Language of Gratitude

09/28/23 • 47 min

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/28/23 - Mumon's Gateless Gate, Case 6 - "Buddha Holds Up a Flower" - Being at the heart of Master Dogen's Intimate Language fascicle, this koan is explored by by Shugen Roshi, opening up the question of What is Intimate Language?

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In one, there is many. In many, only one.

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 9/27/23 - From the Book of Equanimity, Case 17 - Fayan's "Hairsbreadth" - What's the difference between conveying knowledge and conveying the non-dual dharma? How do we directly experience the distinctiveness and the oneness of things, and convey this to each other, in the activity of our everyday lives? Is that "Intimate Language"?

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Fusatsu: Language of Atonement

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/29/23 - In the midst of this Fusatsu ceremony, Shugen Roshi offers a teisho using three [ways of transforming bad circumstances into the path of enlightenment] of the 59 mind training slogans, which naturally illustrate ways of atonement.