Senior teacher ARobin Orden gives the seventh 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.  In this series we will be referencing commentaries by Shohaku Okumura (Living by Vow) and Suzuki Roshi (Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness).