Featured Koan: The Land of Demons

A great minister asked, "I've been reading the sutras—what is meant by, 'A fierce wind has blown the ship off course, setting it drifting toward the land of the Rakshasas'?"
The teacher responded, "Why ask something like that?"
The great minister's face went pale with that response.
And the teacher repeated, "A fierce wind has blown the ship off course, setting it drifting toward the land of the Rakshasas!"
The minister understood.

—Entangling Vines Case 42

Passing Through the Land of Demons

Joan Sutherland

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Audio June 11, 2020

What is Your Response? A Butterfly Flies up!

Michelle Riddle

Koans

Teachings that Will Last a Lifetime (BCR14), What Does Essential Nature Look Like? (MK28)

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PZI Zen Online: The moment you are doing nothing the universe is doing you! What is your response? Responses, readings from Atlanta Mayor Bottoms, Yunmen, William Stafford, Joan Sutherland. Koans for troubled times. Each moment is new. Where is the source of your response? No guarantees, anything can happen. As recorded June 5, 2020.

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Audio April 28, 2020

Talking About the Deepest Matters

John Tarrant

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What Is This?, Who Am I?