PZI Teacher Archives

The Diamond Sutra (MK65b)

KOAN:

Abiding nowhere, your heart and mind come forth.

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 65b (Diamond Sutra)

Video June 18, 2019

Abiding Nowhere, the Heart-Mind Comes Forth

Rachel Boughton

A Zen ancestor was gathering wood and heard a line being recited that struck him. “What was that again?” he asked. “Oh, it was just something I heard up north in a temple.” So he went to study up north. January 19, 2014.

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Video June 2, 2019

Abiding with Koans, the Mind Comes Forth

Rachel Boughton

Rachel Boughton, Director of the PZI Santa Rosa Center, how-to talk on working with zen koans.

A Zen ancestor was gathering wood and heard a line being recited that struck him. “What was that again?” he asked. “Oh, it was just something I heard up north in a temple.” So he went to study up north.

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Video October 24, 2018
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Video July 6, 2017

The Mind Arises From Nowhere in Particular

David Weinstein

David furthers our investigation of the mind meditating with the koan, “Abiding nowhere the mind comes forth.” The mind arising from nowhere in particular, our thoughts arising from nowhere in particular and disappearing into nowhere in particular. January 21, 2014.

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