When the Baskets and Cages are Broken: Workshop Recording Now Available

Here’s a shot of workshop on Saturday at Boundless Way. We’re just starting to come back together after a break, I believe. 

Talking about the healing point of zazen, Old Dogen said, “…when the baskets and cages are broken, a seated Buddha does not interfere with making a Buddha.” And that is the main point of the workshop – to encourage a zazen that is in itself the breaking of the baskets and cages, a zazen free of category, including silent illumination or koan. Just complete doing. 

An explosive shout cracks the great empty sky.
Immediately clear self-understanding.
Swallow up the buddhas and ancestors of the past.
Without following others, realize complete penetration.
– Dogen
 
You can find a audio files of the workshop over at Boundless Way by clicking here.