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What Zen “Acceptance” and “Non-Attachment” Really Are
What Zen “Acceptance” and “Non-Attachment” Really Are
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
May 4, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The practices of acceptance and non-attachment are critical to Zen and Buddhist practice, but they are easily misunderstood. It can sound like we're being asked not to care about things, or not to try to change things for the better. Fortunately, this is not what Zen means by acceptance or non-attachment, because 1) it's impossible (or psychologically and spiritually damaging) not to care, and 2) trying to change things for the better is the bodhisattva path itself!
Released:
May 4, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Buddha's Teachings Part 1: The Three Marks and the Teaching of Not-Self (Anatta): From the beginning, the Buddha's teachings featured the Three Characteristics of Existence: anicca (impermanence), dukkha (dissatisfactoriness), and anatta (not-self). This episode introduces the Three Characteristics and then goes into the teaching... by The Zen Studies Podcast