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	Podcast:		Upaya Zen Center
	Episode:		Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Vimalakirti Chapter 5: Bondage and Liberty
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:38:43
	Publish Date:		2021-10-17 22:01:08
	Description:		Matthew Kozan Palevsky delves into Chapter 5 of the Vimalakirti sutra. He begins by reminding us how sickness can open up the possibility for connection and healing, saying “In illness we can feel uniquely undefended, unpretentious, unmitigated, unquestioning, undone. At times this can feel like overwhelming intimacy with whomever is with us, or with all of life.” He then delves into the causes of Vimalakirti’s sickness, which is our sickness, and how we are to understand its cure. He tackles this central topic of Zen by breaking it down into two sicknesses and two cures, saying: “For the first, we apply the view of emptiness to a mind that wants to cling to duality. And for the second sickness we use Great Compassion to heal the broken heartedness that arises from Great Compassion. Of course, this is only one sickness, which is no sickness at all.” Kozan closes with a case from the Blue Cliff Record that expresses Vimalakirti’s invitation to meet the world with Wisdom and Upaya — with Great Compassion. Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky 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... More
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