Working on Koans

An edited transcription of a teisho given by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede during the 1992 October sesshin.:

Every koan points to this Mind of absolute purity and wholeness. In its own unique way, each one is an expression of this Mind, which cannot be encompassed in words. It cannot be described, this fundamental nature of each one of us that has no limits, that is beyond our ordinary discriminating consciousness, beyond our rational intellect.