Peter explores Zhaozhou’s koan “The Supreme Way is not difficult”. Flowing through Yuanwu’s pointer, the Xinxin Ming, family life, and Xuedou’s verse, this koan shows us how practice meets difficulty without turning clarity, non-discrimination, Buddha, or Zen into something we subtly dwell in. 

This teisho given by apprentice teacher Peter Bursky at Winter sesshin 2026 at Annandale is from Case 2 of the Blue Cliff Record.