{"id":11928,"date":"2023-05-23T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:03:47","slug":"the-vigorous-nature-of-zen-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2023\/05\/the-vigorous-nature-of-zen-work.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vigorous Nature of Zen Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Zen students sometimes seem to think that Zen is a passive process. One just sits and the magic happens. Nonsense!<\/span><\/div>\n
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And S\u014dt\u014d students sometimes dismiss wholehearted application of the method by attributing \u201chair on fire\u201d training to Rinzai Zen. Double nonsense!!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s a bit from the C\u00e1od\u00f2ng\/S\u014dt\u014d master W\u00e0ns\u014dng \u2013 his preface to <\/span>Record of Going Easy<\/span> (J. <\/span>Sh\u014dy\u014droku<\/span>), Case 85: \u201cThe Appearance of the National Teacher\u2019s Monument.\u2019 Much more about Wansong is available here: Going Through the Mystery\u2019s One Hundred Questions.<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s W\u00e0ns\u014dng teaching about what it takes to truly \u201cgo easy:\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Smashing space beneath the blows of a hammer. Breaking open Flower Peak with the base of a lever. Then, for the first time, you\u2019ll arrive where there is no seam or crack, where you don\u2019t see flaws or scars. Yet, who is this way?<\/em><\/div>\n
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D\u014dsh\u014d Port began practicing Zen in 1977 and now co-teaches with his wife, Tetsugan Zummach Sensei, with Vine of Obstacles Zen<\/a>, an online training group. D\u014dsh\u014d received dharma<\/a> transmission from Dainin Katagiri R\u014dshi and inka sh\u014dmei from James My\u014dun Ford R\u014dshi in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He is also the author of Keep Me In Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri<\/a><\/i>. D\u014dsh\u014d\u2019s translation and commentary on The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans,<\/em><\/a> was published in 2021 (Shambhala). His\u00a0third book, Going Through the Mystery\u2019s One Hundred Questions<\/em><\/a>, is now available. Click here<\/a> to support the teaching practice of D\u014dsh\u014d R\u014dshi.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*
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*Zen students sometimes seem to think that Zen is a passive process. One just sits and the magic happens. Nonsense! And S\u014dt\u014d students sometimes dismiss wholehearted application of the method by attributing \u201chair on fire\u201d training to Rinzai Zen. Double nonsense!! Here\u2019s a bit from the C\u00e1od\u00f2ng\/S\u014dt\u014d master W\u00e0ns\u014dng \u2013 his preface to Record of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":11931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,316],"class_list":["post-11928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soto-zen","tag-wansong"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Vigorous Nature of Zen Work The Vigorous Nature of Zen Work<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zen students sometimes seem to think that Zen is a passive process. 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