What is There to Hold on to?
Summary
River, a priest at Mountain Rain, explores the teachings of Sojun Mel Weitzman on the dynamic unity of letting go and taking up. Drawing from Weitzman’s book *Seeing One Thing Through*, the talk uses personal stories of heartbreak and surgery to illustrate how zazen transforms suffering into wisdom. River emphasizes that practice is not about escaping pain but embracing it as fuel for compassion, balancing passive acceptance with active effort to navigate life’s impermanence with grounded stability.
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