Dharma Talks on the Mumonkan
Mu, 09,26 pt, 2
A few conceptual supports for our journey on the Way, particularly a discussion of the unity of subject and object, and the importance of the concept of discontinuity. ...
Mu, 09/26, Pt. 1
A season-opening look at why and how we take up Zen practice, ...
CASE 42, A WOMAN COMES OUT OF SAMADHI, pt. 1
If you can grasp this completely, you will realize that surging delusive consciousness is nothing other than great samadhi. ...
CASE 42, A Woman Comes Out of Samadhi
If you can grasp this completely, you will realize that surging delusive consciousness is nothing other than great samadhi. ...
Teisho on Mu, Spring Sesshin, 2026
On the very cliff edge of birth and death you find the great freedom.... ...
Mumonkan, Case 40, Isan Kicks Over the Water Bottle
Tossing bamboo baskets and ladles away, he swept all impediments before him; Hyakujo’s severe barrier cannot interrupt his rush; innumerable Buddhas come forth from his toes. ...
Mumonkan, Case 35, Chien and her Soul are Separated, Part 2
Ten thousand things, ten thousand blessings! Is this one? Is this two? ...
Mumonkan, Case 35, Chien and her Soul are Separated, Part 1
Chien and her soul were separated; which is the real Chien? Based on an old Chinese folk tale ...
The Sixth Chinese Ancestor, Daikan Enô, from the Thirty-third Case of the Denkôroku, Compiled by Keizan Zenji
The sound of the mortar is high outside the empty emerald-blue (sky). The white moon is tossed in the winnow of the clouds – deep and pure is the night. ...
Case 29, Enô’s “Not the Wind; Not the Flag”
“Gentlemen! It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is your mind that moves.” ...