"Point = No Point"

When you expect ice cream, and it turns out to be no ice cream, it's a crushing. Mind makes everything. We give meaning to what is meaningless, we miss the actual meaning when there is one. Sometimes we might get it right, but when we don't, it's devastating. Unless, that is, we realize that our expectation of ice cream and all that entails is a complete fabrication. Want ice cream? Go eat an ice cream! Jonson Sunmin Miller gives the Dharma talk at One Mind Zen January 4, 2023.

"[Adjective] Buddhism"

For a group of people who are supposed to have this non-duality thing down, we Buddhists can sometimes be pretty bad at it. We're quick with to come out with Mahayana, Hinayana, Vajrayana, Zen, Tendai, Theravada, Green, Blue, ad infinitum. And all of us do the same thing in the rest of our lives too--Red State, Blue State, Labour, Tory, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, ad infinitum. The adjectives drive us apart where there is no defined, permanent, solid line to be drawn! The Way needs no adjectives, it barely needs a noun. Myeong Jin Eunsahn gives the year-end Dharma talk at One Mind Zen December 28, 2022.