Awakening Streams: The One River Zen Podcast

Daring Greatly | Mumonkan Case #46 | Stepping from the Top of a Pole

Episode Summary

Sensei Michael discusses letting go of practice as a means to an end as a way of opening to our True Nature and appreciating our lives directly.

Episode Notes

CASE 46: Stepping Forward From the Top of a Pole

Case:

Master Sekiso said, “How will you step forward from the top of a hundred-foot pole?”

Another eminent master of old said, “Even though one who is sitting on the top of a

hundred-foot pole has entered realization, it is not yet real. He must step forward from the

top of the pole and manifest his whole body throughout the world in ten directions.”