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?
– 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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September 12, 2020
Transcription: Vast Emptiness – Complete Session as Recorded
John Tarrant
Koans
A Donkey Sees a Well (BS52), Dongshan Sick, Dongshan's Each Stitch, Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Someone with no Shadow or Form Is Drawing the Water, Yunmen Says Something in Response (BCR14), Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
Transcription: Series 2 Class 6 – Vast Emptiness. The entire session as recorded July 25 2020. Please do not share this curriculum record.
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August 14, 2020
The Spirit of Love and Joy and Play in Koans
So, value the sort of play, and as I said, see if you can break the koan—the koan will be amused. And see it, and let it—let it into your heart. And see what comes, or follow it around, or have it follow you. And finally you’ll find, you’ll realize, “Oh, I’m here. I’m free.”