About this episode

Sensei Fushin discusses the first two folds of the Eightfold Path, emphasizing the importance of right view and right intention.

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Fushin turns to the first two folds of the Eightfold Path—right view and right intention—the wisdom from which the rest of the path grows. Right view, he suggests, is not a belief we acquire but seeing what is actually here, before we add our story about it. “The eye opens. The heart leans,” he says — one sees, one moves, and they are not two. Source

People in this episode

Host: Joan Halifax

Guest: Sensei Fushin

Topics covered

• Eightfold Path
• right view
• right intention
• Buddhism
• Dharma talk

Keywords

• Eightfold Path
• right view
• right intention
• Buddhism
• Dharma talk

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