Tim Burkett: Enlightenment is an Accident




Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast show

Summary: “Looking. Seeing. Peace.” Tim Burkett discusses the contents of his new book Enlightenment is an Accident in this richly informative and encouraging talk. Tim walks us through the three phases of practice — settling in, stumbling, and falling away — and offers us practices and teachings to navigate each phase and to help make us accident-prone. He especially reflects on the balance of line — our aspiration, why are we here?— and dot — just being here— practices. In the Q&amp;A, he offers his understanding of where the phrase “enlightenment is an accident and practice makes us accident-prone” comes from and of the term “enlightenment.”<br>