Summary: “Our anguish is not so much a result of what it is we are seeing, needing, experiencing what it is unfolding. It’s not the result of the divisions and the death and the negligence in meeting a global pandemic. It’s not just the experience of the isolation of the confusion of the unknowing. It truly is our desire to have it be some other way. Some other way than to simply pull ourselves up and lean-in to just what is unfolding before us. When we give our whole selves into the entire fabric of our lives: threads that are red and blue and black and white; threads that are golden and threads that are soiled – that are frayed but also that are whole. When we refuse the entirety of the fabric of our lives, that’s when we descend into a kind of madness that it seems impossible to return from” – Rev. Angel Kyodo williams, Sensei<br> In this dharma talk, Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Sensei talks wrapping ourselves completely in the Red Thread, or the soiled messiness of life. She also talks about directly meeting what is in front of us and of being prepared for anything and everything.<br> <br>
