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Your Original Face before Your Parents Were Born (GG23)

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KOAN:

Quickly, without thinking good or evil, what is your original face before your parents were born?

—Gateless Gate, Case 23

Audio June 5, 2023

Zen Luminaries: Books & Tales with Ruth Ozeki

Jon Joseph

Koans
Huineng's Original Face (GG23), Your Original Face before Your Parents Were Born (GG23)
Tags
Book of Form & Emptiness, buddha nature, May 29 2023, original face, racism, time-being, writer Ruth Ozeki, writing, Zen Luminaries
Category
Audio

A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth was ordained in 2010 and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She currently teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of English Language and Literature. Conversation with Jon Joseph and Ruth Ozeki recorded May 29th, 2023.

91' 16"