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	Podcast:		Upaya Zen Center
	Episode:		Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Mahakashyapa and Beginning Again for the First Time
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:42:45
	Publish Date:		2020-01-20 06:00:30
	Description:		In this Dharma Talk in the middle of the Winter Practice Period, Matthew Kozan Palevsky relates his recent experiences at Chaco Canyon with the Mahakashyapa chapter from the Transmission of Light. When Zen Master Keizan says that we don’t understand Kashyapa’s awakening, how do we incorporate that into our reading? “One understanding,” Kozan says, “might be that we wake up to the suchness of life that is always already there—nobody can give it or take it away.” Matthew Kozan Palevsky Matthew Kozan Palevsky first traveled to Upaya in 2006 for a weeklong silent retreat, or sesshin. He returned eight years later to join the resident body and was ordained as a novice priest by... More
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