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The Whole World Is Medicine (BCR87)

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KOAN:

Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other.
The whole world is medicine.
What am I?

—Blue Cliff Record Case 87 (PZI version)

See also: Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other,
transl. by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland

Audio December 3, 2019

How Is It That Sickness & Medicine Heal Each Other?

Jon Joseph

Koans
Sickness and Medicine (BCR87), The Whole World Is Medicine (BCR87), Who Am I?, Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
Tags
2017 January Sesshin
Category
Audio

The dark things shine as brightly as the bright light—we don’t need health to shine.

55' 22"