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Meeting the Inconceivable | Zen Koans, Dreams & the Creative Life

Meeting the Inconceivable | Zen Koans, Dreams & the Creative Life

Released: 2025-06-10
© 2025 Pacific Zen Institute. All Rights Reserved.
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16 Episodes
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16 Episodes
Audio
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Released: 2025-06-10
© 2025 Pacific Zen Institute. All Rights Reserved.
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Uncertainty as the Bodhisattva's Healing Balm [EP 16]

Uncertainty as the Bodhisattva's Healing Balm [EP 16]

Today, Roshi Allison Atwill explores the bodhisattva’s unique relationship with uncertainty as a healing balm for suffering. Describing how Zen Buddhism draws from the Mahayana tradition in which the bodhisattva path means helping to awaken all being
Time: 47:33
Today, Roshi Allison Atwill explores the bodhisattva’s unique relationship with uncertainty as a healing balm for suffering.
Describing how Zen Buddhism draws from the Mahayana tradition in which the bodhisattva path means helping to awaken all beings, Atwill notes this is not a future goal to somehow be achieved but a moment-to-moment way of meeting every aspect of our own lives with sincere openness.
Your awakening has no recipe, she says. It’s uniquely yours to discover as everything you’ve taken as a given falls away.
"You can't get paint-by-numbers for a painting that doesn't exist. And it is the same for your awakening." - Tess Beasley.
Learn more about this episode of Meeting the Inconceivable at https://www.pacificzen.org/16
Episode ID: 1000712259275
GUID: 33baae63-b590-41c6-a5ce-23e8b13615cb
Release Date: 10/06/2025, 14:30:00

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Meeting the Inconceivable is a podcast exploring Zen koans, dreams, and the creative life produced by Pacific Zen Institute (PZI).
PZI is a lively Rinzai Zen community and mystery school made up of artists, innovators, and seekers of all kinds. Our talks weave traditional Zen and koan practice with poetry, art, Jungian and archetypal psychology, and Eastern and Western myth.
Our deep dive in-person retreats are held primarily in Northern California, but our members and gatherings extend worldwide through our online temple.
Our mission is to create a culture of transformation through meditation, koans, the arts, and conversations about the deepest matters. Join the koan revolution.

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