Rev. Clairissa explores how our practice of seated meditation means becoming still, flexible, and clear in all conditions. Through this, we help ourselves and all beings to the balance beyond the opposites, joining in the endless flow of all existence.

She begins by reciting Meditation Master Wanshi Shōgaku’s poem “My Friendly Advice for Seated Meditation” from Chapter 26 of Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō, translated by Rev. Hubert Nearman.