Come to Rest in Actuality

About this episode

Jody Hojin Kimmel and Danica Shoan Ankele explore the duality of Buddha and Mara in human nature during a collaborative Dharma Talk.

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei and Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/15/26 - Buddha and Mara are figurative ways of portraying a fundamental seeming opposition within our human nature: Buddha stands for a capacity for awareness, openness, and freedom; with Mara representing a capacity for confusion, closure, and restriction. In this collaborative Dharma Talk Shoan and Hojin explore the four traditional teachings of the ways Mara appears. - This talk followed the Meeting Mara : the Art of Fearless Presence Retreat.

People in this episode

Guests: Jody Hojin Kimmel, Danica Shoan Ankele

Topics covered

• Buddhism
• Dharma Talk
• Awareness
• Human Nature
• Fearless Presence

Keywords

• Buddha
• Mara
• awareness
• confusion
• Dharma Talk
• retreat
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ZCNYC

Books & works: Meeting Mara : the Art of Fearless Presence Retreat

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