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Yunmen's Light (BCR86)
KOAN:
Yunmen taught, “Everybody has a light inside. When you’re looking for it, you can’t see; it’s obscured in the dimness. What is this light that everybody has?”
He himself answered, “The kitchen pantry, the entrance gate.”
Then he said, “It’s better to have nothing than to have something good.”
—Blue Cliff Record Case 86
(transl. by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland)
Video
October 25, 2023
Fall Retreat: Closing Night – Lost in the Bath Together
The first phase of practice is being lost—allowing that. You are out of the known territory. It is key to know we don’t control the process. When you are ‘in it,’ don’t try to go beyond it. Enjoy and embrace the lostness. Transformation happens in the vessel. This is why we have a retreat.