Rev. Clairissa reflects on the subject of “Habits.” What are my customary thoughts, my ways of speaking, and my usual manner of acting? In this life of mine, ever subject to impermanence, how may my own habitual ways align with the Great Way which leads to liberation from suffering?

She begins with a quote from Great Master Dōgen’s “On Seeking One’s Master Far and Wide” (Henzan) from the Shōbōgenzō, a Dharma talk originally offered at Dōgen’s mountain hermitage, in 1244.