Practice and Resilience

October 09 · Teachings · dukkha, emptiness, enlightenment, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, interdependence, liberation, relative and absolute, Resilience, responsibility, Summer / Fall 2018

by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi

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FROM THE RECORD OF MASTER YANGSHAN

Ho-shang Mi of Ching-chao sent a monastic to ask Yangshan: “Right in this very moment are you dependent on enlightenment?”

Yangshan said “There is no absence of enlightenment. Why fall into the secondary?”

Ho-shang Mi was a peer of Master Yangshan, a very important Chinese master in our lineage. Here he asks, right in this moment are you dependent upon enlightenment?

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