Recorded on January 13, 2024.

Roshi Rafe Jnan Martin offers the first teisho of the new year.  He addresses the subject of why we practice and, as lay practitioners, the forms that dedicated practice could take.

Referenced is Case 17 of the Blue Cliff Record (Hekiganroku):  A monk asked Kyorin, “What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the west?”  “Sitting long and getting tired.”

Photography: Persisting Buddha, by Rafe Martin

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