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	Podcast:		Upaya Zen Center
	Episode:		Joan Halifax: The Practice of Emptiness
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:46:52
	Publish Date:		2021-12-10 01:00:01
	Description:		Roshi Joan Halifax unpacks the three doors of liberation, Vimalakirti’s gift to us: emptiness, signless, and aimlessness. She reminds us that “liberation isn’t just about freeing your body or mind from suffering, liberation is actually about being free from all preferences, [it’s about] being radically open to what is.” She calls us to practice beyond duality, and engage with the teaching of “Not one, Not two.” It is from this place of non preferential mind and emptiness that we can answer Vimalakirti’s “imperative for the bodhisattva to engage the everyday world for true awakening to be manifested.” Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD Abbot Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of... More
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