Ep. 64 - Skillful Means with Roshi Joan Halifax

Synchronicity with Noah Lampert

Noah Lampert

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🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is the truly amazing, Roshi Joan Halifax.

Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology in 1973 and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world.

I've known Roshi for a few years now from my work with her wonderful Zen Center, Upaya.

Upaya is a Sanskrit word which translates to skillful means something that Roshi truly embodies.

In our chat Joan brings up the importance of balancing engaged activism with non-attachment.

Combining her years of activism with her Zen sitting practice gives her a unique and valuable perspective on many the issues facing humanity and the world at-large.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Anger has within it wisdom, and that wisdom is clear seeing.
0:13.0	This is synchronicity.
0:19.0	This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity.
0:22.6	This is synchronicity.
0:24.6	This is synchronicity.
0:26.6	This is synchronicity.
0:28.6	You know, we all have had, and even a population of non-psychedelic people have had prophetic dreams, intimations, unlikely strings of coincidences, all of these sort of things.
0:48.6	These are experiences which cultures deny.
0:53.7	Cultures put in place, I'm sure you've heard this word, a paradigm.
0:59.0	And then what fits within the cultural paradigm is accentuated, stress, and what doesn't fit inside the cultural paradigm is denied, marginalized, argued against.
1:16.6	And we live at the end of a thousand-year binge on the philosophical position known as materialism. Welcome to Episode 64 of Synchronicity.
2:03.7	My guest, I was getting so excited, the first one in the new year,
2:06.5	happy 2017 to those listening at the time that this is actually the beginning of 2017.
2:12.6	My guest today is the lovely, wonderful, one of my favorite top three human beings I've met and known,
2:22.9	Roshi Joan Halifax.
2:25.1	Roshi Joan is, she's incredible.
2:28.4	Her life has truly been filled with so many rich experiences that it's really hard to fathom. So many interesting
2:36.4	connections I've had with Roshi throughout the years. I find out more seemingly like every
2:41.4	month or two. I find out another way we're connected. But Roshi is a Buddhist teacher,
2:46.4	Zen priest, Zen priest, anthropologist, and she's a pioneer in the field of end of life care.
2:53.2	She's also the founder, Abbott, and head teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New
2:58.4	Mexico.
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