Valerie begins this teisho with the reminder that we are here, right where we are, as is everything else, nothing excluded. She recounts driving to Telluride last week and seeing the gold of the autumn foliage filling the whole land. In the face of this beauty your separate self cannot survive. You embrace as one, emptiness, complete beauty. Valerie reads an excerpt from the poem “Dandelion” and asks the question, “What does one moment of beauty have to do with our practice?” Valerie then invites us to explore and discover Case #27 of the Hekiganroku (Blue Cliff Record), “Yunmen’s Complete Exposure.”
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