“Waking to the Truth” is a discussion of how waking to our True Nature is an ongoing process, both before and after our awakening to the Truth. 

The talk opens with the words of Great Master Keizan, from Chapter 29 of the Denkōroku on the life and teaching of the Thirty-Eighth Ancestor, Great Master Tōzan Ryōkai (807-869). Founder of the Cao-dong Chan tradition in China (later Sōtō Zen in Japan), Tōzan offers us the compassionate wisdom expressed in The Most Excellent Mirror – Samadhi.