Everyday Buddhism 104 - BONUS - Purposeless Purpose

Everyday Buddhism 104 - BONUS - Purposeless Purpose

Author: Wendy Shinyo Haylett January 26, 2024 Duration: 7:29

This week, over at my new premium Substack podcast, Words From My Teachers, I released Episode 6, continuing readings from the book, The Center Within by Rev. Gyomay Kubose. In the episode I read the following essays: Middle Way, Water, Purposeless Purpose, No Mind, and How the Buddha Taught.

As a special bonus episode for the Everyday Buddhism podcast, I am sharing the reading of the essay Purposeless Purpose. It's a wonderful essay to reflect on, as they all are in The Center Within, but I'm releasing it here on the Everyday Buddhism podcast as a companion piece to Episode 103.


 
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