Meditation: Sitting with Suffering, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson

Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

In this meditation Rhys leads us through an exploration of sitting with suffering because, as Rhys states, this is a lot of what sitting is. For all of us, for a fair bit of the time, this is what we’ll be doing when we practice Zazen: we’ll be sitting with some form of suffering, of discomfort, of dis-ease. Sometimes this suffering will be gross and obvious, like physical pain or emotional upset. At other times, perhaps a lot of the time, we’ll experience more subtle forms of suffering, like dissatisfaction, or striving, or boredom, or a sense of lack, or simply just discomfort in our bodies. Sometimes this can be very subtle; so subtle that it can take us a long time to even recognise that we’re experiencing it.