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For Halifax, practice outweighs theory. Real understanding comes from doing—sitting with suffering, tending to the dying, or sitting in meditation—where Buddhist ideas like impermanence and dependent arising become lived experience. On silent retreats at Upaya, students engage in zazen, a practice that emphasizes radical openness and presence rather than intellectual exercises. The structured routines create a supportive framework, yet the true transformation arises from simply being present, allowing uncertainty and “not-knowing” to deconstruct habitual perceptions of reality.
In short: Zen isn’t learned through theory but through disciplined, open-ended practice that lets experience itself reshape the self.
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