Here is our #koan/companion for the week:

Fifth-Patriarch Mountain said: “It’s like a water buffalo passing your window. Nose, horns, four hooves: they all lumber slowly by. But then, how is it the tail never goes past?”

Here is a link to the weekly schedule.
http://www.bowandroar.com/meditation-sche

*copied from the Common Way Meditation Community weekly email.

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This week we will sit with and explore Genjokoan, from the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye:

"To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to become one with the ten thousand things."

-Eihei Dogen

Here is a link to the weekly schedule.
http://www.bowandroar.com/meditation-schedule.html

*copied from the Common Way Meditation Community weekly email.

#koan #meditation #zen #chan #buddhism #opensourcezen