Day 7 - Closing Talk and Final Sharing (live replay)

Good morning everyone.

So here we are. It's the last morning.
So I'd like to talk a little bit about

what happens now and life and this
integration.

As with everything on this path this whole idea of integration is a bit of a paradox.

So I'm going to be sort of talking about the two dimensions of life and a little bit about

understanding this paradox. And I'll maybe start by something something

that Ramana Maharshi said a lot. He said you know this path requires vigilance...

a constant vigilance and this is something that is ongoing throughout life.

And it's an interesting sort of vigilance because it's not a vigilance to to do something.

It's a vigilance to remember the truth or to abide in the Self; to be as you truly are.

So there's this ongoing vigilance. There's a teaching... in the teachings of Dogen he says

that meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment, meditation is enlightenment.

You know by being, by just being, by just sitting, by unhooking from the mind you know it requires this constant vigilance.

So this is this is one aspect of the path; one aspect of integration.

And the counterpart to it is that everything is perfect as it is and nothing needs to be done.

Nothing needs to be achieved. And we can hold this paradox together.

It's this always being Buddha, always becoming Buddha.