Gay Pride and Our Ordinary Life - Liên Shutt

Can we find meaning and pride in our ordinary lives? In this talk, Liên Shutt contrasts the extravagant events in our lives with the everyday moments and asks us to consider if we can drop our expectations of how things should be and instead allow them to exist just as they are. This is the definition of Buddhist wisdom or Prajña, which translates as "knowledge of things as they are." She quotes Sekkei Harada Roshi in "The Essence of Zen:" "Things that we can see and hear do not exist b...