Koan
The golden wind
A monk asked Yunmen, "What happens when the tree withers and the leaves fall?" Yunmen said, "The body is exposed in the golden wind."
Blue Cliff Record, case 27
How to sit with it
Loss can also be a kind of clearing. What is left when something falls away?
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.
