Description
You’re supposed to be happy but you feel sick, or you laugh when you’re sad. It’s why buying gizmos does not console us, because the big lumbering aurochs doesn’t care about gizmos.
Summary
John Tarrant, Allison Atwill, & Tess Beasley explore a famous line from the Lankavatara Sutra:
Things are not as they appear, nor are they otherwise.
In any given moment we think we know what’s what, but then there’s this other thing happening; the big lumbering aurochs that runs the universe is just ambling along beneath the surface.
Discrepancies appear between our ideas and experience and uncertainty seeps in, which is far more interesting.
You’re supposed to be happy but you feel sick, or you laugh when you’re sad. It’s why buying gizmos does not console us, because the big lumbering aurochs doesn’t care about gizmos.
Awakening is about befriending the aurochs, even praising it.
Sunday Zen with John Tarrant, Allison Atwill, & Tess Beasley on March 22nd, 2026
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