Record of Going Easy

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Shake Out Your Sleeves And Go

"Shake Out Your Sleeves And Go" is Now Alive and Kicking

Dear Ghost Subscriber, I've started a new thing over at Substack - Shake Out Your Sleeves And Go. It'll include my translations of The Record of Going Easy, commentaries, and interviews with Zen teachers of the koan persuasion. Welcome to Shake Out Your Sleeves And GoAnd

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On Completing the Translation of the Record of Going Easy

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Speak Truth Now!

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What Color is the Cool Breeze? Fayan's Substance and Name

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Back from North Carolina - Sesshin and Helene

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Stars Shining Through a Hidden Meaning: On Taking the Teaching Seat

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Is Just Sitting Facing a Wall Enough?

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Nanquan Beheads a Cat: Putting the Two Together with One Stroke of a Blade

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Favor and Disgrace Are Disturbing, So Deeply Trust Yourself

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Not Two: Marvelous Function Without Limit

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At All Times, Do Not Give Rise To Deluded Thoughts (Not)

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Do People Today Still Need Satori Or Not?

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Engrave It On Your Bones, Carve It In Your Flesh

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This Breath Turns Millions Of Scrolls: An Invitation For The Ancestor To Go To East India

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Vine Zen Writing: '23 Roundup and What's Coming in '24

I'm writing today to give you a quick and organized way to view what's been offered here from the Vine Writing Department over the last several months and what is probably coming in '24.

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Dizang Planting the Fields: “What Do You Call the Three Worlds?”

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The Method is Knowing How to Soar: Linji's Blind Donkey

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Linji's Great Satori and All-Encompassing Awe-Inspiring Great Function: Dharma Talk and Text

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Unless You Know Bitter Suffering, You Won't Know Zhaozhou's Cypress Tree

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Not Knowing is Most Intimate

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Belly Laugh and Special Experiences

Warning: Although the koan below seems like a meeting of old friends, a proverbial dip into the warm mud bath at the Zen Spa, there are thorns in the mud. As you might expect.

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Eyes Asked Eyebrows...

In sorrow we grieve together. In laughter, we find the same joy.

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Linji's True Person

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Gnawing Through Qiánfēng’s Three Illnesses and Two Lights

"... You will see the infinite compassion contained in Qiánfēng’s instructions...."

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Absorption, Awakening and Spiritual Fascination: Juifeng Does Not Agree

We're back from sesshin and a little vacation. Both were wonderful, as is being home again in the hermitage and walking along the great lake. Today, as promised, I'm sharing my translation of The Record of Going Easy (Japanese, Shoyoroku, aka, Book of Serenity), Case 96: