Gyodo Sensei offers reflections on Case 87 from the Blue Cliff Record “Unmon’s Medicine and Sickness.” Master Unmon said “Medicine and sickness heal each other. The whole world is medicine. Where do you find yourself?” What is sickness?

Some of us have a physical illness, though we all have afflictions of many kinds. Heartbreak. Depression. Addiction. Disconnection. For all of these, we may need a form of medicine or healing. What is medicine? How do sickness and medicine work together? Master Dogen said “All my life, false and real, right and wrong, are entangled.” Who is it that is sick? Who is healthy?