Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 11/20/2020
Senior monastic Shoan delivers an impassioned and intimately relatable teaching on our Ango theme of the Bodhisattva path. Speaking from a place of inspiring humility she dives into the predictable stumbling blocks on our path to liberation. At the core, we are often tripped up by the anxiety of the perceived challenge, and the fear of vulnerability. But with piercing wisdom and unbounded compassion Shoan shows us that these mental afflictions can be released. Simply by allowing our experience to be, as it is, we become tender and receptive to reality. Seeing reality, our frantic attempts to protect our “self” begins to dissolve.
