This talk explores “Don’t you know there is no Zen teacher??” Huang-po’s strong and challenging words to his assembly:  
”All of you people are gobblers of dregs:  if you go on travelling around this way, 
where will you meet Today?  Don’t you know there is no Zen teacher?”  
And when a student bravely asks about this claim, Huang-po responds:
“I didn’t say there is no ZEN, it’s just that there are no TEACHERS!”

This teisho, referring to Case 11 of the Blue Cliff Record, was given by Gillian Coote, roshi at Spring sesshin 2026 at Kodoji.