About this episode

Sensei Ryotan discusses self-judgment and perfectionism through the lens of the Lotus Sutra's teachings.

In this third-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan takes up the habit of self-judgment — that familiar contraction after a mistake, the script of not being good enough, and the perfectionism that keeps us small. Framing her teaching through the Lotus Sutra’s Never-Disparaging Bodhisattva, who bows to every being’s capacity for awakening even as rocks and… Source

People in this episode

Host: Joan Halifax

Guest: Sensei Ryotan

Topics covered

• self-judgment
• perfectionism
• Bodhisattva
• awakening
• Spring Practice Period
• Sesshin

Keywords

• self-judgment
• perfectionism
• Bodhisattva
• Lotus Sutra
• awakening
• Sesshin
• Spring Practice Period

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lotus Sutra

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