In this talk, Valerie weaves through our Zen inheritance from Shakymuni Buddha, to Prajnatara to her disciple Bodidharma, to Bodidharma’s disciple, to Baso and his student, Banzan, and here to us. She then takes up case 37 of the Hekiganroku, “Banzan’s Not One Thing in the Three Realms; where should we seek the mind?” She weaves in Bodhidharma’s answer to a question from Emporor Wu, “What is genuine merit?” We learn that Bodidharma’s answer to this question is no different from Rubin Habito’s ABC’s of Zen.
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