SPP2026: Sesshin Day 3: Holding the Keys

In this third-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan takes up the habit of self-judgment — that familiar contraction after a mistake, the script of not being good enough, and the perfectionism that keeps us small. Framing her teaching through the Lotus Sutra’s Never-Disparaging Bodhisattva, who bows to every being’s capacity for awakening even as rocks and… Source

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SPP2026: Sesshin Day 3: Holding the Keys is an episode from Upaya Zen Center by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot.

This episode is 45:05 long.

This episode was published on May 1, 2026.

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