Kathie Fischer: Accepting Things as They Are: First Day of Sesshin – Fall Practice Period 2022 (6 of 11)

Sensei Kathie Fischer  gives the first Dharma talk of Upaya’s Fall Practice Period 2022 sesshin. She generously shares her experience and wisdom with us on sitting a sesshin, including how to practice with emotional turbulence, repressed thoughts and feelings rising to the surface, physical pain, the formal eating ritual of oryoki, and the much needed discipline of rest. She encourages us to face ourselves, even those parts of ourselves that we’d rather look away from, with a sense of patience, acceptance, and, if possible, even gratitude and wonder. Wonder is not something that just happens to us, Kathie reminds us. It’s a practice. It’s a choice. To access the resources page for this program, please sign up by clicking here. For Program/Series description and to access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: SPRING PRACTICE PERIOD 2022: Cultivating the Empty Field