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Flower Mountain Zen

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The Koan for March

The Adventures of Yu Daopo

Yu Daopo lived in Jinling. She worked in the market square making sweet rice cakes. The Zen teacher Langye Huije tasted them at her shop. He gave her the saying of the Old Master Linji: There is a no-position genuine person.




One day she heard a beggar singing the Lotus Sutra. He said, "if you haven’t heard the story of Liu Yi, how can you find your way to Lake Dongting?” Suddenly she understood.  She threw her rice cake pan onto the ground. Her husband scowled and said, “You are wicked!” Daopo responded, “This is not your realm.” 




She returned to see Langye where he was giving a talk at his temple. He said, “Is anyone here a no-position genuine person?” She immediately answered, “There’s a no-position genuine person with six arms and three heads, working furiously, splitting Flower Mountain in two with a single blow. For ten thousand years the swiftly flowing water didn’t know it was Spring. Eminent teachers, so sharp and quick, have lost it beneath the dark forest of their learning” 


Later she became a famous teacher and when masters and students came to her for her teachings, she called them all “son”


Yu Daopo lived during the Song Dynasty in China, born around the year 1000. Yu was her family name and her teaching name was Daopo which means "Old Lady/Grandma/Hag of the Tao".  

Lead Teacher

Rachel Boughton

Rachel Boughton is a Zen Roshi. She's a feminist, artist, writer, and meditation and koan teacher. She is also a Jungian Analyst in training. 


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Meditation Schedule 2023

All Sunday sessions start at 10am 

Meditation sessions are offered free,

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Rachel Boughton teaches on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday from 10 to 11:45am Pacific Standard Time. Other Sunday meditations are from 10 to 11am, leaders below.

 

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Wednesday Meditation: Join Jisen Coghlan  and the Boise Zen Center boisezencenter.org

starting at 6am (or start at 6:40am) ending at 7:10am 

3/15

Wednesday Meditation with Jisen at Boise Zen

6:00

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7:10am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

Event Details

3/15

Wednesday Meditation with Jisen at Boise Zen

Sitting meditation with a koan, led by Jisen Coghlan  details at boisezencenter.org

6:00

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7:10am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

3/19

Sunday Meditation & Teaching: Rachel

10:00

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11:45am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

Event Details

3/19

Sunday Meditation & Teaching: Rachel

Sitting meditation with teaching and conversation, with Rachel Boughton (I hour & 45 minutes)

10:00

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11:45am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

3/22

Wednesday Meditation with Jisen at Boise Zen

6:00

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7:10am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

Event Details

3/22

Wednesday Meditation with Jisen at Boise Zen

Sitting meditation with a koan, led by Jisen Coghlan  details at boisezencenter.org

6:00

-

7:10am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

3/26

Sunday Small Group Meditation

10:00

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11:00am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

Event Details

3/26

Sunday Small Group Meditation

Meditation in a small group format with this month's koan,  with Jisen Coghlan leading.

10:00

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11:00am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

3/29

Wednesday Meditation with Jisen at Boise Zen

6:00

-

7:10am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

Event Details

3/29

Wednesday Meditation with Jisen at Boise Zen

Sitting meditation with a koan, led by Jisen Coghlan  details at boisezencenter.org

6:00

-

7:10am

Video Meeting on Zoom (link on Find Us page)

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