Zhaozhou's No (GG1)(BS18)
KOAN:
Someone asked Zhaozhou, “Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?”
Zhaozhou said, “No.”
– Gateless Gate, Case 1, & Book of Serenity, Case 18
Video
January 11, 2020
The First Dog & ‘NO’
The great koan NO and dogs in our lives. ‘Reality’ is an edit of everything that is always really going on.
Video
June 26, 2017
Stories of NO
Rachel Boughton, Roshi offers a talk on what it’s like to live with the koan “Does a dog have Buddha nature? No.”