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Clark Strand

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Green Koans Case 31: Daito’s Raincoat

CASE #31: Daito’s Raincoat Daito Kokushi wrote a short verse about the rain: No umbrella, getting soaked,I’ll just use the rain as my raincoat. BACKGROUND Daito Kokushi     A Japanese Zen master of the Rinzai sect, Daito (1282-1337) was the founder of Daitoku-ji Monastery, one of Japan’s most influential temples. Established as “National Teacher” by […]

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Green Koans Case 61: The Naked Dharma

CASE #61: The Naked Dharma Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen taught: Even if you do not search or study anything, the natural state is always with you from the limitless beginning. There is nothing to lose and nothing to find. If you search yourself can you find it? Therefore you should not speak about searching for the […]

By Clark Strand

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Green Koans Case 60: Dōgen’s To-Do List

CASE #60: Dōgen’s To-Do List Dōgen Zenji wrote himself a reminder: To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies […]

By Clark Strand

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Green Koans Case 58: Tōhta’s Haunted Sea

CASE #58:    Tōhta’s Haunted Sea A poem by the modern avant-guarde haiku poet Kaneko Tōhta reads: In the blue sea wherecormorants and hungry ghostshave already swum BACKGROUND:Kaneko Tōhta      Tōhta (b. 1919) is one of the most important modern Japanese haiku masters, known for his bold, often surrealistic experimental style and for his humanistic approach to […]

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