so much as questions that have to be answered with your whole soul. We don’t really have an educational concept like this in the west, but the aim of Rinzai meditation and learning is to arrive at kensho (jianxing in Chinese), a sudden and complete understanding of the true nature of the world. Such “inst

gic. It can’t be simply explained, or taught with words alone. It calls on more immediate feelings, in the way we night fall in love or get angry. In Rinzai study, the aim is to tighten and compress your mind with meditation and focus and exercise - and the occasional slapping sharpness of a hardwood “enl