About this episode

The episode explores the concept of relaxed effort during the second day of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin.

During the second day of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senko takes up the koan of relaxed effort — how effort and ease, far from being opposed, are expressed in the same movement. […]

Topics covered

• sesshin
• koan
• effort
• ease

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