The Elephant In The Zazen Room

The audio version of the essay with the same title written by Jundo Cohen, founder and guiding teacher of Treeleaf Sangha. In ordinary life, our daily minds resemble a mad circus, maybe a chaotic jungle. We react to the elephants passing through our awareness, jumping on, leaping from one to the next, pulling their tails, prodding them with a stick, often tangled in their trunks. Jundo explains how in Zazen, the ¨elephants¨ are tamed ... just by leaving them be, letting them pass by unmolested and without concern.