“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.”
-Choygam Trungpa
Practice Meetings
Friday Sept 11, 7:00pm
This Week’s Koan
Blue Cliff Record #5
“Xuefeng’s Rice Grain”
Xuefeng, teaching the assembly, said, “I pick up the entire great earth with my fingers and bring it like a big grain of rice from the paddy. I throw it away toward the area in front of you. The lacquer bucket does not meet it. I beat the universal drum begging you to look at it.”