Eight Realizations of Great Beings (IV): Find Your Enthusiasm

fireworks: enthusiasm — Photo by Jingda Chen

When your enthusiasm for practice slows or seems to come to a halt, what can you do to spark it up again? If you’re unable to practice in a formal way, does it “still count” as practice?

In this threaded talk, Zuisei introduces the fourth realization in the Eight Realizations of Great Beings: the awareness that indolence is an obstacle to practice and, reframing it as “find your enthusiasm,” the sangha takes it up, each person sharing their personal experiences of “failure” and “laziness,” and the profound realization that in practice, nothing is ever extra, nothing is left out.

This talk was given by Zuisei Goddard.

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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (IV): Find Your Enthusiasm