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November 14, 2023
Why Did Bodhidharma … ?
Jesse Cardin
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Bodhidharma and the Buddha-Heart Emperor and the Magical Duke (BCR1)(BS2), Bodhidharma Comes and Goes (MK43), Dongshan's Three Paths, Dongshan’s Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Longya's Why Bodhidharma Came from the West (BCR20), Mahasattva Fu Explains Things to Emperor Wu (BCR67), Xianglin's Why Bodhidharma Came from the West (BCR17)
What is the heart of any big question? We are swimming in a sea of uncertainty and the mind wants to fill in the blanks. Yet our questions are much smaller than what’s on offer, what’s possible as an answer—the whole universe might be doing something through me.
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April 28, 2020
Not Knowing Is Most Intimate – Delight in the Chaos of Life
John Tarrant in Fall Sesshin 2019. Being lost or between places is a fundamental human predicament. Being lost delivers you to yourself with an unknown outcome. The teacher takes away the student’s need to know what’s unfolding on their pilgrimage. Zen likes predicaments as signs that things want to change.