Jacksonville Riverside Zen Group
One day, a monk asked Zen Master Joju, "Does a dog have Buddha nature?" Joju answered, "Mu"(no). The monk was dumb-founded because Buddha said that everything has Buddha nature, but Joju said that a dog has no Buddha nature. Who is correct? What is "Mu"? What is a dog's Buddha nature?
The Human Route
Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed -- that is human.
When you are born, where do you come from?
When you die, where do you go?
Life is like a floating cloud which appears.
Death is like a floating cloud which disappears.
The floating cloud itself originally does not exist.
Life and death, coming and going, are also like that.
But there is one thing which always remains clear.
It is pure and clear, not depending on life and death.
Then what is the one pure and clear thing?
Open and free to the public
7:00- 8:00pm every Monday.
affiliated with the Kwan Um School of Zen and The Gateless Gate Zen Center