Giving Yourself to Life

Dharma discourse by Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, Sensei

Lulled into complacency by the apparent repetition of our life, our habitual passivity, or our feelings of accomplishment, we can end up more dead than alive. What better antidote than to recognize all we are receiving and to generously offer all we are in return?

The koan in this talk is “Chao Chou’s Big Turnips,” Case 30 from the Blue Cliff Record. It was given at ZMM on April 9, 2011.

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