Joan Halifax: The Practice of Emptiness

Roshi Joan Halifax unpacks the three doors of liberation, Vimalakirti’s gift to us: emptiness, signless, and aimlessness. She reminds us that “liberation isn’t just about freeing your body or mind from suffering, liberation is actually about being free from all preferences, [it’s about] being radically open to what is.” She calls us to practice beyond duality, and engage with the teaching of “Not one, Not two.” It is from this place of non preferential mind and emptiness that we can answer Vimalakirti’s “imperative for the bodhisattva to engage the everyday world for true awakening to be manifested.” For Program/Series description and to access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: Fall Practice Period 2021: The Bodhisattva Way of Vimalakirti