Step 10 Revealing Ourselves

A new month, a new koan...This is what we're sitting with in October.

Bill

Step 10:  Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

 

KOAN:  Blue Cliff Case 27: Yunmen’s Manifestation

A monk asked Yunmen, “When the tree withers and the leaves fall, what’s happening?”

Yunmen replied, “the golden wind is revealing itself.” [“autumn is manifesting itself”] 1

The golden wind is the reference to autumn in the old Chinese culture. It’s a sweet time really—this time of letting go, of returning, of waiting for the new to emerge. There’s a quality of being between times when the old is still visible and the new has not yet formed. There is a golden quality to this time—an intimacy.

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1 Golden Wind is the name of the deity of autumn.