Master Dogen said: ‘The flower petals fall though we love them, the weeds grow though we hate them - that is just how it is.’

(Wisdom of the Zen Masters by Irmgard Schloegl)

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In this podcast:

• The difference in meaning between the Buddha’s liberation and political liberation & freedom.

• The link between picking & choosing and attachment to self and between self & fear

• How attachment to self is attachment to restriction of movement and to life.

• The paradox of the practice of restraint leading to freedom from the restriction of self.