Jo An shares his experience of watching vultures devour a deer carcass on his property. He ties this to Xuefeng’s “Dreg Slurpers” in our study text Zen Echoes, reminding us that the dharma does not live in the dregs of the ancients, but it is here and now.   (photo by Melissa MacMasters)


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Jo An shares his experience of watching

vultures devour a deer carcass on his property.

He ties this to Xuefeng’s “Dreg Slurpers”

in our study text Zen Echoes, reminding us that

the dharma does not live in the dregs

of the ancients, but it is here and now.


 


(photo by Melissa MacMasters)

The post Talk by Jo An Hoshi “Skin and Bones Zen” first appeared on The Village Zendo.