SPP2026: Sesshin Day 1: Joyful Effort

SPP2026: Sesshin Day 1: Joyful Effort

April 30, 2026 · 35 min

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Sensei Monshin discusses the concept of joyful effort as the essential energy of practice in the first talk of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin.

In this first formal talk of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Monshin takes up virya — the Sanskrit term for joyful effort — as the essential energy of practice. What does it mean to […]

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