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Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
1w ago
Zen students sometimes seem to think that Zen is a passive process. One just sits and the magic happens. Nonsense! And Sōtō students sometimes dismiss wholehearted application of the method by attributing “hair on fire” training to Rinzai Zen. Double nonsense!! Here’s a bit from the Cáodòng/Sōtō master Wànsōng – his preface to Record of ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
3w ago
I recently posted just the verse for this old case, along with my thank-you message for April for Patreon subscribers. Below you will find the full case in all it’s glory. But first a bit of background. The issue of sound and color is one that comes up a lot in the Zen tradition, because ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
1M ago
The Record of the Transmission of Illumination (J. Denkoroku) by Keizan Jokin Zenji (1264-1325) is one of the most important dharma texts available to us today – so important that the great master Harada Sogaku Roshi (1871-1961) chose it for his reformed koan curriculum. In a recent post, I shared Keizan’s sudden awakening (J., satori ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
1M ago
Sudden, great awakening is the life blood of the Zen school, both Soto and Rinzai. In this post, I’ll share one such great awakening – that of the important Soto ancestor, Keizan Jokin Zenji (1264-1325) – and make a few comments. May awakening stories like this one inspire your process to awaken fully and live ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
1M ago
Intimate friendship is such an important aspect of the Zen Way. In the dharma context, an intimate friend (知音, J. “chi-on”) is someone who really gets your music – and vice versa. Such a person can be a peer or a teacher. For more about intimate friends, see Going Through the Mystery’s One Hundred Questions ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
2M ago
April ’23 Thank You! Here’s my less-than-four-minute video about what’s been happening at Dosho Port@Patreon, what’s coming up, and a little about a $9,000 three-day mindfulness retreat that I have not been invited to teach at. Oh, and it’s in Cancun. This is NOT an April Fool’s Day gag. For readers of this Wild Fox ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
2M ago
"Intimately know, intimately loosen thoughts, and for now cut them off, sit, and look ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
2M ago
Below you will find a dharma talk by an incredible (and largely unknown) Zen master, Miàodào Dǐngguāng (1095-1170), one of only three women Zen masters listed in Outline of the Linked Flames, a transmission of illumination collection published in 1183. Miàodào had been a student of the Cáodòng (J. Sōtō) master Zhenxie Qingliao (1088-1151; Tall ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
2M ago
In this post, you’ll find a selection from Going Through the Mystery’s One Hundred Questions. Also, a few years back, while I was in the midst of translating and commenting on these old cases, I gave a talk about this and included some excerpts from the awakening story of an incredible awakened woman from the ..read more
Patheos Blog » Wild Fox Zen
2M ago
This week in our Vine of Obstacle Zen practice period, we are studying the 46th ancestor, Danxia Zichun (丹霞子淳, Vermillion Mist Pure Child; J. Tanka Shijun; 1064–1117) through Keizan’s Record of the Transmission of Illumination. In this post, I’ll give you a tiny bit of background about Danxia and then quote one passage from his ..read more