Bodhidharma Day and The Oak Tree in the Front Garden
Update: 2025-10-04
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Recorded October 4, 2025.
In honor of Bodhidharma, the founder of what we now call Zen Buddhism, Roshi Martin comments on the koan of the "Oak Tree in the Front Garden" and talks about a conversation with Robert Aitken Roshi and the relationship of Zen practice to actual happiness.
More on this koan will be found in Roshi Martin's upcoming book " Finding your Buddha Smile: Coming h\Home to What Zen is Really About."
Referenced:
- Zen Master Dogen -- Shobogenzo: Treasury of the True Dharma Eye - Translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi
- William Blake -- Songs of Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
- John Daido Loori -- The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans
- Books by Roshi Rafe Martin
- Talks on YouTube
- More information at endlesspathzen.org
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