One Practice: Genjokoan Webinar 10

Here’s the webinar recording: Click (and when it gets rolling, click View and Video).

The heart of this weeks work is just this One Practice! As Dogen puts it:

 …When a person does practicenlightenment 
in the buddha way,
as the person realizes one dharma, 
the person permeates that dharma;
as the person encounters one practice,
the person practices one practice. 

We’re moving this session to conclusion in just two weeks and there’ll be no session next week due to sesshin here. The homework for this two week period is simple – be prepared for online dharma encounter, expressing your understanding, of the following passage:

Mayu was fanning himself. A monk approached and said, “Master, the nature of wind is all pervasive and there is no place it does not reach. Why then do you fan yourself?”

“Although you understand that the nature of the wind is all pervasive,” Mayu replied,” you do not understand the
meaning of its reaching everywhere.”

“What is the meaning of its reaching everywhere?” asked the monk again.

Mayu just kept fanning himself. The monk bowed deeply.

What, I ask, did the monk see that he expressed by bowing?