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Silver Mountain and Iron Cliff (BCR 57)
KOAN:
Before you’ve seen through, it all seems like a silver mountain, like an iron cliff.
—Yuanwu’s comment in Blue Cliff Record Case 57
Summer Sesshin: Stepping Into the Transformation of Sesshin
John Tarrant opens the Great Summer Sesshin – Creatures of the Summer Dawn. If you just don’t try to work things out, the universe will take over. Whatever appears, don’t believe it! Enjoy yourself.
Dharma Theme: In the Wild – Mountain Koans & Poems
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Eventually you come to a place where you can’t go on and you can’t go back. You have arrived at the base of cliffs; you can’t scale them, you can’t get around them, and there’s no handy tunnel through them. It’s a daunting place—that’s the point of it. And when you arrive here your life and your journey can become your own.
A Blue Cliff Record Journey of Not Picking & Choosing
It’s remarkable that the Picking & Choosing koan appears four times in the Blue Cliff Record, which contains only one hundred cases. So, what to do with it? Whatever you see is going to be true, it’s going to belong to you.