When You Stop Chasing About with John TarrantWe are all walking through the valley holding our lanterns.

What is the Way? What do the valley and the lantern represent?

Koans allow us to stop chasing. When we are not chasing things, we can experience freedom and delight.

When you relate to something outside of yourself, you can be free.

Listen to this episode as Roshi John Tarrant muses on having the mind of a dead log.


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The whole of your life has a nobility and truth to it.

— John Tarrant


Show notes:

  • What are dragon murmurings
  • How to handle fear
  • What is the basis of boredom
  • How to settle your mind

All the wrong turns have brought you here, and here is the right place, so they are not wrong turns.

— John Tarrant


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One lantern contains all of them.

— John Tarrant