Wild Fox Zen
What did the monk see that he expressed by bowing? We’re digging into this question during this 100 day period and cultivating the empty field of mind and heart by reflecting on aspects of the Genjokoan: Actualizing the Fundamental Point that are essential to see what the monk saw.
Here is one such passage:
Firewood becomes ash. Ash cannot turn back into firewood again. However, we should not view ash as after and firewood as before. We should know that firewood dwells in the dharma position of firewood and it has it own before and after. Although there is before and after, past and future are cut off. Click here for the webinar on this theme.
Question especially for the practice period participants to dig into: When doing one thing is there anything else? (i.e., is today just today?) I encourage responses that follow examining the question in the midst of living practice.
Oh, the photo above is from Un Zen Occidental. Seems to be Sotan Oka, one of Bokusan disciple’s (whose comments play a large role in this weeks study), but I don’t read French so I’m really not sure. Thanks.
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