Blooming Buddhas (Zen Gardening) w/ Helena Harvilicz

Angel City Zen Center - Beginners Only Podcast

“Plants are actually great meditation teachers. They really know how to stay put even in the face of danger.” - Helena Harvilicz

Crowd favorite Helena returns with all the dharma she dug up in her time as ACZC’s gardener, along with some words of wisdom from Dogen’s “Insentient Preach the Dharma. Are our plants and inanimate objects really whispering sweet truths to us like they did to Buddha under that tree? Is this a classic tale of setbacks in practice that lead to enlightening revelation? Or is it the story of a feeble-minded woman facing the horrors of old age and death who gets tricked into paying to do yard work by a somewhat boring cult (her words not ours…)?? Find out here!