The Price of Rice and the Metta Sutta




San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks show

Summary: 09/17/2022, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center. We discuss Case 5 of the Book of Serenity - “Qīngyuán and the Price of Rice” - and how, as in all good Koans, Qīngyuán answer to the monk’s question about the essential meaning of Buddhism is (at least) three phrases in one. We’ll see how those three phrases constitute as good an answer as any in history to the question of how to live an exemplary and wondrous life.