Karin Roshi takes up case 1 in The Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou’s Mu.
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Karin Roshi takes up case 1 in The Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou’s Mu.
Assistant teacher Bill Hamaker takes up Dogen’s Fukanzazengi, “A Universal Recommendation for Zazen.”
Dennis Sienko on case 33 in The Gateless Barrier, “Ma-tsu: Not Mind, Not Buddha.”
Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 4 in The Gateless Barrier, “Huo-an’s Beardless Barbarian.”
Peggy Metta Sheehan on trueing the wheel:
Often we come to practice because we feel something is fundamentally wrong: wrong with the world, wrong with us. And yes, this is dukkha, suffering, the sense that the wheel is off true. This is real: something is wrong, something is off; but it’s not us or the world. Equally we are called to practice because of what is right, or fundamentally true, always true, and something is listening, orienting to that.