How to Answer the Greatest Koan Ever! You in Gutei's house now baby!!

Case #3 of the Mumonkan -- "Gutei's finger" -- is, admittedly, bat**** crazy.
It's also one of the most profound teachings in Zen Buddhism!
As luck would have it, I recently got a book of my teacher's transcribed talks (said book revealed to you here in a special "Unboxing Segment"!!). In this book my teacher unpacks Gutei's One-Fingered Zen and brings us to some pretty dang profound conclusions!
The story goes that whenever someone asked Zen master Gutei what the Buddhist teachings were all about, homeboy would simply raise one finger. Gutei's attendant started doing the same thing when asked the same question. "Hmm," Gutei thought. "The little rat is imitating me. Time to teach him a lesson!" And so one day, when Gutei asked his attendant what the Buddhist teachings meant, and the little copycat raised his finger, Gutei took out his trusty hatchet and chopped the kid's finger off! (Trigger warning [belated])!
In this video we dig deep into the essence of Zen, and in doing so we "cut off" the very teachings themselves as we touch upon what my teacher called "the true encounter."
This encounter is where one's ego, or one's thinking/perseverating/overly logical & stuck human mind dissolves, and "Zero" or "Satori" or "the Original Face" or "true relationship/true love" (as my teacher called it) is born.
Ahhhhhhh..... true love!
Now an interesting thing happens in my teacher's text. He explains how the "true self" is realized, but it is realized through...? The limited or conditional self, i.e. crummy old YOU! Make sense? Well, don't worry! In this video I do my darnedest get this really sophisticated point across with the help of my teacher's transcribed teaching, which contains one of the most beautiful, complex, and interesting sentences that I have ever come across re: Zen.
So click here to hear said sentence -- and welcome to Gutei's One-Fingered Zen, baby!!
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