PZI Teacher Archives
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Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52)
KOAN:
For whom do you bathe and make yourself beautiful?
The cry of the cuckoo is calling you home.
Hundreds of flowers fall, yet her voice isn’t stilled,
even deep in jumbled mountains, it’s calling clearly.
—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 52
(from Dongshan’s Five Ranks, second cycle)
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August 24, 2023
Lazy Sunday Afternoons Under the Rose Apple Tree, Part 3 of 4
The care and feeding of a self is a 24/7 job. The burden of certainty constrains things and makes them heavy—even something as well-intentioned as undying love.
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September 18, 2019
What Do You Want?
John Tarrant gives a talk during the Summer 2017 sesshin. July 20, 2017.