PLAY PODCASTS
After No Comes Yes

After No Comes Yes

Ocean Mind Sangha · Zuisei Goddard

March 31, 201841m 12s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (static1.squarespace.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

Through the practice of zazen, we come to see the unruliness of our minds more intimately. In this talk, Zuisei speaks on the arising of “no”— the “not this” aspect of our practice that allows for discernment and the continual practice of turning towards a more ultimate truth. And after all the “nos”, Zuisei says, there comes a “yes”— an opening to infinite possibility and freedom. “All of these ‘nos’ are so we can get to ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ on which not just the future, but this world and every world depends. This is what we’re doing in seshin, nodding our yes’s, so we can get to that final, that incontrovertible yes.”