Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 01/23/2022
From Dongshan’s “Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi” and Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Please Call Me By My True Names”
This talk spans the centuries of buddhadharma, taking up the teachings of Master Dongshan and Thich Nhat Hanh who passed from this life recently. Pointing to the unity of emptiness, the truth of non-duality and the boundless heart of the bodhisattva, Shugen Roshi invites us afresh into the question: what do we call the self?