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Liberating This And That

Liberating This And That

Simon Daiō Sekku Harrison, Senior Monastic

Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper, New York, Wednesday 06/24/2026

Invoking the Diamond Sutra’s verse on impermanence in “all this fleeting world,” monastic Daiō explores how the mind’s expectations and conditioned habits cloud our understanding of all reality, how we react without truly seeing things as they are. How do we stop, deepen our attention, and liberate all “this and that” we formerly fixed in our minds? How do we see that, even when we doubt our capacity, we’re already flying.

 

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