Last night at Boundless Way Zen Temple, Dharma Holder Michael Herzog gave a talk about the excerpt from Taego Bou in our sutra book ("Days Like Lightning.")
In our dharma dialogue/discussion that followed, we focussed on the line "At the end of the road, it's like an iron wall." A number of us shared our fantasies about what that wall looks and feels like: a rough and wild stone wall, a slippery aluminum wall, and more.
A couple of us recalled the last scene in the Truman Show, a movie from 1998 starring Jim Carrey, where the hero tries to escape from his unreal world, and rams into what appears to be the edge of an ocean, but which is simply a stage set.
Many of the participants hadn't seen the Truman Show, so I thought I'd share the trailer here and hope to entice you into finding it streaming online. It's a truly Zen movie, in my openion, about waking up to the reality that we're all living in a dream. Check it out!
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