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Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52)
KOAN:
For whom do you bathe and make yourself beautiful?
The cry of the cuckoo is calling you home.
Hundreds of flowers fall, yet her voice isn’t stilled,
even deep in jumbled mountains, it’s calling clearly.
—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 52
(from Dongshan’s Five Ranks, second cycle)
Lazy Summer Afternoons Under the Rose Apple Tree, Part 3 of 4
The care and feeding of a self is a 24/7 job. The burden of certainty constrains things and makes them heavy—even something as well-intentioned as undying love.
Fall Sesshin 2021: Dreams of the Ancestors with Jon Joseph
Jon Joseph gives the morning dharma talk about his dreams of the ancestors. A relationship continues beyond death. How is this so? It does not need to be explained, it only asks to be lived. As recorded in Fall Sesshin on Thursday morning, October 21, 2021.
The Traveling Moon and the Cuckoo’s Call
Audio Excerpt: PZI Winter Sesshin: Jon Joseph reads poems and reminds us that even deep in jumbled mountains the cuckoo is calling us home. The cuckoo is the voice of the Dao. 2 minutes.