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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

A Suggestion

I want to talk about the famous koan between Nansen and his disciple Joshu. “Everyday Mind Is Dao.” I think you may know that koan. A koan is not something to explain. Why we talk about it is to give some suggestion about how to practice zazen. It is a suggestion. We don’t talk about what a koan means directly. We give you just a suggestion, and according to the introduction or suggestion, you work on the koan. That is how we explain koans and how you listen to koans.

Calligraphy by Michael Wenger

cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-03-10 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.