Dharma Talks

Debra Seido Martin is Zen West's Guiding Teacher. She was transmitted in 2009 by Kyogen Carlson, late Abbott of Dharma Rain Zen Center. Seido is an organic farmer and psychotherapist devoted to the wild and giving space of practice and grace of the land. She carries forward her teacher’s directive to “ordain into your life.”

Koan Summer: A Fire Runs Through All Things

It is a koan, this condition of climate change we find ourselves in because of radically altering the biosphere. And it is not an optional koan—it works on all of us even if we don’t want to work on it. The koan approach is the only way to fully meet something that threatens to kill us. Am I willing to be changed? Am I willing to learn something that I wish I didn’t have to learn?

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