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Learning Speech & Silence (GG24)
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
Dharma Theme
August 1, 2023
Dharma Theme: Great Silence
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.