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Someone with No Shadow or Form Is Drawing the Water

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KOAN:

In a well that was never dug
water ripples from a spring that doesn’t flow.
Someone with no shadow or form
is drawing the water.

—PZI Miscellanous Koans, Case 22 (from a poem by Ikkyu)

Text July 7, 2020

Class 6 Curriculum Notes: Vast Emptiness – Call & Response Koans

John Tarrant

Koans
A Donkey Sees a Well (BS52), Dongshan Sick (BS94), Dongshan's Each Stitch, Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Guishan's No Foundation to Rely On, Huanglong Huinan's Three Turning Words (MK16)(GG49)(EV10), Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Say Something in Response, Someone with No Shadow or Form Is Drawing the Water
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Class 6 Curriculum Notes: Vast Emptiness – Call & Response Koans. Please do not share, this is core curriculum. July 25 2020.

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