Norman gives his twelfth talk of a series on the Sandokai, “The Harmony of Difference and Sameness”  (or “Merging of Difference and Equality”) to the Dharma Seminar. The Sandokai is a poem written by eighth  Chinese Zen ancestor Sekito Kisen (700-790) and is a fundamental text of the Soto school of Zen. Norman will be referencing commentaries by Shohaku Okumura (Living by Vow) and Suzuki Roshi (Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness).