Let It Come, Not Go

This talk starts from the common wish for a peaceful place in ourselves that protects us permanently from difficulty. The talk invokes the koan "Dongshan's No Cold or Heat" and reads it as a teaching about our relationship to impermanence: conditions alternate outside our control and we typically meet them with comparison and preference. Our wish to escape into stability is the question religion has answered with two ideas: (1) a better world elsewhere (heaven, nirvana) and (2) a path by whic...