I have no words. There’s nothing I can give you that you don’t already have. There’s nothing I can add to what you already are. So we use words because we’ve forgotten who we are in our ignorance. We walk down the road of habit energy, it drags us along like a chain, and we struggle. As we go down the path of getting to know ourselves, we discover that there are options for us that we didn’t think we […]
Tag Archives: Will Rauschenberger
Life’s Trauma And Liberation
Zen is not mental replacement therapy for your self image.
Loving Kindness Is Not An Idea
You cannot think your way into Loving Kindness…
The Primordial Darkness
Did Buddha pierce right through the primordial darkness of ignorance?
Relaxing In What Is
Opening the hand of thought.
Seeking Validation
You are a unique expression of the universal.
Here We Are!
“One’s presence makes for a good present”
Wind Blows, Old Songs End, New Ones Begin
The Song of Liberation…
Attached to Name & Form, Talks with Chong An Sunim, part 2
This part is two of three sessions at Ordinary Zen Sangha in November 2024 with Zen Master Chong An Sunim and Abbot Will Rauschenberger.
The Relative and Absolute, is it different or not?
A OZS sangha member asks: “Is there, or is there not, a balance between our absolute expansive selves and our relative selves that outflow into the world?”