You can find yourself in a critical situation without warning. Is Zen practice preparing you? Here’s a dharma talk I gave to the Village Zendo on September 5, 2024, about the classic koan, “Nansen kills the cat.” The first couple seconds of the video were cut off, sorry. There’s a written version below. --- At the monastery on Mount Nansen, the monks of the eastern and western halls were arguing about a cat. This was late morning sometime around the year 830, in southern China. It was...
