Isabel Mathy, Campus Life Reporter
• April 10, 2025
Genjo Roshi, the abbot of the Chobo-ji Rinzai Zen Temple in Seattle, guided audience members through a conversation about the Noble Eightfold Path, meditation and Buddhism. Connecting guests from the college...
o enter a situation without baggage–the arbitrary social standards, past regrets, desired outcomes, and contrived ideas, scripts and seemingly preordained roles that we have adopted to get us where we want to be–is to clear a path towards self-actualization.
To do this, I have acknowledged that suffering awaits all of us in the form of death. Our personal mortalities and those that surround us ensure its role in the course of existence. I could be enjoying a gorgeous Pacific sunset as a coconut falls and bumps my life away, or punching a criminal vending machine before it crushes my hopes and dreams.
