{"id":11832,"date":"2023-04-10T08:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/?p=11832"},"modified":"2023-04-22T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T15:28:00","slug":"a-black-lacquer-person-runs-through-the-night-the-sudden-awakening-of-keizan-jokin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2023\/04\/a-black-lacquer-person-runs-through-the-night-the-sudden-awakening-of-keizan-jokin.html","title":{"rendered":"A Black Lacquer Person Runs Through the Night: The Sudden Awakening of Keizan Jokin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Sudden, great awakening is the life blood of the Zen school, both Soto and Rinzai. In this post, I\u2019ll share one such great awakening \u2013 that of the important Soto ancestor, Keizan Jokin Zenji (1264-1325) \u2013 and make a few comments. May awakening stories like this one inspire your process to awaken fully and live congruently as such.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Keizan is up for me these days because <\/span>Tetsugan Sensei<\/span><\/a> and I are working through the last eight chapters of his <\/span>Denkoroku<\/span> (<\/span>The Record of the Transmission of Illumination<\/span>) with our <\/span>Vine of Obstacles Zen<\/a> group of training students<\/span>. This includes the last six generations in China and the first two in Japan. We also use the <\/span>Denkoroku<\/span> in advanced koan study, as is typical in the Harada-Yasutani line, but it is such a powerful and beautiful text, that we wanted to share it with all of our students now.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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