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Rinzai’s Neither Outside nor Inside


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Followers of the Way, when I say that there is no Dharma outside, the students do not understand and deduce it is necessary to search within themselves. Then they sit, leaning against a wall, tongue pressed to the upper palate, and remain so motionless. That they take for the patriarch’s gate of the Buddha-Dharma. What a great error!

(The Zen Teaching of Rinzai; tr. Irmgard Schloegl, pub. Shambhala 1975)

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In this podcast:

  • What is Dharma?
  • Mumon’s treasures of the house v. Hogan’s ‘Is that stone inside or outside?
  • Master Mumon’s looking for fire with fire…
  • Wisdom arises out of the samadhi of the situation
...more
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