Koan
Mountain flowers bloom
A monk asked Dalong, "The body decays. What is the body that cannot decay?" Dalong said, "Mountain flowers bloom like brocade. Valley streams are as blue as indigo."
Blue Cliff Record, case 82
How to sit with it
Look out of a window and name one thing that is alive 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.
