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A Thousand Mountains (MK13)
KOAN:
a. A thousand mountains are covered with snow.
b. Why is one peak not white?
—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 13
Dharma Theme
July 26, 2023
Dharma Theme: Landscape as Teacher
PZI Teachers
Koans
A Thousand Mountains (MK13), Blue Dragon's Cave (BCR3), Changsha Wandering in the Mountains (BCR36), Dancing Mountains (MK5), How Do You Cross a Stream?, Ten Thousand Feet Down (MK27), The Coin Lost in the River (MK64), The Fire Across the River (MK2), The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6), The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
When we wake up and see our true place in the universe, it’s as if we have stepped out of a landscape and then we’re willing to step back into it. We appear and go back into the brocade. Then, we have our true place in the universe.
Dharma Theme
March 22, 2023
Dharma Theme: In the Wild – Mountain Koans & Poems
PZI Teachers
Koans
A Thousand Mountains (MK13), Be a Tiger in the Mountains, Changsha Wandering in the Mountains (BCR36), Dancing Mountains (MK5), Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52), Going to Wild Places (MK73), Silver Mountain and Iron Cliff (BCR 57), The Green Mountain Walks About (BS41), Tortoise Mountain Wakes Up, Yunmen's East Mountain Walks on the Water (EV49)
Eventually you come to a place where you can’t go on and you can’t go back. You have arrived at the base of cliffs; you can’t scale them, you can’t get around them, and there’s no handy tunnel through them. It’s a daunting place—that’s the point of it. And when you arrive here your life and your journey can become your own.