…subject. The main subject: attention. A monk asked joshu: all the dhamma lead up to the one, but what does the one lead up to? Joshu said I was in the province of sei. I made a hempen rope. It weighed 7 pounds. This is a very famous story. Attention.…

…monk asked joshu: all the dhammas, all the teachings, all the dhammas lead up to the one, but what does the one lead up to? Joshu said I have been in the province of sei. I made a hempen rope. It weighed 7 pounds. That was the answer. Joshu is the…

…up to? Joshu said I have been in the province of sei. I made a hempen rope. It weighed 7 pounds. That was the answer. Joshu is the famous Chinese Zen master who joined our order at his age of 60 and he studied zazen, our practice, for 20 years under…