Featured Koan: Zhaozhou's Great Way Is Not Difficult - Blue Cliff Record Case 2

Xiangyan was once asked by a monastic, "What is the Way?"
Xiangyan said, "A dragon singing in a withered tree."

The monastic asked Caoshan, "Who can hear this?"
Caoshan said, "In the whole world, there is no one who does not hear it."

—from Xuedou's verse commentary on Blue Cliff Record Case 2

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Audio April 24, 2020

Deshan Redreamed

Jesse Cardin

Koans

Deshan's Enlightenment (GG28), Renowned Far & Wide

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covid 19, denial, departure, Diamond Sutra, disruption, enlightenment, hero's journey, the tea shop lady

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Jesse reimagines Deshan’s classic enlightenment story. He looks at some of the essential features of the journey of awakening, how we make koans our own, and the role that imagination plays in Zen. PZI Zen Online. Audio as recorded April 22, 2020.

85' 51"