Featured Koan: Yunyan Asks About Hands & Eyes - Blue Cliff Record Case 89

Yunyan asked Daowu, “How does the bodhisattva of great compassion use all those hands
and eyes?” Daowu answered, “It’s like feeling behind you for a pillow in the middle of the night.”
“I understand.”
“What do you understand?”
“The whole body is hands and eyes.”
“That’s very well expressed, but it only says 80%.”
“What would you say, older brother?”
“All through the body are hands and eyes.”

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Audio February 3, 2021

Solo Voyage to Tahiti or Not

Allison Atwill

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Baling's Snow in a Silver Bowl (MK74a)(BCR13), I Know for Myself if It Is Warm or Cold

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PZI Winter Sesshin 2021 – Allison Atwill takes us on a solo sailing journey – a metaphor for sesshin and our lives.

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Text October 8, 2020

2 Zenosaurus: Transparent Poems 2, Transparent Poems & Poems that are Journals

John Tarrant

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Zenosaurus: Through poems like this I keep an erratic journal of the thoughts that I don’t quite understand—the thoughts outside my usual thoughts. They don’t have a punch line.

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