Wholehearted Vulnerability

Heading into weekend sesshin soon. Just viewed this TED talk and it seems a perfect preface for our practice in this swirling world where UN workers are killed in Afghanistan because somebody burned a Koran in Florida. “Stop screaming and start listening” is Brene Brown’s wrap up. Earlier on she says that her research shows what we find in Zen: “Vulnerability is the source of joy.”

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