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Bodhidharma’s Wall Contemplation

Bodhidharma was famously said to have meditatively faced a wall at Shaolin Temple for nine years. But is this “wall gazing” to be taken literally as a person facing a wall, or it it a person practicing like a wall gazing at the world: rooted in equanimity and non discrimination?

Video Kusen Adapted from Kusen No 326 given on 19th December 2020