Martin Goodson
Rinzai’s Neither Outside nor Inside
Gateway Talks
Is the truth within us or outside of us?
Followers of the Way, when I say that there is no Dharma outside, the students do not understand and deduce it is necessary to search within themselves. Then they sit, leaning against a wall, tongue pressed to the upper palate, and remain so motionless. That they take for the patriarch’s gate of the Buddha-Dharma. What a great error!
(The Zen Teaching of Rinzai; tr. Irmgard Schloegl, pub. Shambhala 1975)
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In this podcast:
• What is Dharma?
• Mumon’s treasures of the house v. Hogan’s ‘Is that stone inside or outside?
• Master Mumon’s looking for fire with fire…
• Wisdom arises out of the samadhi of the situation
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