Eon Zen Senior Student and Practice Leader Lisa Gakyo Schaewe offers a talk on the transformative practice of facing our life just as it is. As humans, we often face times when we wish circumstances were different. As Zen practitioners, we make vows to not turn away. Can we expand our view and see that the very things that seem like obstacles are the path -- that everything is perfect and complete and workable, just as it is? Can we remember the vastness that is beyond the limits of our singular, contracted view?

At the end of the talk, Gakyo shares the song "Vast," from the album Angel Heart, recorded by her dharma brother Parker Coleman: