Koan
The seven pound shirt
A monk asked Zhaozhou, "The ten thousand things return to the one. Where does the one return to?" Zhaozhou said, "When I was in Qingzhou, I made a cloth shirt. It weighed seven pounds."
Blue Cliff Record, case 45
How to sit with it
A big question met with a plain fact. What plain fact is in front of you 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.
