A wonderful talk by Sobun Katherine Thanas, former Abbess of the Santa Cruz Zen Center who left this visible world last year. Thanks to the Santa Cruz Zen Center and SweepingZen for posting this. So clear, simple.

As a side note, at the end, she says she leans to a practice of the body over the mind. Some people are so inclined I feel. and are into the physicality, although I do not lean to any pole. I recently wrote that, for me, Zazen is thoroughly 100% a practice of the body ... thoroughly 100% a practice of mind ... all such that, Zazen is thoroughly 100% practice of body-mind dropped away.