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The Method of Zen
…koans that I had been working on – 25:00 all those venomous catspores ?? that I had been working on were now penetrated completely – right to their roots they…
The Power of Koan Practice
…time, a tyranny perpetrated by Zen masters. . . Well, you get the idea—about koans, opinions differ. If it turns out that koans suit you or—to put it in more…
Working With Koans
…you truly love, and must do. Another way to think of working with a koan is that it’s like going on a date. You have to pay attention, bring flowers,…
13 No – The Zenosaurus Course In Koans
…that time was to teach only koans and nothing but koans and to develop new ways of teaching them, ways that might fit Western culture. Along those lines many possibilities…
Ikkyu’s Well & The Miscellaneous Koans
…real terrain is the vastness, and the strip of white silk. Working with koans David Weinstein, this morning gave a talk about his koan path through the Miscellaneous Koans. And…
1, 2, 3, 4, Rhinoceros
…your book is “Zen Koans to Bring You Joy,” but our understanding is that koans are a way to frustrate the rational mind. Shouldn’t the subtitle be “Zen Koans to…
You Can’t Cage a Koan – Make It a Raft!
…You’ll notice that the issue of improbability is often there, because imagination gets into the koans. And the issue of there being something disturbing is often valuable in the koans….
The Story of the Well Painting
…eye, a kind of movement in the corner of my eye, and I just ignored it, because I was working. So I was working, working, then I see it again….
The Heart Sutra and Koans
And so, I would like to say a couple of things about the Heart Sutra in the context of its relationship to koans and what koans are, and pursue that…
The Nature of Practice
…gifts that might come. So that would be one thing. And that sense that with a koan you’re actually in a relationship, then – you know koans were first marketed…
The Nature of Practice
…futuristic Japanese sort of design. And in a way, I think I couldn’t conceive of things not being a gadget for my mind when I first started koans. So I…
Straight Down the Road of 99 Curves
…say about koans… there’s a way in which certain koans come into you, seem to come into you, and then they do things to you that you hadn’t necessarily agreed…
Sudden Awakening
…regained consciousness, my eyes opened, and as they did, I found that the unsolvable and impenetrable koans I had been working on—all those pointed cat’s paws—were completely penetrated. Right to…
Spirit of Love, Joy & Play in Koans
…with what’s interesting about koans, why we use koans. Koans are the form that came originally out of conversation and poetry, where people would ask a teacher—well, they’d ask them…
Meditation as a Basis for Healing
…koans, which is one of the most reliable ways of going deep. This I discuss koans fairly extensively elsewhere, including on this site in Working With Koans, A Koan Starter…
Unexpected Gifts: 10,000 Feet Down, The Stone
…and interesting mystery in that, in spiritual paths. I’m working on a new book on koans and the path, and one of the things I’m noticing is that the predicament…
2 When Cold & Heat Visit – The Zenosaurus Course in koans
…to walk through your life. Koans are often given in one on one situations; I learned them that way. This course is a Zen 2.0 experiment in working with koans…
Full Bio: John Tarrant Roshi
…Koan Zen” and for twenty years was a Jungian psychotherapist working on dream analysis at the same time as he developed his teaching of koans. Tarrant’s first Buddhist studies, in…
Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Poem 1
…old Chinese poet, and koans and poems were always, poems, koans, koans, poems, they’re always somewhat intertwined in their history. And so often poems were used as koans and vice…
Enter Here, Step Through
Listen to original audio John: Here we are in the middle of sesshin, and—and what? It’s grand. Even without words, it’s grand. So we’re working with this old poem, an…
Falling with the Koan NO
…thing. There was a great collection that later became known as “koans to open the body of reality,” or dharmakaya koans. So this is often called the first gate, but…
Yuanwu & the Great Masters of the Blue Cliff
…a roll call, actually, of the great masters, and also of different types of koans. The first koan that comes is a fundamental koan—an inquiry koan. What is Buddha? Who…
Dharma Theme: Zen Luminaries, A Series of Conversations with Jon Joseph Roshi
Jon Joseph
…& The Awakened Heart, and Acequias & Gates: Miscellaneous Koans and Miscellaneous Writings on Koans. Her work is the subject of a short film, The Radiance of the Dark, evoking…
Koans in Your Life
…lot of jokes around it. Hakuin, the great medieval Japanese master, he thought there were eight koans that were extremely difficult to pass through—hard to pass through koans—and he kind…
Carried in the Dark – On Lostness & the Spiral Path of Practice
…tangled. So, you know, we’re always working it out. In all these ways, we’re working it out. What is the explanation? What will happen if…? And that can be so…
You Know Nothing (of Zen) – The Woman at the Inn
John: Tonight I’d like to show a completely different approach to koans. I’ll do it by reading a story that most of you are familiar with. Yesterday we talked about…
Front Foot & Back Foot Walking
Listen to the Original Audio John: So, today we are working with a great old poem, The darkness is inside the bright, but don’t look only with the eyes of…
Knock on Any Door – Daoist Masters & Zen Koans
…I of all beings, would be outside of the mystery. I’m pretty special actually! Only I don’t have Buddha nature. So this guy is working away, he ‘s working in…
10,000 Things
…is probably, if you’re going to look for a father of koans, if you’re going to settle on one person, he might be it. And he’s this – I’ve had…
Secret Fidelity & One Finger Zen, Even in the Bardos
…I went to study koans in Hawaii, and I lived in a temple for a few years. I realized—all the time, I’d been trying to find what I was finding…