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Where Do You Go, Oh Where Do You Go When You Die?
…and entered our dreams. At the same time, I considered this daunting query, “Where do we go when we die?” Questions about death and the after-death are a part of…
The Everlasting Body Runs Deepest Indigo: Meditation for Troubled Times
…[reads] Dreaming of Li Bai Death at least gives separation repose, without death its grief only sharpens. [So—he doesn’t know about his friend.] You drift malarial south lands beyond the…
Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Poem 4
…that it has to do with my relationship to death. Because when I think about death I realize that I have kind of this insidious little thing that thinks if…
Dharma Theme: Zen Luminaries, A Series of Conversations with Jon Joseph Roshi
…degree I maintained interest in them,” but was still restless and vaguely dissatisfied. At age 68, “Sickness, old age and death had become tangible to me in ways that had…
Zen Luminaries: The Suzuki Roshi Legacy – with Zen Priest & Writer David Chadwick
David Chadwick, Shunryu Suzuki’s biographer and archivist, talks about his Zen teacher’s legacy 50 years after his death. So even though you may sit watching something like a sunflower [laughs]—there…
The Great Way Is Not Difficult
…or more painlessly. What she was doing was good enough. I wanted my mother to have the death that was hers and saw that only she could know what that…
Surprises on the Way: Article by John Tarrant
…the fan noise became really loud. I was alone in New York City and lonely, and didn’t even connect the stress with my friend’s death. The acute stuff is what…
Navigating a Disaster: How Do We Do This?
An essay and talk by Rachel Boughton, Roshi How to deal with difficult times is fundamental for a spiritual practice, and really, for any human life. There’s birth and death,…
Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds
…there’s that quality about things. The other quality is about, you know, death. In the Buddha story, death was the thing that was hidden. The Buddha story is kind of—probably…
Gifts, Gods in Disguise, & Freedom
…suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get…
The Impossibility of My Death
Michelle comments on a sense of the impossibility of death that runs underneath all our striving to ‘get it right’ in this life. Recorded June 5, 2022. 3 minutes….
Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: Yongjia Xuanjue’s Song of Enlightenment
…Qi, [Tsao-Chee] I know what is beyond the relativity of birth and death. Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen; speaking or silent, active or quiet, the essence is at…
Joy, Mosquitoes & Zen
…roads of ignorance Dark road after dark road When will we be free from birth and death? Meditation can’t be praised enough! The good effects of generosity and discipline…
Sutra Book: The Great Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra – Sung Version
…no smell. No taste, no touch, no thought. No seeing and so on to no thinking. No ignorance, no end of ignorance. No old age and no death. No…
Fall Sesshin 2021: Dreams of the Ancestors with Jon Joseph
…has developed since his death, bringing a sense of closure and joy. The universe is at play, and we can dive into our dreams and the dream of the world…
A Map for Getting Lost
…it. We know we will die, but we don’t know what that means either. Meditation gets you friendlier with life and death. Walker a long-time member of PZI and Springs…
Unexpected Gifts: 10,000 Feet Down, The Stone
…stirring. Death is hardly more bitter. And yet, to treat the good I found there as well, I’ll tell what I saw. Though how I came to enter I cannot…
Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: From The Record of Linji
…death.” Followers of the Way, the Dharma of the buddhas calls for no special undertakings. Just act ordinary, without trying to do anything particular. If, wherever you are, you take…
Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: The Ninth Duino Elegy – Rainer Maria Rilke
…my blood. Unspeakably I have belonged to you, from the first. You were always right, and your holiest inspiration is our intimate companion, Death. Look, I am living. On…
Unexpected Gifts, Unexpected Help Along the Way
…Acknowledge, Case 96 Jiufeng lived at Shishuang’s monastery as his attendant. After Shishuang’s death, the gathering wanted the head student to succeed him as abbot. Jiufeng did not acknowledge him….
A Beautiful Wish (You Are the Sun…)
…to an end. We can’t step away from our death. We can’t contrive not to be there when a bomb goes off. By definition we are walking in the dark…
Carl Jung’s Red Book
…This is also of course true of love, death, and eating breakfast. Jung conveyed this really well. Jung’s journey is interesting, harrowing, ridiculous, pompous, incomprehensible, amusing, sad, frightening, wise—the whole…
Podcast Interview: David Chadwick Interviews John Tarrant
…with the Soto master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi at San Francisco Zen Center. He was ordained as a priest in 1971 before Suzuki Roshi’s death that year, and worked in the…
Dharma Theme – Metamorphosis: Collected Audio from Fall Sesshin 2021
…death; in this life you will become a fox, a star, the Loch Ness Monster, a mountain dancing, a tree in a high wind, a fire, a river, a flying…
Zen Luminaries: A Conversation with Peter Hershock hosted by Jon Joseph
…of warfare and privation that resulted in the dislocation or death of vast numbers of Chinese. In this context, Chan can be viewed as a counter-cultural movement. Chan’s description of…
Zen Luminaries: Following the Red Thread – Hosho Peter Coyote’s Poetry, Life & Teaching
…the firm outlines of my body…” liver spots, lost stamina, a static career in film. “Sickness, old age and death had become tangible to me in ways that had only…
A Morning of Amnesty
…ferryboat for others. Our gestures toward the world take us further. The difficult and painful things do not diminish us. Easter approaches the exile of death, but no one is…
Dharma Theme – Zen 2.0: John Tarrant on Zen Koans – Zenosaurus Articles 1-19
…Treasure Hidden In The Body 17 – That Wild Girl Named Pang 18 – Gratitude: Care and Feeding Of 19 – Heroine’s Journey with Sieve: All About Life and Death…
The Lion with the Golden Hair
…about the extras: death and taxes. Whatever’s happening right now, it’s for you. That’s what the lion says, “It’s for you, dear.” Golden-haired lion. [bell] Chocolate Mousse Thinking about a…