Thank you so much for doing this AMA. I hope to do one of your retreats this year and meet you in person. There isn't a zen/chan center near me so I don't have access to a teacher other than the texts.
1) Do you ever do any type of video chat based interview/checkins with your students?
2) How do you establish the student-teacher relationship in chan, especially when you live several hours driving distance away?
3) Do you think it's possible to reach complete or deep realization(s) on your own by studying the texts and meditating without an official teacher, i.e. without living under or having regular access to a teacher?
These are the main struggles in my practice. I worry that I'm truly "getting it" since I'm not able to have my experiences verified, or that I'm going down the wrong path, etc.
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Thank you so much for doing this AMA. I hope to do one of your retreats this year and meet you in person. There isn't a zen/chan center near me so I don't have access to a teacher other than the texts.
1) Do you ever do any type of video chat based interview/checkins with your students?
2) How do you establish the student-teacher relationship in chan, especially when you live several hours driving distance away?
3) Do you think it's possible to reach complete or deep realization(s) on your own by studying the texts and meditating without an official teacher, i.e. without living under or having regular access to a teacher?
These are the main struggles in my practice. I worry that I'm truly "getting it" since I'm not able to have my experiences verified, or that I'm going down the wrong path, etc.
Thank you!
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