Dharma Encounter with Shugen Roshi

About this episode

In this Dharma Encounter, Shugen Roshi explores how to use personal difficulties to relieve suffering and practice compassion.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 5/31/26 - Mundane truth, enlightened truth, from the beginning are all together one. But there are snags that grab us, some of them repeatedly. Hongzhi describes our original mind this way: “from the beginning it is fundamentally all together complete, undefiled, clear down to the bottom.” In this Dharma Encounter with the sangha, Shugen Roshi asks: how do each of us use our difficulty, troubles, heartache and anger to relieve our suffering? How do we heal? The sangha shares the many ways we turn, rather than heaping on destruction, and practice reality with a heart of wisdom and compassion.

People in this episode

Host: Shugen Roshi

Guest: Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Topics covered

• Dharma Encounter
• suffering
• wisdom
• compassion
• original mind
• healing

Keywords

• Dharma Encounter
• suffering
• wisdom
• compassion
• original mind
• healing
• heartache
• anger

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Hongzhi

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