Finding your place where you are
Update: 2025-10-20
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In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during Fall Practice Period at Upaya, Sensei Monshin explores the meaning of dharma position. Building from Dogen’s Genjokoan, she explains dharma position as an expression of the inseparability of self and reality—“this intersection of the individual and universal.” Each being, she reminds us, is perfectly situated where it is; practice does not move us toward awakening but reveals that we are already dwelling within it. Quoting Dogen, “Each thing, when it’s completely and fully what it is, manifests the absolute,” Monshin invites us to consider how practice unfolds through alignment with this inherent fullness. We are encouraged to embody our own dharma position by participating fully in the dynamic functioning of the world—to stop and rest within the living moment of arising and passing. In this view, practice is the continuous realization of action, aliveness, and belonging.
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