How to access your spiritual power amidst overwhelming grief and shame?

How can a sword made of paper help you when you are being attacked? How can we fight oppression when we feel powerless? How can we begin to see why the universe brought us alive as a human in this exact time and place?

In this talk given on the last day of Feb 2024 Zen retreat, Sensei Kanko powerfully shows us a clear path to access our spiritual power against all the odds and make a difference. How is it possible that almost none of the Buddhist teachers want to speak out and demand the stopping of mass killings? How is it possible that regardless of how much we sit, we can still feel shamed and powerless to act outside of the cushion? Is the traditional way of practicing Buddhist meditation enough? Kanko discusses how our sitting practice and healing from our childhood trauma and shamed inner parts can give us access to spiritual power.  We who consider ourselves to be "small" or "weak" can become a person who can overcome an assaulter, a group of white supremacists, and our personal difficulties with a paper sword. With stories from US Navy seals, the Palestinian crisis, and Asia to the ones illustrating the need for personal safety and wellbeing, Kanko dives into questions of primal importance. We are living in very difficult times but even when we feel we are powerless and completely at a loss there are ways to continue walking the path the universe has laid out ahead of us and make a difference.

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