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Listen "2025-08-31 | Dharma Talk | Practice: What Is It? | Jess"
Episode Synopsis
Koan was from The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans by Koun Yamada. Case 7: Joshu's Washing the Bowls.
Reflection questions:
1) What were you looking for when you first entered the monastery/practice/zen center?
2) How would you have reacted to this teaching back then?
3) Do you notice any resistance from you or a part of you to this?
4) How do you respond to this teaching now? What’s alive in you?
5) Utilizing this koan, what could this teaching mean for your practice?
Reflection questions:
1) What were you looking for when you first entered the monastery/practice/zen center?
2) How would you have reacted to this teaching back then?
3) Do you notice any resistance from you or a part of you to this?
4) How do you respond to this teaching now? What’s alive in you?
5) Utilizing this koan, what could this teaching mean for your practice?
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