Shohaku Okumura A Good for Nothing Life
Channel: Interior Mythos Journeys
Date: 2020-06-23

Explore the practice of zazen (sitting meditation) and Soto Zen Buddhism with Abbot Shohaku Okumra and hear why just sitting, facing a wall, transforms the lives of those who dare to do nothing.  Watch this new interview next:  https://youtu.be/wo2K4kiKItE

Abbot Shohaku Okumra was interviewed by Interior Mythos Journeys in April, 2017 at the Sanshin Zen Community:  https://www.sanshinji.org/ Please Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys:  https://www.youtube.com/c/Interiormythos?sub_confirmation=1

Short Clips from this interview can be found here:

Zazen is Good for Nothing:  https://youtu.be/CM8ZZi8qBqI
We Exist as Interconnectedness:  https://youtu.be/5CdXex_0ObU
Wake Up to Reality: https://youtu.be/lRyBO_olp2QY
Thinking is the Problem, Let Go:  https://youtu.be/pzEZK4geKTk
Experience and Language - Not So Simple: https://youtu.be/N077-o6hEOs
The Fiction of Time:  https://youtu.be/CN-CHoMgilA

Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum Scientific, and Universal Reality in which we all actually live.  Learn more at https://interiormythos.com/

As we solitarily and collectively claim the force of a relevant contemporary mythos, we are delivered to the possibility of life-lived-in-depth, the possibility of authentic life. This is the path beneath the surface.

The Transformative Encounter: The Practice of Contemplation

In the current age this transformative encounter, as well as the practices that deliver us to this encounter and the personal connection that flows from this encounter, is seldom the focus of our lives. Many of us wander disoriented through life, often on a self-destructive path, in a world seen, understood, and measured primarily by the external environment. We are disconnected from the Connecting Myth. We are disconnected from the interior depth to which the Connecting Myth might deliver us. Ironically, we have come to understand myth as a lie rather than a symbolic and metaphoric gateway to a deeper truth.

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