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Spilling Down Through All the Realms: The Light Inside the Dark
…discover this light through meditation, but our task in life is not just to go back home to where the light came from; our task is to struggle here, with…
Dharma Theme: Your Light
…various types of files: transcript, audio, art, music, and video. ________________________________ What Is Your Light? Following along with John Tarrant’s September theme of ” Light,” in his: Hanging the Lanterns…
The Great Collaborators of the Blue Cliff Record
…Everyone has a light inside. When you try to see it, you can’t. The darkness is dark, dark. What is your light? What is the light that everyone has? What…
10,000 Things
…shine your light. He says shine your light on it. Which I don’t know if you notice, it says your light. That means don’t shine somebody else’s really great light….
10,000 Things
…where he says shine your light. He says shine your light on it. Which I don’t know if you notice, it says your light. That means don’t shine somebody else’s…
The Nature of Practice
…light? Student: I have the light. John: What’s that? Student: I have the light. John: Talk to [other student] then. [laughter] Yeah, so we do. And it’s interesting. So, who…
The Nature of Practice
…S: I have the light. John: Talk to Margaret then. [laughter] Yeah, so we do. And it’s interesting. So who has the light? Everyone: I have the light. John: So…
A True Person of No Rank, No Color, No Gender: Seeing Through All Distinctions
…of light inside. Anna Swir, a great Polish poet said, [recites] Always inside I carry light. Always inside I carry silence. Always I carry light and silence. And that’s that…
I Carry Silence & Light – Muses in the Midst of Turmoil
When we hold light and silence everyone can feel it it changes the field. Anna Swir’s poem, There’s a Light in Me. The light in us is wholly unharmed even…
You Know Nothing (of Zen) – The Woman at the Inn
…say there’s a Pure Land of mind only, and a Buddha of light in your own body. Once that Buddha of light appears, mountains, rivers, earth, grass, trees and forests…
Enter Here, Step Through
…of what you’re talking about. And then you’ll notice there are different strategies. And sometimes the light, what you’re calling the light, which Shitou talks about—is the darkness, he calls…
Soaking in the Bath, Releases the Light
…touch releases the light that is in everything. We have reached the place where the sons and daughters of the Buddha live. Okay, there we are. This is one of…
Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: Yongjia Xuanjue’s Song of Enlightenment
…the same. Mind is the mirror stand, phenomena are dust; yet both are like a flaw in the mirror. When the flaw is wiped clean, the light begins to…
Joy, Mosquitoes & Zen
…“everything shines with a great light” light – it’s also a kind of freedom. “There are no walls in the mind,” as the Heart Sutra says. Underneath all your pain,…
Trapped in a Stone Grave – Rising from Stillness Retreat
…the love we have of life and there isn’t a moment while we’re alive, there isn’t a moment when the light isn’t shining in us. It’s like well the light’s…
Working With Koans
…her. It’s not stupidity, it’s just cluelessness, innocence. So if you start seeing the light, the light is everywhere, and just because someone’s yelling at you doesn’t mean they don’t…
Standing at the Edge
…that light, you walk and eat and drink in that light. When we suffer, we still walk through that light; and when we grieve for what cannot be, and when…
Following the Scent of Flowers
There’s a spaciousness inside all situations. We’re walking through them, and underneath our feet there’s space and light, and around us. And we’re walking through that space and light. That,…
Every Day Is a Good Day
…light, she’s got that light, they call it prajna sometimes, in Sanskrit—that’s the fancy word for it, but “light” is good enough. It’s in us all. You notice when you…
14 When Something Confronts You, Don’t Believe It – The Zenosaurus Course in Koans
…it. When something appears shine your light on it. Have confidence in the light that is always working inside you. –Linji (Pixar Lamp Model) Gateways to the larger life are…
The Everlasting Body Runs Deepest Indigo: Meditation for Troubled Times
…those great things like, “There’s no true foundation to rely on, we all rest walking on emptiness.” We’re walking on light really, I suppose, but light doesn’t really hold us…
How Many Times Have I Gone There for You?
…of things. Going the way they are. Just happy because you’re here. So, you’re walking. You come under trees in a dappled light, just the same light the Buddha used…
13 No – The Zenosaurus Course In Koans
…can think of koans as vials full of the light that the ancestors walked through, and if you can get these vials open you share that light. By getting them…
Unexpected Gifts: 10,000 Feet Down, The Stone
…watching a Minmin light. The light was blue and green and white and fell down across the sky from west to east. Balanjirri and the bird, Bunggridj-Bunggridj, appeared and set…
Heart Sutra Variations
…on it.” Matsu said, everybody said, “Turn your light on it.” And so that’s that thing where, the man says, “I’m reaching for the light; help me.” And the teacher…
Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Poem 1
…the leaf and there was the magic light on the hills tonight and that red light that filmmakers love, and then there’s people’s feet. There’s the preciousness of the thusness…
Ceremonies: Long Readings for Afternoon: from The Record of Linji
…light in your mind—that is the Samboghakaya, the Bliss-body of the Buddha lodged in you. A moment of nondiscriminating light in your mind—that is the Nirmanakaya, the Transformation-body of the…
Falling with the Koan NO
…you try to see it you can’t. The darkness is dark, dark. What is your light? Quickly, before you think about it. Pass me your light, show me your light….
Dharma Theme: Winter Sesshin 2022 – Winter & Silver, Moonlight & Snow
…light. We sit quietly together, the temple bells are inside and outside, and already we are in the new life. —John Tarrant & the Remarkable PZI Teachers: Tess Beasley, Sarah…
Enlightenment Is Something We Do Together
…the retreat. Some combination of meditation and permission encouraged people to talk about things they hadn’t talked about before. Painful stories are often kinder in the light. We often disapprove…