Opening to Love

Here we go from St Francis of Assisi’s Prayer for Peace, to the Zen Koan “I have already become like this”¹. From there we accompany “Seven Wise Women in the Charnel Grounds”² and then see what thirteenth century Zen priest Eihei Dōgen has to say about “Birth and Death” in his fascicle of that name.³

¹ Susan Murphy’s take on Case 41 of Transmission of Light from her book Red Thread Zen

² Case 9 from The Hidden Lamp collection edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon

³ “Birth and Death (Shōji)” translated by Arnold Kotler and Kazuaki Tanahashi from Moon in a Dew Drop edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi.

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