Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

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A non-Buddhist comes to awakening before the Buddha, sitting in silence, while his longtime disciple Ananda, standing in attendance, remains dumbfounded. How notions of identity can bind us. Who awakens? No one!

A commentary on Case Number 32 of the Mumonkan ("A Non-Buddhist Questions the Buddha") by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

See also:

• Further commentaries on the Mumonkan
• Other talks by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede