2025-08-31 | Dharma Talk | Practice: What Is It? | Jess

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Koan was from The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans by Koun Yamada. Case 7: Joshu's Washing the Bowls. Reflection questions: 1) What were you looking for when you first entered the monastery/practice/zen center? 2) How would you have reacted to this teaching back then? 3) Do you notice any resistance from you or a part of you to this? 4) How do you respond to this teaching now? What’s alive in you? 5) Utilizing this koan, what could this teaching mean for your practice?

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