Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast WPP2026: Sesshin Day 1: Zenki–Undivided Activity
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Feb 2, 2026 Reflections on aligning with each moment and acting with care, attention, and nonviolence. Conversations about embodied rituals like walking and meal practice as ways to cultivate presence. Discussions of solidarity, grief, and holding collective suffering with bodhicitta. Practical guidance on posture, breath, and dropping rumination to awaken seamless, undivided activity.
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Poem That Weaves Practice And World
- Fushin's poem 'The Dawning' evokes communal stillness: raven, creaking floor, rows of robes.
- Joan uses the poem to show practice as inclusive and woven with the world.
Sangha Makes Interbeing Felt
- Sangha practice makes interbeing palpable: communal forms cultivate a felt sense of non-separateness.
- The 'one body' arises through diverse roles harmonizing in practice.
Undivided Activity And No-Self
- Zenki (undivided activity) dissolves the separate self and reframes action as part of a seamless whole.
- This shifts agency from 'I do' to 'what is being done' and fosters alignment with things as they are.
