Buffalo Tail: A Story of Continuous Practice

Buffalo Tail: A Story of Continuous Practice

May 25, 2026 · 38 min

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Sensei Dainin discusses the intersection of western medicine and Zen practice, focusing on compassion and connection.

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Dainin — emergency physician turned dharma teacher — explores what western medicine trains us to suppress and what Zen practice invites us to reclaim. Tracing her own path from clinical dissociation to a reawakening of compassion and connection at Upaya’s Being with Dying training, she turns to the well known koan of a water buffalo whose tail catches in… Source

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