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Learning Speech & Silence (GG24)
KOAN:
A student asked Fengxue, “Both speech and silence are concerned with sameness and difference. How can we transcend them?”
Fengxue said, “I constantly think of Jiangnan in March, where partridges are chirping among hundreds of fragrant blossoms.”
—Gateless Gate Case 24
Dharma Theme: Great Silence
Have confidence: just go into the silence. The absolute is always there. Inside it all, there’s freedom. There’s no situation where infinity is not there.
Learning Speech & Silence
PZI Zen Online Audio: Awakening in Zen is coming to realize the deepest relationship of interdependence we have with all things. And when we realize we are not alone, we feel supported and free. The world becomes a place not of opposition, but of alliance. As recorded April 13 2020.