For Another (MK50)
KOAN:
Dongshan was sweeping one day when someone said to
him, “Work, work, work—all you do is work.”
Dongshan replied, “I do it for another.”
“Why don’t you get that other to do it for himself?”
“Because he has no hands.”
—PZI Miscellanous Koans, Case 50
Video
June 26, 2017
The Teachers Speak
On Friday evening, the last night of the October 2015 sesshin, all the teachers weigh in.