Monshin Nannette Overley: The Spiritual Source Shines Clearly in the Light

Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley guides us straight to our hearts in her teaching on The Sandokai, our Zen ancestor Shitou’s poem on the harmony of oneness and multiplicity. How do we go beyond an intellectual understanding of the merging of relative and absolute realities and bring this teaching into our lives? Our practice, she teaches, is to fully experience our human emotions and at the same time, to see them in light of impermanence and our complete interdependence with all things. Monshin reminds us that there is no contradiction between awakening, love, and grief. Indeed, by wholeheartedly, courageously, and directly experiencing the moment we’re in, we bring forth the whole.