Oct 20 – 26 | Dancing Crane Zen Center

Cold cliff

dead tree

this knobby-pated me

thinks there’s nothing better than a poem.

I mock myself, writing

in the dust, and

damn the man who penned the first word

and steered so many astray.

Ching An — The Clouds Should Know Me By Now

Practice Meetings

Tuesday Oct 22, 8:30am

Friday Oct 25, 7:00pm

This Week’s Koan

Gateless Gate #34

Nansen’s Knowing Is Not The Way

Nansen said, “Mind is not the Buddha, knowing is not the Way.”

Verse

The sky clears, the sun shines bright,

The rain comes, the earth gets wet.

He opens his heart and expounds the whole secret,

But I fear he is little appreciated.

Dancing Crane Zen Center