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2016 Spring Sesshin – Gillian Coote, roshi – Step off the Pole
Teisho by Gillian Coote, roshi ‘Step from the Top of the Pole’ Mumonkuan #46/Book of Serenity #79: How do you live Hakuin Zenji’s ‘this very body, the Buddha’ when you step off the 100-foot pole and out into life, making your way into difficult places, amongst difficult people or
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2016 Spring Sesshin – Gillian Coote, roshi – Medicine & Sickness
Teisho by Gillian Coote, roshi ‘Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness’ #87 Book of Serenity I came down with a mysterious and painful condition earlier in the year. Coming out of the surgery in intensive care after three days, I knew nothing about any of this because I’d been taken emergency in a