Stepping Off A 100 Foot Pole: Case 79 The Book of Serenity
Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast - A podcast by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot - Sundays
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“When we all have enough, we can fully let go. When we fully let go, we know what it is to have enough.” In this joyful and moving talk, Sensei Matthew Kozan Palevsky breaks open Case 79 from The Book of Serenity. He gives context and background to all of the characters in the koan as well as offers an interlude on tall things and why we as humans like to go up. He considers what it means to step off the 100 foot pole again and again and concludes with reading an AI-produced algorithm about a snowball fight between him and Sensei Kodo.
