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What Does Essential Nature Look Like? (MK28)

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KOAN:

a. The leaves of the lotus are round, round, rounder than a mirror.

b. The thorn of the water nut is sharp, sharp, sharper than an awl.

c. When the wind blows, the down on the pussy willows floats away.

d. When the rain beats down on the pear blossoms, a butterfly flies up.

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 28 (Dahui)

Audio June 11, 2020

What Is Your Response? A Butterfly Flies up!

Michelle Riddle

Koans
Teaching That Lasts a Lifetime (BCR14), What Does Essential Nature Look Like? (MK28)
Tags
Chan history, Covid, Dahui, destabilizing, interconnectedness, Joan Sutherland, Mazu, no fixed position, protests, risk, Shitou, unrest, Yunmen
Category
Audio

PZI Zen Online: The moment you are doing nothing the universe is doing you! What is your response? Responses, readings from Atlanta Mayor Bottoms, Yunmen, William Stafford, Joan Sutherland. Koans for troubled times. Each moment is new. Where is the source of your response? No guarantees, anything can happen. As recorded June 5, 2020.

80' 18"