Fusatsu) talk, Shoan Sensei offers the perspective that we are practicing within samsara, exactly where we are. Here we can come very close to the narrow habits and patterns that create suffering—something we cannot do in some imagined fantasy of a Buddha Land. Taking up the place where we find ourselves as the place of our own vows, we can discover ways to bring forward our infinite capacity to leave possessiveness and self-delusion behind, and, with the support of the precepts, learn to be truly free. It is here that transformation can happen.

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Finding the Monastery in Samsara is an episode from The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast by Zen Mountain Monastery.

This episode is 26:15 long.

This episode was published on Mar 27, 2026.

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