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Dahui's Great Doubt

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KOAN:

When faith is a hundred percent, so too will be doubt. 
When doubt is a hundred percent, so too will be awakening.

—Dahui

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Dharma Theme March 29, 2023

Dharma Theme: Not Getting It – Doing It Wrong

PZI Teachers

Koans
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), Dahui's Great Doubt, Fayan's Students Roll Up the Blinds (GG26), Shoushan's Three Phrase BS76
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Bodhidharma, Dahui, Dharma Theme, doing it wrong, Fayan, getting it wrong, getting lost, great doubt, not getting it, not having the wrong life, not knowing, scorn
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Dharma Theme, Text

The Zen approach is not about avoiding mistakes but bringing them to the path. Making a mistake opens the tenderness in us and can be more helpful than not making one. Then, the mistakes are not mistakes.

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Audio October 27, 2022

Fall Sesshin 2022: Dahui’s Journey, Bodhidharma’s Response, & the Marvelous Duke

John Tarrant

Koans
Dahui's Great Doubt, Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Free and Easy Wandering, Jiashan's State of Mind (EV99), What Is It You Lack (MK38e), Yunmen's East Mountain Walks on the Water (EV49)
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Bodhidharma, Dahui, Duke Zhi, emptiness, Fall Sesshin 2022, making a self, PZI Online Temple, uncertainty, Yuanwu
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Sesshin is an embrace which allows greater freedom to appear, and it is deeply mysterious. We don’t do it for a particular outcome or we would be constraining ourselves. We are free and easy wandering. In the koan, Emperor Wu wants a method and a first principle of the holy teaching. Bodhidharma answers, There isn’t a principle! You can’t confine it. Chan is trusting uncertainty, it is not something to be believed. Vows from Amanda Boughton, closing words from Tess Beasley. Complete session recorded on October 7, 2022.

72' 59"