1980-07-19-Blue-Cliff-Record-Case-5-Talk-1.md

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Blue Cliff Record Case 5: Hsueh Feng’s Grain of Rice, Talk 1

July 19, 1980 Dharma Talk by Dainin Katagiri Roshi

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Case 5 of Blue Cliff Record:

Hsueh Feng, Seppō Zen Master, teaching his community, said, “Pick up the whole great earth in your fingers, and it is as big as a grain of rice. Throw it down before you: if, like a lacquer bucket, you don’t understand, I will beat the drum to call everyone to look.”

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Briefly speaking, Seppō said to everyone, “Pick up the whole great earth in your fingers.” Fingers doesn’t mean just fingers. Anyway we have to pick up... pick up means to do something with, right now, right here. That is pick up. Beyond time and space. If you

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This talk was transcribed by Kikan Michael Howard. Audio recordings of Katagiri Roshi are being used with permission of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center.

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