Episode
Noticing with Subtlety
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- Zen Mind
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- Feb 19, 2026
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- 2964
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Summary
This talk was given as a practice encouragement before entering the silence of a Weekend Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center. It highlights aspects of zazen relevant for any practitioner. It begins with three observations: we cannot think our way to the fruits of practice; awakening is an accident, though meditation makes us accident-prone; and many meditators, after an initial period of dramatic transformation, watch their practice plateau. So what do we do? The suggestion is to notice experie...