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On some level, we are not human beings! Zhaozhou’s dog koan often leads off sesshins. When you throw yourself in with the dog, you make your whole body a mass of doubt. Your eyebrows are entangled with the Zen ancestors.
Summary
Someone asked Zhaozhou, “Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?”
Zhaozhou said, “No.”
—Gateless Gate, Case 1, & Book of Serenity, Case 18
On some level, we are not human beings!
Zhaozhou’s dog koan often leads off sesshins.
When you throw yourself in with the dog, you make your whole body a mass of doubt. Your eyebrows are entangled with the Zen ancestors. You enter what you thought was a problem, stop grasping, and the great koan carries you. You may not have an answer but the koan will answer for you.
Recorded in Summer Sesshin on June 13, 2023
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