A Rice Cake. Just A Rice Cake.

About this episode

Ron Hogen Green explores the concept of going beyond our ancestors in the pursuit of ultimate truth.

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - 5/28/26 - Going beyond our ancestors, going further than they could go, is the task of every student of the dharma. What is the ultimate truth? In other words, asks Hogen Sensei, who is this person asking the question? Going beyond conceptual thought, what is it? Here where you are, fully alive, what is it now? Close the gap, as Daido Roshi used to say, and you go beyond the ancestors. (From the Book of Equanimity, Case 78 - Ummon's Rice-Cake.)

People in this episode

Guest: Ron Hogen Green

Topics covered

• dharma
• ultimate truth
• conceptual thought
• self-inquiry
• Zen practice

Keywords

• dharma
• ultimate truth
• Zen
• self-inquiry
• conceptual thought
• Book of Equanimity
• Ummon's Rice-Cake

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Book of Equanimity, Case 78 - Ummon's Rice-Cake

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