Koan

Wash your bowl

A monk said, "I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me." Zhaozhou asked, "Have you eaten your rice porridge?" "I have." "Then wash your bowl."

The Gateless Gate, case 7

How to sit with it

The teaching is the next small thing in front of you. What is your bowl right now?

Read it once more, slowly. Then sit for two minutes and let it stay in the background. There is nothing to solve. New to this? Read what a koan is.

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