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SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: the sound of a bell

SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: the sound of a bell

FromTREELEAF ZENDO PODCAST


SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: the sound of a bell

FromTREELEAF ZENDO PODCAST

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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Feb 12, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In the very begining of Shobogenzo, Dogen quotes a famous poem of Nyojo, his teacher:

My late master, the eternal buddha, says:

Whole body like a mouth, hanging in space;

Not asking if the wind is east, west, south, or north,

For all others equally, it speaks prajñā.

Chin ten ton ryan chin ten ton.

Free, careless, empty, the bell and the sound cannot be broken in two. Is the bell just a bell? Isn't the bell bigger, much larger? How large, how big is it? And where are you in the picture?

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Released:
Feb 12, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

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Dharma talks by Jundo Cohen & others from Treeleaf Zendo