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186 - Making Peace with Ghosts: Unresolved Karma and the Sejiki (Segaki) Festival
186 - Making Peace with Ghosts: Unresolved Karma and the Sejiki (Segaki) Festival
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Nov 12, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
The annual Buddhist ceremony of “feeding the hungry ghosts,” or Sejiki, offers rich mythological imagery as a teaching. Metaphorically, a “ghost” is anything painful or difficult which continues to haunt the present although its causes lie in the past. Sejiki and its surrounding mythology encourages us to make peace with our ghosts: We acknowledge them, set appropriate boundaries, make an offering, and hope that, over time, the ghosts will be able to partake of some healing and liberating Dharma.
Released:
Nov 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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