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Encountering Shih-Tou (1 of 2): The Myriad Things as the Self
Encountering Shih-Tou (1 of 2): The Myriad Things as the Self
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Mar 3, 2009
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Podcast episode
Description
Jay Rinsen Chikyo Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on July 27, 2008.
"Shih-Tou's awakening happened as he read this passage from the teachings of the early scholar monk Seng-Chow:
"'The Ultimate Self is empty and void. Though it lacks form, the myriad things are all of its making. One who understands the myriad things as the Self, isn't that a sage?'
"That seeming dichotomy right there, the myriad things and the self, the form, the empty, the void, the relative and the absolute became the essential insight that Shih-Tou would plumb the depths of and elucidate in a way that hadn't happened before him, to such a degree that his 'Identity of Relative and Absolute' is a teaching that we chant to this day."
Note: This talk also addresses what it means to "sit with" koans as a practice, and how it relates to concentration practices.
For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org. The Toledo Zen Center is a member of the Hermitage Heart Sangha, online at hermitageheart.org.
"Shih-Tou's awakening happened as he read this passage from the teachings of the early scholar monk Seng-Chow:
"'The Ultimate Self is empty and void. Though it lacks form, the myriad things are all of its making. One who understands the myriad things as the Self, isn't that a sage?'
"That seeming dichotomy right there, the myriad things and the self, the form, the empty, the void, the relative and the absolute became the essential insight that Shih-Tou would plumb the depths of and elucidate in a way that hadn't happened before him, to such a degree that his 'Identity of Relative and Absolute' is a teaching that we chant to this day."
Note: This talk also addresses what it means to "sit with" koans as a practice, and how it relates to concentration practices.
For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org. The Toledo Zen Center is a member of the Hermitage Heart Sangha, online at hermitageheart.org.
Released:
Mar 3, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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