Milarepa, Drinking the Mountain Stream

Practice Meetings

Tuesday Feb 19, 8:30am

Friday Feb 22, 7:00pm

This Week’s Reading

Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path While Cloud, Chapter 31, “I Will Return in the Spring”.

This Week’s Koan

Blue Cliff Record #84, Book of Serenity #48 : “The Vimalakirti Sutra’s Non-Duality”

Vimalakirti asked Manjusri,

“What does it mean that the Bodhisattva enters the
Dharma-gate of Not-Two?”

Manjusri said,

“I see it like this: in all phenomena, there are
neither words nor explanations, neither presentations nor knowledge; it is beyond all
questions and answers. That is what I understand with ‘to enter the Dharma-gate of
Not-Two’.”

Then Manjusri asked Vimalakirti,

“All of us have finished giving our explanations. Now you
should give your explanation. What does it mean that the Bodhisattva enters the
Dharma-gate of Not-Two?”

Vimalakirti remained silent.