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Audio January 29, 2020

Vimalakirti & His Daughter, Moonlike Beauty

Allison Atwill

Koans
Sickness and Medicine (BCR87), The Gate of Nonduality (BS48)
Tags
2019 Fall Sesshin, Book of Serenity, Manjushri, moonlike beauty, Vimalakirti
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Audio

Allison relays a story of an encounter between Manjushri and Vimalakirti. Manjushri, among the 32,000 bodhisattvas sent by Buddha to Vimalakirti’s sickbed, asks, “How do bodhisattvas enter the gate of nonduality?” The response is an intimate silence. Allison’s story includes the karmic path that his daughter, Moonlike Beauty, bore on her way to enlightenment.

47' 10"