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Doing the Work
San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
English - April 18, 2024 03:00 - 33 minutes - ★★★★ - 155 ratingsBuddhism Religion & Spirituality zen buddhism dharma mahayana suzuki roshi Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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04/17/2024, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Anshi Zachary Smith digs into the well-known Case 17 of the Blue Cliff Record. Here, we discover that there are unexpected and experientially accurate ways to interpret the original text of Hsiang Lin’s response beyond the usual, “Sitting for a long time becomes toilsome.” We explore some of these and talk about what, if anything, the “toil” or work of Zazen might be, both in the course of a single sitting and of a lifetime of practice.