Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Master Tong'an Changcha's Ten Talks of Unfathomable Depth (7)

We continue our series based on master Tong'an Changcha's 'Ten Talks of Unfathomable Depth', and this month we tackle poem number eight, called The Revolving Function. The short texts says:  8. The Revolving Function It is still dangerous even inside the castle of nirvana. Strangers come across each other without appointment. People call someone who provisionally puts on a dirty robe “a buddha.” But if someone wears precious clothes, what should you call him? In the middle of the night, the wooden man puts on shoes and leaves. At dawn, the stone woman puts on a hat and goes home. An ancient emerald pool, the moon in the empty sky. Screening and filtering over and over to catch the moon, for the first time you will really know. This talk was given during the Treeleaf Monthly Zazenkai. For more information, visit treeleaf.org