The Cotton Sock Flower

Blue Collar Zen by spiritual folk-tales & conversations, at the Detroit Zen Center

Episode notes

Here we have the origin story of Sudeok-sa, the mother temple of the Detroit Zen Center. This tale begin on ordinary morning in the life of a young upper class boy named Sudeok. Bored with his daily studies, he takes his man servants on a hunting adventure, but what he encounters next changes his destiny, and the trajectory of so many after him....