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Being in the Bath of Awakening [EP 24]
Update: 2025-10-01
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What does it mean to be in the bath of awakening?
We somehow always have a reluctance to immerse ourselves completely, which is the very thing that holds it at bay.
In this episode, Roshi Jess Cardin talks listeners through another water koan from The Blue Cliff Record in which the teacher recounts the "subtle touch reveals the light in everything."
What do you hold in reserve? What keeps you feeling outside of things or difficult to reach? Listen from deep in sesshin.
"Once I am in the bath, I can look back and see that I was always in the bath." - Jesse Cardin.
Learn more about this episode of Meeting the Inconceivable at https://www.pacificzen.org/24
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