The Challenge of Lay Zen Practice and the Essence of Renunciation or "Letting Go."

Endless Path Zendo | Roshi Rafe Martin - A podcast by Roshi Rafe Martin - Saturdays

Recorded June 8, 2024. The first 18 minutes of this recording are the “teisho proper,” focusing on the essential worth — and challenge — of ongoing lay Zen practice. If you stop there you’ll have a short and direct teisho. But the rest of the recording adds resonance. Roshi Martin then reads Kipling’s, “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat,” a tale that presents the essence of renunciation, the ancient traditional path of maturing beyond self-centeredness. We modern lay Zen practit...