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Dreams of Awakening: A Familiar Face from Long Ago
With dreams, whatever part touches your heart, that’s the part you want. The universe is providing these personal and archetypal myths in the perfect formulation for your awakening. Dreams and…
Dreams Q & A
…but it does have an effect. It’s one of those impossible things we can do. Think I’ll write down my dreams, and suddenly you’ve got dreams to write down, and…
Summer Dreams – Maitreya’s Place
Summer is a time of dreams. Dreams, summertime, and koans have a lot in common. It is a time of permeability, to feel your way. Things that come out of…
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…
No Rank! – Or the Wild Path of Awakening
…things like that. And you notice you start getting dreams about ancestors. And you have affinities with certain ancestors not with others. Some ancestors never bother appearing in my dreams,…
Carl Jung’s Red Book
…garden for two hours, keeping company with her dreams and meditating. I knew my life was in certain ways foolish and even desperate, but around her I could feel light,…
Unexpected Gifts: 10,000 Feet Down, The Stone
…temple together. A nice thing; a favorable thing. Dreams of the Underworld The other thing that happens, I think, in the dark times, is that you get directions from dreams….
Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds
…with Tess, Sarah on Friday. Okay. Sarah: I wanted to plant something for anybody who might be, well for anybody—and that is about dreams. The dreams that are appearing, that…
Dreams of Awakening: Our Dark Fairytale Dreams Are It Too
Allison Atwill tells of a dream, and shares insights on the importance of dreaming dark dreams, our own awakening in that particular form. The universe crafts dreams perfectly—personal fairytales and…
Images & Patterns in Dreams, and Hakuin’s Dream
Tess Beasley comments on the way dreams of awakening can be huge or small, in image and duration. She reads Hakuin’s amazing awakening dream record from his journal. As recorded…
Dreams of Awakening: Our Own Dream Is An Unfamiliar Face & The Giant Pancake
Teachers’ dreams often feature magical ways of feeding an entire community. Michelle Riddle’s remarkable giant pancake dream came after being asked to respond to a teaching from John Tarrant. Excerpt…
The Everlasting Body Runs Deepest Indigo: Meditation for Troubled Times
…and I notice in my dreams and memories and people I knew long ago or people who are dead now—they appear. I feel a welcoming quality towards them. I knew…
A True Person of No Rank, No Color, No Gender: Seeing Through All Distinctions
…her dreams are fresh. And when she dreams she feels like there’s a little bit of craziness at the edge of her mind. Yes, that’s what it’s like! [laughs] A…
Dream Creatures – The Zenosaurus Course on Koans
Dream Creatures – Zenosaurus Dreams play an essential part in the current of life—while I’m not paying attention my dreams turn the lumps, details, and meetings of the day into…
Covid Dreams
Audio: Dreams appear nightly reminding us not to chase shadows, and lose sight of our lives. They are the lives we are telling and showing….
Dreams of Awakening: It’s Gold Wherever You Are!
Dreams help us because we can’t control them. You have it already and are looking past it. The light is wherever you are. Excerpt from John Tarrant’s complete Sunday session…
Hearing Secret Harmonies: Koans & Dreams
Koans and the dream world: Secret harmonies are on our side whether we think they are there or not, and whether we look for them or not. A dreamlike koan,…
Every Day Is a Good Day
…telling you this. No judgment, really. The thing for me that happens then is that I dream, I usually dream. The dreams are often working things out—not working things out…
Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: Relying on Mind – Sengcan
…opposition under the sun just comes from your thoughts. Like dreams, illusions, spots before your eyes— why bother grasping at them? Gain and loss, right and wrong— let them go,…
You Know Nothing (of Zen) – The Woman at the Inn
…somebody asked me what I did, sometimes I’d say, “Zen. Koans.” And so, then I had to explain that—and so I’d say, “I work with dreams.” And people would invariably…
Predicament Koans – John Tarrant 2013
…dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a giant insect.” So, just in case you think you have a predicament! [laughter] Predicament comes form the Latin word, predicare….
A Spell for Passing Through Danger
…cold kill you. When it’s hot, let the heat kill you. PZI members report on dreams and John shares one of his own. The tenderness of all meetings, even in…
Unexpected Gifts, Unexpected Help Along the Way
…dream, finches like thoughts blowing in the air. Meeting animals in the realm of dreams, we enter the “one strip of white silk” world. A nut hatch allows a human…
Some Treasures of the Lost Cities
…also a quest, a treasure hunt, through cities overtaken by sands and ghosts and overwhelmed by the sea. We search for hidden teachings in scrolls, clay tablets, or dreams. The…
Dharma Theme: Summer Sesshin 2021 in the Palace at the Blue Cliff
…silences, moments of humor, tech gremlins, tears, synchronicities, dogs barking, dreams and awakenings that we share. It is a precious moment of timeless play in the universe and with each…
More Spells for Passing Through Danger & Demons
…Mariner Tess Beasley reads from James Hillman’s Dreams and the Blood Soul It’s not always clear what’s a demon and what isn’t. Demons bring gifts sometimes! On befriending the dream:…