Open the Door

The Buddha

It’s just cold. In one of his talks on the Satipatthana Sutra, the core discourse on meditation in the Sutras (don’t ask me which one), Joseph Goldstein reports on returning from a lovely visit to the Caribbean, where the weather was idyllic, to Boston in winter, where the temperature was below 20 degrees Fahrenheit and snow was falling. “It made absolutely no difference.”