Gyodo Sensei offers reflections the great matter of Life and Death and Case 55 of the Blue Cliff Record “Won’t Say.” We will all encounter death in our life -- physical death, or the ending of other things that are important to us, that we love, that we have close, intimate connection with. What gets in the way of our direct experience of that passing? Our minds create oppositions between life and death when, in reality, they are intertwined. Dead trees provide habitat for other beings and their dead cells coexist with living cells in the formation of heartwood. What is life? What is death? Can anyone really say?