Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52)

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KOAN:

For whom do you bathe and make yourself beautiful?
The cry of the cuckoo is calling you home.
Hundreds of flowers fall, yet her voice isn’t stilled,
even deep in jumbled mountains, it’s calling clearly.

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 52

Audio November 1, 2021

Fall Sesshin 2021: Dreams of the Ancestors with Jon Joseph

Jon Joseph

Koans

Alone and Poor (GG10), Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52), Hongzhi's Called Back from the Dream (MK34), Straight Hook Seeks Fish That Turn Away From Life (MK54)

Tags

2021 Fall Sesshin, Book of Serenity, death, dreams, Hongzhi, Metamorphosis, Miscellaneous Koan, Poet - Issa

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Audio

Jon Joseph gives the morning dharma talk about his dreams of the ancestors. A relationship continues beyond death. How is this so? It does not need to be explained, it only asks to be lived. As recorded in Fall Sesshin on Thursday morning, October 21, 2021.

38' 12"

Audio February 1, 2021

The Traveling Moon and the Cuckoo’s Call

Jon Joseph

Koans

Baling's Snow in a Silver Bowl (MK74a)(BCR13), Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52), Who Is Hearing?

Tags

cuckoo, Miscellaneous Koan, Moon, Winter Sesshin 2021

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Audio, Excerpt

Audio Excerpt: PZI Winter Sesshin: Jon Joseph reads poems and reminds us that even deep in jumbled mountains the cuckoo is calling us home. 2 minutes.

1' 26"

Misc September 29, 2020