About Our Practice
When we sit down on a cushion in silence with ourselves we sit in the ebb and flow of self
wholeheartedly with whatever the kaleidescope of reality presents: the sound of a bird, the
squad car's siren; feelings of shame and pride; chaotic mind, peaceful mind. Though some of
these things may be harder for us to acknowledge and stay with than others, actually each
is just what it is arising and falling away moment to moment, breath by breath. We do not
attempt to get rid of any of these experiences or to create special states of mind. Just to be
with what is, is our practice.
Through the process of letting it all in, of accepting the things we judge as good or bad,
the simple and profound practice of zazen becomes the heart of our practice, the heart of
how we open in compassion to our experience and to others.
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