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Dahui's Great Doubt

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KOAN:

When faith is a hundred percent, so too will be doubt. 
When doubt is a hundred percent, so too will be awakening.

—Dahui

Audio October 27, 2022

Fall Sesshin 2022: Dahui’s Journey, Bodhidharma’s Response, & the Marvelous Duke

John Tarrant

Koans
Dahui's Great Doubt, Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Free and Easy Wandering, Jiashan's State of Mind (EV99), What Is It You Lack (MK38e), Yunmen's East Mountain Walks on the Water (EV49)
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2022 Fall Sesshin, Bodhidharma, Dahui, Duke Zhi, emptiness, making a self, PZI Online Temple, uncertainty, Yuanwu
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Audio

Sesshin is an embrace which allows greater freedom to appear, and it is deeply mysterious. We don’t do it for a particular outcome or we would be constraining ourselves. We are free and easy wandering. In the koan, Emperor Wu wants a method and a first principle of the holy teaching. Bodhidharma answers, There isn’t a principle! You can’t confine it. Chan is trusting uncertainty, it is not something to be believed. Vows from Amanda Boughton, closing words from Tess Beasley. Complete session recorded on October 7, 2022.

72' 59"