Kathie Fischer: Accepting Things as They Are: First Day of Sesshin – Fall Practice Period 2022 (6 of 11)

Summary: Sensei Kathie Fischer  gives the first Dharma talk of Upaya’s Fall Practice Period 2022 sesshin. She generously shares her experience and wisdom with us on sitting a sesshin, including how to practice with emotional turbulence, repressed thoughts and feelings rising to the surface, physical pain, the formal eating ritual of oryoki, and the much needed discipline of rest.<br> She encourages us to face ourselves, even those parts of ourselves that we’d rather look away from, with a sense of patience, acceptance, and, if possible, even gratitude and wonder. Wonder is not something that just happens to us, Kathie reminds us. It’s a practice. It’s a choice.<br> To access the <a href="https://www.upaya.org/resources/fall-practice-period-2022-resource-page/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">resources page for this program, please sign up by clicking here</a>.<br> <br> For Program/Series description and to access the entire series, please click on the link below:<br> <a title="Upaya Podcast Series: FALL PRACTICE PERIOD 2022: Cultivating the Empty Field" href="https://www.upaya.org/2022/10/upaya-podcast-series-fpp-2022-cultivating-empty-field/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Upaya Podcast Series: SPRING PRACTICE PERIOD 2022: Cultivating the Empty Field</a><br>