The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast Circle of the Way Is Never Cut Off
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Feb 8, 2026 Danika Shohan Enkele, Sensei in the Mountains and Rivers Order who leads teachings on Dogen and continuous Zen practice. She explores turning toward practice as refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. Short guided body-centered practice and reflections on staying with discomfort, community support, compassion practices, and how rupture and honesty can open room for transformation.
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Continuous Practice Is An Unbroken Circle
- Continuous practice forms a never-cut-off circle tying aspiration, practice, enlightenment, and nirvana into one uninterrupted process.
- Danika Shohan Enkele cites Dogen: between those poles there is not a moment's gap, so rely on Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha now.
Use Simple Body Awareness To Face Discomfort
- Do bring attention into your body and stay with sensations instead of immediately fixing or narrating them.
- Danika guides a short embodied practice: feel the seat, notice tension, allow vibration or confusion without trying to change it.
Present Feeling Connects To The Whole
- Staying gently with embodied experience opens direct access to the Buddha heart-mind and reveals deep interconnectedness.
- Danika notes that touching one thread of present experience quickly opens into the whole universe and shows how connected we are.
