Finding the Emptiness of No Self…Beyond “Me”…Beyond Dreams…Being Humbleness

Founding teacher of the Buddhist Sanshin Zen Community, Shohaku Okumura talks about the Buddhist practice of emptiness, otherwise known as humbleness. Okumura describes his experience of becoming physically challenged and unable to practice zazen as he could previously, and discovering something truly remarkable. Finding the Emptiness of No Self…Beyond “Me”…Beyond Dreams…Being Humbleness is the eighth module from an interview in January, 2026. Many thanks to the Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana: https://www.sanshinji.org/ Subscribe to Interior Mythos Journeys: https://www.youtube.com/c/Interiormyt... The cinematic art forms of Interior Mythos Journeys are an effort to reacquaint us with the practices and exercises that have the possibility of delivering us into an encounter with the timeless deep place that is forever with us, but that we have become very skilled at not noticing. Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum Scientific, and Universal Reality in which we all actually live. Learn more at https://interiormythos.com/ As we solitarily and collectively claim the force of a relevant contemporary mythos, we are delivered to the possibility of life-lived-in-depth, the possibility of authentic life. This is the path beneath the surface. The Transformative Encounter: The Practice of Contemplation In the current age this transformative encounter, as well as the practices that deliver us to this encounter and the personal connection that flows from this encounter, is seldom the focus of our lives. Many of us wander disoriented through life, often on a self-destructive path, in a world seen, understood, and measured primarily by the external environment. We are disconnected from the Connecting Myth. We are disconnected from the interior depth to which the Connecting Myth might deliver us. Ironically, we have come to understand myth as a lie rather than a symbolic and metaphoric gateway to a deeper truth. #interiormythosjourneys #zazen #buddha #buddhism #bodhisattva