Bodhidharma’s Four Inclusive Practices

02/04/2023, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. In commemorating Zen’s first Chinese Ancestor, Abbot David provides an overview of Bodhidharma’s seminal work, the “Outline of Practice”, which posits that there are essentially two ways to enter the path of Zen ─ by ‘Principle’ and by ‘Practice’. He describes the four all-inclusive habits that Bodhidharma says lead to awakening, with particular focus on that of “accepting adversity”.