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: Bodhisattvas in the Bath

Today we are invited to enter the element of water, the sense of touch, and an image of rare togetherness. To get into a bath, we must be vulnerable, unadorned, unclothed. The usual ways of orchestrating the world drop away. In this state of relaxation, where is the boundary between self and other?

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