In this episode, Roshi John Tarrant takes up a deep, strange koan in which a student asks Yunmen, "Where do all the Buddhas come from?" And, Yunmen answers: "East mountain walks on the water."

Pondering the inevitable questions that appear as part of koan study, like where do we come from, and what is the source of this existence we find ourselves part of, Tarrant considers the traditions of Zen and Haiku as well as hippopotamuses.

What do we do when everything we are holding onto falls down?

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"The whole universe is in the glimpses." - John Tarrant.

Learn more about this episode of Meeting the Inconceivable at https://www.pacificzen.org/11