No grasses

Dongshan’s question is ‘How will you take your activity of seeing into self-nature into the ups and downs of the grassy world?’ Jane looks at the Way of practice, setting off on the pilgrimage of each day to reach the place of no grass.

This teisho by Jane Andino was given on day 4 of Winter sesshin 2025 and explores case 89 of the Book of Serenity, Dongshan’s ‘No Grasses’.