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Dongshan's Five Ranks (5th)
KOAN:
Poem 5
Not deciding it is or it isn’t
Do you have the courage to be at peace with it?
Everyone wants to leave the endless changes
But when we finish bending and fitting our lives
We come and sit by the fire.
—from the Record of Dongshan, The Five Ranks (5th Rank)
Audio
September 20, 2023
Lazy Summer Afternoons Under the Rose Apple Tree, Part 4 of 4
Even a delicious rest must end. The Dao suffers no plans but its own, and our bodhisattva path requires that we bring it back into the world. In Zen, the path goes on and on—we find more ways to grow the ways we love our lives. We are not trying to reach a place of endless tranquillity.