Discussion Facilitator: Rosemary Brown. November 9, 2019.
“Our individual awakenings become part of the world’s awakening. This means leaning into life, and to do that we have to recognize what gets in the way.
"Everything is provisional, and everything influences everything else. The implication for our inner lives is that they are seamless with the outer world, and constantly changing with it. We’re not encapsulated consciousnesses bouncing around in a world of other consciousnesses and inert matter, but part of a vibrant, ever-changing field that encompasses everything we can experience, and more. Everything is rising and falling in this field, sometimes for a nanosecond and sometimes for a geological age, but still appearing and disappearing in an infinitely complex web of other things doing the same. To the extent that we experience, in the ordinary moments of our lives, the seam-lessness of our inner states and outer circumstances, we’re being more realistic, more in tune with the way things actually are."–Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland, Roshi is a Zen koan teacher and the founder of Awakened Life in Santa Fe, New Mexico.