Several Zen schools have employed the koan as a device to assist a practitioner to awaken to a direct experience of Intelligence. This year, we follow in the footsteps of monks of old, devoting ourselves to koan practice through which we arrive at the “intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality,” which, according to D.T. Suzuki, is the highest act of wisdom.

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