The Whole World Is Medicine (BCR87)
KOAN:
Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other.
The whole world is medicine.
What am I?
—The Blue Cliff Record, Case 87 (Yunmen)
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October 22, 2020
The Nature of Practice
Practice. The notion of practice, as something you embody, and you walk through, and you are—rather than something you add, like something added to gasoline. There’s also a sense of moving in the dark, in some way that’s positive. So that in a practice, “not knowing” is on your side.
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December 3, 2019
How is it that Sickness & Medicine Heal Each Other?
The dark things shine as brightly as the bright light – and we don’t need health to shine.