The Wise Woman & The Zen Master
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True teaching, true learning, and true unlearning is not about getting anything. It is just like true love: if you love someone because of what you “get” from them, your love is already doomed from the start. So the proper relationship to a teacher is what we can GIVE to them. And the greatest gift that we can bring to a teacher and a relationship is Emptiness. This giving is what allows us to receive beyond the dimensions of our preconceptions.
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Tags: Circle of Life, Emptiness, Indigenous Wisdom, Invitation, Japanese Zen, Learning, Realization, Roshi, Student, Teacher, True Teaching, Unlearning, Wisdom, Wise Women, Zazen, Zen
Rediscovering The Authority of the Heart
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All of the crises that loom large on the front pages of the daily paper and the crises that tear our families apart, can be broken down to one thing: A Crisis of False Authority
Tags: Authority, Authorship, Brain-Heart-Mind, Crisis, Heart Authority, Heart Intelligence, Heart-Mind, Indigenous Wisdom, Neurocardiology, Panarchy