Audio Files
June 2, 2020
89' 39"

Yunmen’s Inward & Outward Radiance

Allison Atwill

Description

In times of chaos, disturbance, and disintegration, your own experience and distress are fundamental keys to Zen. If we rest in who we are, we let the universe see us.

Koans

Give Me the Reaching, What Is Your Light? (BCR86)

Tagged

being restless, Covid pandemic, dilemmas, distress, Ferlinghetti, inquiry, light, Muzhou, radiance, reaching, your light, Yunmen

Summary

In times of chaos, disturbance, and disintegration, your own experience and distress are fundamental keys to Zen.

“What is most urgent for me?”
Yunmen throws the questioner back into their own field:
“The very you that’s afraid they do not have the answer.”

We are born into a particular radiance of “not two” and gradually take on separation. If we rest in who we are, we let the universe see us.

Allison Atwill gives a dharma talk in Tuesday Zen (special series) on June 2nd, 2020.