Not everyone can get to a teacher or a sangha. Everyone can read books on Zen, and if you have a computer, you can download dharma talks. I want everyone to be able to work with koans. I have worked with koans for years now, but PZI does something innovative (actually, historically, PZI is returning to the way koans were worked in China before you were born) by making the koans a public case. John Tarrant holds koan seminars, in which people are invited to discuss what the koan is doing for them AT THAT MOMENT. For me, hearing people work through koans gave me confidence that I was not doing it wrong, and in fact, that I was doing it exactly right for me. I want others to have that gift. Not just those in Santa Rosa or the Bay Area of California, but for all our readers in India, Norway, Germany, England, Ireland, Spain, France, Bolivia, Japan, and most of the 50 united states (I am looking at YOU North and South Dakota. And New Hampshire. That's right, I know you are ignoring me). My idea is to post a koan online twice a month. On occasion, there will be commentary by a Zen Roshi. Anyone who reads this blog can participate, and post what they notice in the comments section. This koan group would be open to anyone, and the comments public to the world. In this way, your practice can touch the whole world, and the whole word can touch your practice. "In general I'd like you to think of the Dharma as something to be passed around and encouraged, more than as a secret property" - John Tarrant
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Roger Jordan
3/18/2010 07:10:32 am
Michael,
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Michael
3/18/2010 07:47:22 am
Roger,
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Jesse
3/18/2010 09:02:59 am
Sweet! When do we start???
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Ishara
3/23/2010 07:04:58 am
I think this is really great, and look forward to it.
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Rebecca del Rio
3/23/2010 07:14:39 am
Count me in. Nothing better than portable teachings/sharing.
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Jan B.
3/23/2010 12:35:39 pm
Love the website and the audio Dharma talks.
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3/25/2010 08:53:51 am
Hi Michael,
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2/25/2011 03:58:27 pm
It is nice to know this. Thanks for the time and effort. It is well appreciated. More to come.
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Author(s)“A Course on Koans” is the delusion-riddled work of Chris Kufu (“Wind in the Void”) Wilson, who began practicing Zen in 1967. He regards Taizan Maezumi, Robert Aitken, and David Weinstein as his root teachers. Each of them pecked at his shell until he “completed” the never-ending koan curriculum of the Harada-Yasutani lineage. Get posts as they are published:
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