Something’s Happening Here and We Don’t Know What It Is

In light of the Varela Symposium and his travels, Sensei Matthew Kozan Palevsky is interested in study and knowledge and different ways of knowing. He considers the pitfalls of knowing—how we can become separated from what we seek to know through our study of it. How do we let ourselves be porous and not try to own something, including ourselves, through study? In his investigation, Sensei Kozan delightfully references Dogen’s “All-Inclusive Study,” Bob Dylan, and the story of “grasping space” between Chinese zen masters Shigong Huizang and Xitang Zhizang.