2017 January Sesshin

Amaryllis Fletcher, PZI Cantor, plays violin in afternoon session.

The question Who Am I?, opens my ability to enter the space that is always there. Getting to base as the ‘lead-off batter’ in koan practice.

Inquiring into being a Me, a Who, a Somebody, into What am I?, I lose ‘myself’. ‘Everything is true’! Why doesn’t that awareness stay? More interesting to have fun that to be somebody but we cling to that.

The dark things shine as brightly as the bright light – and we don’t need health to shine.

Steven talks about who we are together in response to the koan: Who Am I? Inquiry and discernment. Awareness as meditation.

The question Who am I! is at the heart of Chan’s origin and our practice. Allison talks about the two states of mind this question evokes: the openness of being vs the making of the ‘me’.

Recorded Friday evening at PZI’s Winter Sesshin January 2017 on  the eve of the inauguration. John Tarrant talks about waking up in a difficult time – when the ship is blown off course into demon country!

Amaryllis plays Bach on violin during January Sesshin. 2017.