Rohatsu 2023: Sesshin Day 6 Dharma Talk With Kaz Tanahashi & Enkyo O’Hara & Joan Halifax

In this final talk of Upaya Zen Center’s 2023 Rohatsu sesshin, Sensei Kaz opens with a reflection from a time he worked with clinicians to support their happiness and well being. Kaz touches on the challenges faced by doctors, emphasizing the significance of personal and professional moral integrity for clinicians. Roshi Enkyo continues the talk by wondering how we should practice in a way that is sincere and direct. Roshi Enkyo reminds us that sitting zazen itself is awakening. Roshi Joan discusses the form of Rohatsu and of living in community as realizing our one body.  Roshi continues by passionately speaking to the real essence of practice, of not holding on to reference points and submerging ourselves into intimacy with the world.