Ch’ien and Her Soul are Separated

The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast by Zen Mountain Monastery

Sep 6, 202642:03Religion & Spirituality

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/6/26 - Stories are one of the primary ways that we create and re-create suffering in our own minds, and this folk tale of Ch'ien and her soul in a Zen koan lends itself well t...

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