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Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
KOAN:
Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other. The whole world is medicine. What am I?
—The Blue Cliff Record, Case 87
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October 8, 2020
1 The Whole World Is Medicine – The Zenosaurus Course In Koans
Zenosaurus Curriculum 1: When the Buddha was growing up, his father kept four sights from him. The forbidden sights were a sick person, an old person, a corpse, and a pilgrim dedicated to the meditation path.
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August 14, 2020
Spirit of Love, Joy & Play in Koans
Value a sort of play and see if you can break the koan—the koan will be amused. And see it and let it into your heart, and see what comes, or follow it around, or have it follow you. And finally you’ll realize, “Oh, I’m here. I’m free.”