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Dear All,
PLEASE EXCUSE A LITTLE FEVERISH JUNDO AND A LITTLE UNRULY CAMERA DURING PARTS OF TODAY'S SITTING.
OUR TALK SUBJECT THIS WEEK WILL BE THE "WILD FOX KOAN" OF THE BOOK OF SERENITY.
Please 'sit-a-long' with our MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE 8am to noon Japan time Saturday morning (that is New
Case 7 never ends, yet now comes ...
CASE 8 - Hyakujo's (Pai-chang's) Fox
A Zen Teacher claims that, in Great Enlightenment, one is free of Karmic effects, life and death, rebirth. In return, upon his death, he find himself trapped in a fox's body for 500 rebirths. Payback!
The trapped fox (in the guise of an old man) then
I really like working with gathas. I wrote about them on my blog (http://dharmacore.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/zen-buddhist-gathas/), and I love the ones written by Thich Nhat Hanh (http://www.nuhong.org/bd_stepping_freedom.htm) and Robert Aitken (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0938077600/).
I write a few of my own from time
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