PZI Teacher Archives

Doushuai’s Wild Places (MK73a)

KOAN:

People go to wild places to search for their true nature. When you do this, where is your true nature?

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 73a (1st of Doushuai’s Three Barriers)

Video September 3, 2024

New Directions at Year’s End: The Quest for the Grail

John Tarrant

The Grail Quest is deeper than most stories; it was told at a time of great change in Western culture and might help us now.

48' 13"
Video June 30, 2017

Koan Party

David Weinstein

“We go to wild places in search of our self-nature, looking in the darkness of the tall grasses of abandoned places. Now, honored ones, where is your self-nature when you are searching for your self-nature?”

David Weinstein talks about culture and ideas, and recounts stories of enlightening adventures.

23' 45"