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…“The true person has no rank.” [recites] The true woman, the true man has no rank. And there’s a whole thing in Zen that there are no insiders or outsiders,…

…in this cycle.) The Koan: The True Person of No Rank There is a true person of no rank who is constantly coming and going from the portals of your…

…true woman, true man, no rank. There’s no gender in the original, just true person…the true one with no rank. And so …and then it becomes this marvelous thing, and…

…a thousand-mile horse.” That’s how Linji was then described. And Linji said these great things like, “There is a true person (a true woman, a true man) of no rank…

…I fell asleep, I couldn’t say anything. Her name was something like ‘True World’ or ‘True Boundary’ or something—there was something really true about her. [laughs] She did this—and she…

…it. And then it makes us skeptical about it. Can I really not stand this person I don’t even know? Or this person who hurt me five minutes ago or…

…finding out what I really love, finding out if that thing that I can’t bear, if it’s really true that I can’t bear it or it’s really true that I…

…with an angry person in an even smaller space, which is your mind, and which has become unsafe territory. The person who cut you off is, of course, not affected…

…it isn’t. And that’s that whole thing about the person who we hired to be our body-double, what we call ourselves, the person we hired to walk around and pretend…

…person who paraded around was often the most unlikely, ditzy person. It wasn’t the guy working really hard in samurai Zen, it was somebody who didn’t seem to take life…

…matter of assessing his experience was bigger than your experience or somebody else’s experience, because we know that’s not, can’t be true. None of that ranking mind is ever true….

…heart opens in an unforced way, you realize—”Oh, the person I couldn’t stand is wonderful, and that person I couldn’t stand, fundamentally was because I couldn’t stand me—and I’m not…

…to see that in the world you can move around, and if this is your true face—you look around the temple at people’s faces—that’s your true face. But then, if…

…This famous old teacher, once somebody asked him, and he said, “Yes.” And somebody else – another person asked him to explain about Buddha nature, and the next person who…

…don’t really care [so much], you know. And we find that, Oh—we can speak what’s true in our hearts, we can discover what’s true, and we can say things that…

…are really in the way of the true discovery process. The true discovery process is really showing up. It’s a more radical thing. It’s not saying I’ll show up and…

…says a true woman or true person has no rank, like that. “Singing and dancing are the voice of the Way.” The law of the Dharma is singing and dancing….

…of our actions will be; they always escape from us. Which is why occasionally we’ll get an intelligent person who takes the literal view about things. But I think that’s…

…regretting then and that’s true. Now I’m actually sort of free because whoa, I’m here. And I may still be regretting, then that would be true. It was an interesting…

…everything you see reflects back. And we see, oh—the leaf, the person’s glowing face, the person’s scowling face, the person who’s better than me, the person who’s worse than me,…

…but I was regretting then and that’s true. Now I’m actually sort of free because whoa, I’m here. And I may still be regretting, then that would be true. It…

…every person, we’re the sick person, we’re the wife of the sick person, we’re the person holding the sick person, we’re the person singing for the healing ceremony, the person…

…Wisdom and the person with a sword, riding a lion—and that’s the person of emptiness. So that when everything we’re holding onto disappears—there’s the whole universe. It’s the great lion….

…in mind. It’s painful to let go of our original intentions but, eventually, they are in the way because we have been changed, we are no longer the person who…

…compassion, the goddess of compassion, Kuan Yin, taking the form of the goddess of compassion, find shelter for the homeless person. Why can’t the person who is very strong lift…