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Teisho by Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse
“The blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul.”
Leonard Cohen
I suppose we could all agree by now that the housing crisis is not the only bubble that is being burst in our world. As major world views are crumbling all around us how do [...]
Teisho by Robert Joshin Althouse Roshi
“When all things exist, there is enlightenment and delusion,
practice, life and death, Buddhas and ordinary people.
When all things are without self,
there is no delusion, no enlightenment, no Buddhas, no ordinary people, no life and death.
Buddhism is beyond being and non-being;
so there are life and death, delusion and enlightenment, [...]
audio of Teisho by Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse
(c) 2009, Zen Community of Oak Park
Teisho by Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse
“The blue mountain is the father of the white cloud.
The white cloud is the son of the blue mountain.
All day long they depend on each other, without being dependent on each other.
The white cloud is always the white cloud.
The blue mountain is always the blue mountain.”
Zen Master Tozan
The blue mountain [...]
Audio of Teisho by Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse.
(c) 2009, Zen Community of Oak Park