The Zen Studies Podcast
The Zen Studies Podcast
Domyo Burk
86 - Samvega and Pasada: Two Buddhist Emotions Indispensable for Practice
21 minutes Posted Jan 18, 2019 at 1:55 am.
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Samvega and pasada keep our practice alive and on course. Samvega is spiritual urgency arising three things: A sense of distress and disillusionment about life as it's usually lived, a sense of our own complicity and complacency, and determination to find a more meaningful way. Contrary to society at large, Buddhism encourages the cultivation of samvega - as long as you balance it with pasada, a serene confidence that arises when you find a reliable way to address samvega.