Fools, Secrets, and Hosts

Sallie Jiko Tisdale

Sallie Jiko Tisdale

What does it mean to “function secretly, like a fool”? The final lines of one of our daily scriptures is packed with important teaching, in the simplest of language. The Zen fool is different from the conventional meaning of this world. So is a secret – and so is the host. We will look at the Five Ranks, beginner’s mind, and what it means be the “host within the host.”

This talk was given Sunday, February 1.

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