PZI Teacher Archives

  • Allison Atwill
  • David Parks
  • David Weinstein
  • Eduardo Fuentes
  • Jesse Cardin
  • John Tarrant
  • Jon Joseph
  • Michelle Riddle
  • Tess Beasley

Find Something That Is Not Medicine

View All Koans

KOAN:

Find something that is not medicine.

—From Blue Cliff Record Case 87: The Whole World Is Medicine

Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other.
The whole world is medicine.
What am I?

—Yunmen

Video April 1, 2023

We’ve Never Lacked for Salt & Sauce

John Tarrant

Koans
Find Something That Is Not Medicine, Mazu's Make Yourself a Raft, Salt and Sauce, What Is This? (BCR51), Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
Tags
Chateaubriand, coping, lack, loss, March 12 2023, Mazu, poet Li Bai, Sunday Talks, Sunday Zen
Category
Video

The salt and sauce is the invisible component of practice, of life. It is the place in which we are held when disaster strikes, or there’s chronic illness, or you find yourself at the Mad Hatter’s tea party. You might not need what you think you do to get by. What is salt and sauce for you? We can be at peace in the midst of the madness of events – this is our main work in zen. Music for meditation from Micheal Wilding on flute and then on drum. Complete Sunday Zen session from March 12, 2023. 

70' 55"