Violence against African-Americans, reprisals against police officers and seemingly endless war provoke Nyogen Roshi to deliver a powerful talk about Samsara–the realm of suffering driven by greed, anger and ignorance of the fundamental unity of all things. Weaving a reading of a koan about the nature of compassion into his talk, Roshi arrives at the inevitable conclusion: “The insanity will only stop when you begin to wake up.”
