Listen "The goose is out! Suffering and the end of suffering part 3"
Episode Synopsis
This talk, based on an old koan, continues our exploration of psychological or mind-generated suffering and the ending of this suffering through seeing how psychological suffering is always synonymous with getting caught in conventional duality of “me” and “not me” and not seeing from the alternative perspective of unbounded awareness.
Here is the old koan. Lu Geng asked Nanquan:
If someone puts a gosling into a bottle and feeds it until it is full-grown, how can they get the goose out without killing it or breaking the bottle?
The Master kept silent for few moments and then clapped his hand. Lu Geng was startled and Nanquan said, “The goose is out!”
Here is the old koan. Lu Geng asked Nanquan:
If someone puts a gosling into a bottle and feeds it until it is full-grown, how can they get the goose out without killing it or breaking the bottle?
The Master kept silent for few moments and then clapped his hand. Lu Geng was startled and Nanquan said, “The goose is out!”
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