Summary: Episode Description: In this talk, Matthew Kozan Palevsky uses the Jewish Holiday Yom Kippur, “Day of Atonement,” as an invitation to explore the notion of atonement within Buddhism. He first discusses how atonement is symbolized in Zen practice through forms such as the physical act of bowing, and through Upaya’s weekly chant of the “Verse of Atonement.” He continues with two stories recorded by Zen Master Eihei Dogen, both of which metaphorically explore the things that we atone for and how it is perhaps paradoxically, the very “detritus” of our lives, which we must come to acknowledge and accept, which consequently become the very means of our liberation. “What does the golden-scaled fish that goes through the net eat?”<br> <br>
