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Learning Speech & Silence (GG24)

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KOAN:

A student asked Fengxue, “Both speech and silence are concerned with sameness and difference. How can we transcend them?”

Fengxue said, “I constantly think of Jiangnan in March, where partridges are chirping among hundreds of fragrant blossoms.”

—Gateless Gate Case 24

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Dharma Theme August 1, 2023

Dharma Theme: Great Silence

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Bodhidharma and the Buddha-Heart Emperor and the Magical Duke (BCR1)(BS2), Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Learning Speech & Silence (GG24), The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6), The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
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carried in the dark, darkness, emptiness, great silence, mystery, silence, stillness, the absolute, The Dao, uncertainty, Valley Spirit
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Dharma Theme, Text

Have confidence: just go into the silence. The absolute is always there. Inside it all, there’s freedom. There’s no situation where infinity is not there.

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