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Kigaku Noah Rossetter & Matthew Kozan Palevsky: SESSHIN: The Perfection of Wisdom (Part 5)

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:48:21
Publish Date: 2021-04-30 17:20:53
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On this day 5  of the Spring Sesshin, Hoshi’s Kigaku Noah Rossetter and Matthew Kozan Palevsky tag team to speak on Prajna Paramita, or the Perfection of Wisdom in the Bodhicaryavatara. Kigaku does an ‘unprecedented’ slide show, depicting how concepts reduce our perceptions of a rainbow’s panoply of colors to mere dozens. Similarly, our distinct experiences of self, others, and life reduce the robust experience of reality. Kozan speaks on the notion of the two truths: the relative and the absolute.  Conceptually, in the world of the relative, the best that can be hoped for is pointing to the absolute. As he leads us into meditation,  he reminds us of the non-separation between our personal experience and the cosmos, manifested with our cosmic mudra


Kigaku Noah Rossetter

Kigaku Noah Rossetter
Executive Director

Executive Director of Upaya. Kigaku Noah Rossetter first came to Upaya for the 2010 Winter Practice Period, and later in the summer, he attended a Wilderness Fast at the...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky

Matthew Kozan Palevsky
President

Matthew Kozan Palevsky first traveled to Upaya in 2006 for a weeklong silent retreat, or sesshin.  After eight years of practicing in the marketplace as a political activist and...
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