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March 2016 Zazenkai Talk (Shobogenzo - Kokū (Space - 虚空))
March 2016 Zazenkai Talk (Shobogenzo - Kokū (Space - 虚空))
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Mar 27, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
Because “this place is where something ineffable exists,” it is through the realization of these words that Buddhist patriarchs are caused to be. And because the realization of these words of Buddhist patriarchs passes naturally from rightful successor to rightful successor, the skin, flesh, bones, and marrow, realized as “a whole body,” are “hanging in space.” This space is beyond such categories as the twenty kinds of space [such as inside, outside, over, below, etc.]. In general, how could space be limited to only twenty kinds of space. There are eighty-four thousand kinds of space, and there may be countless more besides.
Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:March 4th-5th, 2016 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! »
Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:March 4th-5th, 2016 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! »
Released:
Mar 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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