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When Effort Becomes Intimacy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this opening retreat talk, Jogen explores the nature of effort in zazen, describing practice as a living, responsive correction of the mind’s continual drift from intimacy with body, breath, and present awareness. Using the image of driving a car, he shows how meditation requires both gentle steadiness and, at times, wholehearted intensity, always guided by sincerity rather than force. He unpacks the “discriminating itch” that divides experience into right and wrong, and invites practitioners to trust their innate diamond wholeness and big tender heart through unwavering attention, prayer…
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