Summary: Episode Description: "Clouds and rocks exist together, but forget each other," says Genzan's scroll on the zendo wall. When our path is beset with rocks, how can we flow like water over and around? How can we fill exactly the container we're presented with in each moment -- flow humbly to the lowest level -- pool our resources and then surmount? Genzan explores hindrances (rocks) and some antidotes (water) in detail, and with frank personal reckoning. He employs systematic Buddhist lists to do so: five hindrances, eightfold path, Dogen's three minds. He explores the non-linear fashion in which the eight folds and the three minds mutually embed, encourage, and rely on one another, to help us flow past the rocks in our path. BIO: Genzan Quennell is a novice priest and the current Shuso at the Upaya Zen Center. A student of Roshi Joan Halifax, Genzan has been practicing zen since the early 1990s. He helps co-ordinate the activities of the Upaya Prison Project and assists with supporting the temple, residents and guest retreatants at Upaya.
