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Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: Yongjia Xuanjue’s Song of Enlightenment
…this is the great enlightenment of the Tathagata. Transience, emptiness, and enlightenment— These are the ultimate truths of Buddhism; keeping and teaching them is true sangha devotion. If you don’t…
Enlightenment & Jam – Shopping for a Rhinoceros
…could not say. What is enlightenment? A happiness in just this. The universe is always approaching us—let it in. Usually, in pre-enlightenment we notice something is going on but then…
Rhinoceros Shopping – Jam & Enlightenment
…could not say. What is enlightenment? A happiness in just this. The universe is always approaching us—let it in. Usually in pre-enlightenment we notice something is going on, but the…
Enlightenment Is Something We Do Together
Enlightenment Is Something We Do Together Article by John Tarrant Published in Lion’s Roar magazine February 18, 2014 There’s a romantic idea of enlightenment as a solitary and heroic act,…
Let Me Count the Ways
…being made. In so many ways, says John Tarrant, love is like enlightenment. It teaches us how to live down a level, to follow instructions that come from deep inside….
The Nature of Practice
…than an electron is a thing. So at first, they were marketed as gadgets. You put your practice—enlightenment—in here, press the button, and when it’s toasted, enlightenment will pop out…
The Nature of Practice
…thing. So at first they were marketed as gadgets. You put your practice, enlightenment in here, press the button, and when it’s toasted, enlightenment will pop out [laughter] and you…
Sudden Awakening
…I do it because consciousness, koan work, and enlightenment are all social events. And as an artist of the koan world, I like to collect enlightenment stories. It’s interesting to…
Unicorns of Happiness
…a nice enlightenment to go with my espresso please.” The obvious problem with the Get the Loot approach is that loot doesn’t last. My really cool linen jacket from last…
The Power of Koan Practice
…trust in whatever forces had brought the student to the point of asking, and any question was treated as being about enlightenment, whether the student was aware of it or…
The Paradox of Happiness
…Loot are: “Get the Girl” and “Get the Prince.” More subtle variations are “Get the Spiritual Transformation” and “Get the Psychological Adjustment to a Difficult Childhood”—”I’ll take a nice enlightenment…
Enter Here, Step Through
…stopping yet. So just notice, try noticing. And like—you need to do nothing to prove your worth! You need to do nothing to be worthy of enlightenment. You need to…
Awakenings of Linji & the Great Chan Teachers
…something by his effort. And that’s something to notice and to know about yourself too. One of the things I like about Chan and Zen is that enlightenment is something…
The Journey, the Reaching, & Luopu’s Last Words
…say. Deferring things is a way of knowing who I am. “I’m a person who’s on the path.” “There’s no spiritual practice, no enlightenment, no getting anything, no missing out…
Self and Ox Forgotten
…me, this eighth picture is about great inclusiveness. At PZI we say that any small bit of enlightenment is all of enlightenment. Any small piece of seeing the nature (kensho…
Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Poem 4
…this wonderful – this is marketing for enlightenment, right? Wonderful, big enlightenment experience and now I’ll be serene. Au contraire [laughter]. So that’s an interesting thing, that there is a…
You Know Nothing (of Zen) – The Woman at the Inn
…us—because if enlightenment were not in that territory, we’d already be there, right? If it were the same as walking to the corner store, we would have gone there. Walking…
The Method of Zen
…to be satisfied with such trifling gains. Now you must devote yourself to post-Satori training. That’s a mere enlightenment experience. Anyone who really wants to become a Buddha must keep…
About Enlightenment
Allison Atwill at Summer Sesshin 2019 – Talks about enlightenment on July 27th….
6 The Moon Sets At Midnight – The Zenosaurus Course In Koans
…bigger in my mind. I’ve noticed that people’s enlightenment experiences also get bigger with the telling. Editing and adjusting is everywhere. Some people have an aversion to President Obama. But…
Dharma Theme: Zen Luminaries, A Series of Conversations with Jon Joseph Roshi
…The Radiance of the Dark, evoking her vision of an awakening that embraces endarkenment as well as enlightenment. Over the decades, Joan Sutherland’s teaching and writing has explored how koans…
1, 2, 3, 4, Rhinoceros
…that narrative about koans. Meanwhile, one of the few markers of enlightenment that everybody seems to agree upon is that there’s a kind of joy when you are free. It…
Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: Relying on Mind – Sengcan
…you want to enter the One Vehicle, don’t disdain the six senses. Not disdaining the six senses, that’s enlightenment itself. Since things aren’t different in essence, it’s stupid to…
Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
…ordinary, everyday life itself is enlightenment. If you do not lose yourself, then even though you have difficulty, there is actually no problem whatsoever. When your life is always a…
Sutra Book: The Great Heart Sutra – Spoken
…a word that distinguishes this kind of wisdom as the highest form: transcendent wisdom, the wisdom that leads to enlightenment. Various translations include, “perfection,” “that which has gone beyond,” and…
The Heart Sutra
…past, present, and future also take refuge in Prajnaparamita, realizing unexcelled, perfect enlightenment. Here, then, is the great mantra of Prajnaparamita, the mantra of great magic, the unexcelled mantra, the…
Full Bio: John Tarrant Roshi
…in Human Sciences and English Literature. He later earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. He wrote his doctoral thesis on “The Design of Enlightenment in…
Soaking in the Bath, Releases the Light
…children of the Buddha. We’ve become the children of enlightenment. There are a few things, to go through the bits of the koan… I want to start with… the most…
The Heart Sutra and Koans
…know “gate, gate, paragate,” is good enough. Or if you want to repeat – whatever it is – the word “enlightenment” appears in the Heart Sutra, so just “light, light,”…