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SPP2026: Sesshin Day 5: Returning to the Source
In this fifth-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senko and Sensei Monshin explore the ninth ox-herding picture, Returning to the Source — the stage where effort ceases and life simply flows. Dra...
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SPP2026: Sesshin Day 5: Returning to the Source is an episode from Upaya Zen Center by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot. In this fifth-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senko and Sensei Monshin expl...
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Published May 1, 2026, 54:10 long, audio available.
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In this fifth-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senko and Sensei Monshin explore the ninth ox-herding picture, Returning to the Source — the stage where effort ceases and life simply flows. Drawing on Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, the Xin Xin Ming, and the Song of the Grass Hut, Monshin traces the difference between striving and ease, and how returning to the source is not… Source
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Published May 1, 2026 and 54:10 long