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The Nature of Practice
…we hear this, and we say it to ourselves and then we say, “Oh, that’s right.” Not knowing is most intimate, because you’re not pushing the world off—and there’s this…
The Nature of Practice
…there’s a koan: not knowing is most intimate. Over and over again we hear this and we say it to ourselves and then we say oh, that’s right. Not knowing…
Goblins Q & A
…somehow we’ll have the courage to be intimate with them as they are. And if we’re the ones dying, the courage to be intimate with ourselves as we are. Or…
Ordinary Mind Q & A
…that is more intimate even though the content you’re sharing is it’s not intimate. That’s that thing about again, give me the reaching, give me what’s alive, so part of…
Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Poem 4
…it, the question asked at a really personal kind of intimate level is, if it is for you, then it’s for you. And if you’re going to have your life,…
Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
Using the koans Not Knowing is Most Intimate and Taking the Form of Guan Yin Find Shelter for the Homeless Person, John Tarrant talks about the intimacy that comes when…
Stop the War
…and painful of external wars, and people had an intimate and close experience of war. Their time was actually not that different from ours. There’s a lot of war in…
Loving This Life
…in spite of the fact that we say it [?]– and if there’s an intimate conversation you need to have with a friend – I know this is a sangha…
Heart Sutra Variations
…– then it’s intimate and it’s incredibly tender and loving. I had a bunch of people this afternoon who were kind of in that place coming through. One of them…
Awakenings of Linji & the Great Chan Teachers
…been talking about “not knowing is intimate.” And you can tell, Oh, teaching knowing is not as good as teaching not knowing. Because the whole universe can pour in and…
Every Day Is a Good Day
…it’s so great, that’s why we like it. That’s what’s saving for us. That’s why the good day is so intimately tied with the not-knowing. Not-knowing is most intimate because…
The Heart Sutra and Koans
…it hard, because I was very close to him and it felt kind of intimate with him. And so that was the Heart Sutra’s way of getting me to stay…
Fall Sesshin 2021: Not Knowing & the Mysterious, Ungraspable World
KOAN: Dizang asked Fayan, “Where are you going from here?” Fayan said, “I’m on pilgrimage.” “What sort of thing is pilgrimage?” “I don’t know.” “Not knowing is most intimate.” Fayan…
Placebo, Chronic Fatigue & Dormitive Principles
…not knowing, a domain in which it can go on moving toward understanding. Another Zen saying goes, Not knowing is the most intimate. —John Tarrant Link to original article: Placebo,…
Albert Saijo and the Long Journey – The Zenosaurus Course on Koans
…wrote in “caps” but in different colored ink, which made his manuscripts intimate, dark, sweet, and giddy all at once. It’s more or less what you might think if you…
Carl Jung’s Red Book
…dream, though, is intimate and tells something about who you really are. The deep psyche has an autonomy the way nature does. You have to work with dreams down at…
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…
Enlightenment Is Something We Do Together
…intimate with the trees and the stars; it’s as if the birds fly through us and the stars shine in our chests. Everyone I meet, their emotions, thoughts, and hopes…
Self and Ox Forgotten
…the chunking of the chipper, and it sounded just right. Familiar. RRRRrrrr. RRRRrrrr. Intimate. I did not want it to stop. But talking about it is difficult. —Jon Joseph Roshi…
Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds
…intimate contact with them. Looking forward to that perhaps later today. Jordan’s music carried me like those birds that were flying through the sky of the koan. But when the…
16 A Treasure Hidden In The Body – The Zenosaurus Course In Koans
…for New Year’s resolutions. The body listens to others and is in an intimate communion with them, regardless of my opinions about them. This intimacy is a way I go…
10 Save A Ghost – The Zenosaurus Course In Koans
…to life at different levels. You become more intimate with your ghosts, they reveal more of their helpfulness. They become nearer than breathing. Yet More Questions: 1. If you were…
14 When Something Confronts You, Don’t Believe It – The Zenosaurus Course in Koans
…Here it is.’ What you have always longed for has arrived. Even when nothing is done to transform your life, you can see through the moment, it becomes intimate and…
Living in the Moment
…light moving across the floor, and how tremendously intimate and nourishing that experience is, and that we can rely on the whole situation that we’re in to make itself. So…
Iraq in the heart
…hunching over, goes on reaching, unfailed, in another dimension. It shows how intimate they are, my enemies, how much like me. And now that I have seen their death, I’ll…