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The Sieve (MK58)

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KOAN:

A teacher said, “It’s like filling a sieve with water.”

The student thought about this for some time, but didn’t understand. The teacher took a sieve and they went to the sea.

The student poured water into the sieve and it poured out again.
“How do you do it?” she asked.

The teacher threw the sieve out into the ocean, where it floated for a moment and then sank.

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 58

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Dharma Theme October 25, 2023

Dharma Theme: The Storehouse of Treasures Opens by Itself – 2023 Online Fall Retreat

John Tarrant, PZI Cantor & Musicians, PZI HOPs, PZI Teachers

Koans
Dogen’s Storehouse of Treasures (MK66), Sickness and Medicine (BCR87), Sixteen Bodhisattvas Take a Bath (BCR78), The Coin Lost in the River (MK64), The Sieve (MK58), Yunmen's Light (BCR86), Yunmen's Midnight
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2023 Fall Retreat, being lost, bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Path, Dharma Theme, in the bath, lost and found, September 27–30 2023, The Storehouse of Treasures Opens by Itself, vessel of sesshin
Category
Dharma Theme, Text

Here you will find links to dharma talk audios from PZI’s Online Fall Retreat: The Storehouse of Treasures Opens by Itself with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers. Includes music from Amaryllis Fletcher, Amanda Boughton & Jordan McConnell. Recorded in the PZI Digital Temple, September 27–30, 2023.

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