Count the Stars in the Night Sky: Zen Koans and the Imagination

The miscellaneous koans of the Zen lineage are image rich, as is much of the teachings on awakening found in the Zen literature. In this talk we will open to the image of the koan Count the Stars in the Night Sky and discover within our own soma the wisdom and power of such a simple phrase.

This is an invitation to enter both body and image as a way of utilizing the imagination as part of the awakening process.