Koan Summer 5: Fields

Meander with Seido through Xuefeng's Rice Field (Dogen’s Koan Collection, case 149). Verdant farms remind us that the boundaries, borders and lines we draw on the land and between people are artificial. The fertile rice field depicted in the rakhusu teaches that practice means retrieving our rejected, discarded scraps.  Finally, when together we open to Buddha fields, such as compassion, “each person springs forth uniquely.”