Hello and welcome to another episode of the secular Buddhism podcast. This is episode number 105.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I am talking about another Zen Khoan.

This one is called Open Your Treasure House.

Keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.

You can use it to learn to be a better whatever you already are.

I've been reading through some of my favorite Zen Khoans recently and I thought it would be fun to occasionally pick some and talk about them in the podcast.

Today I'm going to talk about one of these Khoans called Open Your Own Treasure House.

A quick reminder, the point of a Khoan comes from Zen Buddhism.

It's a riddle or a story that's meant to make you think.

Perhaps you can say it meant to make you stop thinking.

Sometimes it's presented as a riddle that tries to set you free from the habitual reactivity of the mind.

Something that would normally make sense, suddenly doesn't make sense and in that chaos or in that unsolvable riddle,

there could be a moment of awareness or enlightenment.

There are all kinds of Khoans, there are hundreds of them and you can find books that talk about them and share these stories.

I have one and that's what I was reading tonight and I thought it would be fun to talk about this specific Khoan.

So the story goes that Daiju visited the master Baso in China and Baso asked,

what do you seek? Enlightenment replied Daiju.

You have your own treasure house, why do you search outside? Baso asked. Daiju asked,

where's my treasure house? Baso answered, what you are asking is your treasure house? Daiju was enlightened.

Ever after he urged his friends, open your own treasure house and use those treasures.

And that's it, another quick little story that presents a concept.

And this one, to me, I like the key phrase here is, what you are asking is your treasure house.

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