Episode
Resonance - In Touch with the Root of Compassion
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- Zen Mind
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- Mar 19, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3080
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Summary
This talk is from the Practice Course "Developing Embodiment," originally offered live at the Boulder Zen Center and now available as a self-paced course. It challenges a common assumption, that ethics is a luxury, something we attend to once our basic needs are met. Drawing on evolutionary perspectives, the talk suggests the opposite: cooperation and care are existential facts for human beings, built into our very survival as a species. Compassion, then, is not a virtue we impose on ourselve...