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Yunmen

,

awakening

,

koan practice

,

being on the path

,

meditation

,

Mazu

,

Linji

,

journeys

,

Dongshan

,

Guanyin

,

enlightenment

,

dreams

,

Zhaozhou

,

inquiry

,

not knowing

,

bodhisattva

,

form and emptiness

,

Hakuin

,

the spiritual journey

,

having a practice

,

animals

,

miscellaneous koans

,

intimacy

,

vows

,

transformation

,

Bodhidharma

,

death and dying

,

refuge

,

empty nature

,

Covid pandemic

,

just this

,

the mysterious

,

light

,

meeting difficulty

,

dragons

,

poetry

,

call and response

,

your light

,

compassion

,

predicaments

,

meetings

,

Basho

,

sickness and medicine

,

Zhuangzi

,

fire

,

great silence

,

waking up together

,

Zenosaurus

,

the Great Way

,

wandering

,

things coming forth

,

the Dao

,

freedom

,

being lost

,

happiness

,

having joy

,

Shitou

,

Huineng

,

taking refuge

,

love

,

unexpected gifts

,

encounters

,

meeting the moment

,

buddha nature

,

companionship

,

Li Bai

,

friendship

,

listening

,

not picking and choosing

,

times of great difficulty

,

ancestors

,

on pilgrimage

,

descent

,

the Valley Spirit

,

haiku

,

the moon

,

Baling

,

interwoven

,

vows as koans

,

curricula

,

making a self

,

Jinqing

,

Yuanwu

,

true nature

,

Jiashan

,

a solitary boat

,

in the bath

,

original face

,

welcome to sesshin

,

uncertainty

,

Xuefeng

,

Dogen

,

true person

,

being the host

,

always changing

,

being in the dark

,

say something

,

climate change

,

precepts

,

moving in the dark

,

tumultuous times

,

Daodejing

,

Daoism

,

demons

,

Dahui

,

beauty

,

the vastness

,

kindness

,

Story of the Buddha

,

Emperor Wu

,

intro to practice

,

dark and bright

,

creativity

,

Huangbo

,

Dalong

,

Czesław Miłosz

,

Shishuang

,

trusting

,

midnight

,

Yamada Koun

,

hearing

,

peace

,

Baizhang

,

ordinary mind

,

Laozi

,

Guishan

,

Deshan

,

loss

,

suffering

,

Du Fu

,

the universe

,

Tony Hoagland

,

new year

,

the nature of mind

,

transmission

,

carried in the dark

,

guitar and vocals

,

silence

,

home

,

the universe at play

,

Rainer Maria Rilke

,

according with the Dao

,

Issa

,

the red thread

,

peach blossoms

,

solitary brightness

,

being carried

,

wisdom gates

,

body of reality

,

healing

,

falling

,

Diamond Sutra

,

fear

,

delusion

,

connection

,

Xuedou

,

poetry by John Tarrant

,

stuck

,

Taneda Santoka

,

Chan roots

,

teachers

,

Ikkyu

,

Bankei

,

Yangshan

,

stories

,

Yunyan

,

synchronicity

,

the-eternal

,

metamorphosis

,

Shunryu Suzuki

,

way-seeking mind

,

heart-opening

,

everything is here

,

stepping off

,

spirit of play

,

Wumen

,

Heart Sutra

,

disaster

,

springtime

,

Daowu

,

gratitude

,

Hongzhi

,

Anna Swir

,

empathy

,

disorderly karmic consciousness

,

Naomi Shihab Nye

,

sounds

,

tea ladies

,

Wuzu

,

heartache

,

living down a level

,

beginnings and endings

,

anxiety

,

surprise

,

the storehouse of treasures

,

pain

,

the Buddha

,

Changsha

,

Avalokiteshvara

,

separation

,

kensho

,

Fayan

,

being at ease

,

Jane Hirshfield

,

Kanzeon

,

destruction

,

karma

,

great questions

,

guitar solos

,

inclusion

,

ordinary life

,

mountains

,

birth and death

,

cause and effect

,

Doushuai

,

spaciousness

,

doubt

,

good and bad

,

taking the risk

,

integration

,

water

,

flute solos

,

immensity

,

no rank

,

Duke Zhi

,

Seamus Heaney

,

conversations

,

translation

,

lineages

,

reaching

,

Su Dungpo

,

the vessel of practice

,

earth consciousness

,

Japan

,

deep knowing

,

nothing to do

,

great forces

,

attention

,

goddesses

,

abiding nowhere

,

the unexpected

,

women ancestors

,

music

,

student and teacher

,

memory

,

political life

,

generosity

,

Manjusri

,

strategies of the self

,

brightness

,

step by step

,

not getting it

,

Gerard Manley Hopkins

,

delight

,

blessings

,

Wislawa Szymborska

,

prajna

,

alchemy

,

vessels

,

Land of Demons

,

enjoy yourself

,

Elizabeth Bishop

,

stopping

,

grief

,

David Hinton

,

Chan poets

,

saxophone solos

,

Indigenous ways

,

magical meetings

,

loving your life

,

Boat Monk

,

dark material

,

Kamakura

,

ancient trees

,

Oxherding Pictures

,

shelter

,

gathering

,

community

,

danger

,

lost and found

,

the field of sesshin

,

gaps

,

Yu

,

meditation fundamentals

,

readings

,

stepping through

,

feeling separate

,

lockdown

,

enter here

,

spirit and soul

,

identity

,

poverty

,

psychotherapy

,

Australia

,

The Wishing Bone Cycle

,

myths

,

inner life

,

koan types

,

huatou

,

time

,

control

,

being beloved

,

stillness

,

Pure Land

,

radiance

,

having nothing

,

interconnection

,

Marie Howe

,

rafts

,

ferryboats

,

chants

,

rakshasas

,

worry

,

impossible tasks

,

being on retreat

,

rakusus

,

following trackless paths

,

desire

,

spells

,

Pang Family

,

songwriting

,

Yantou

,

treasures

,

Morten Schlütter

,

being stuck

,

letting go

,

not having the wrong life

,

donuts

,

traveling

,

wildness

,

illness

,

unexpected help

,

trusting in the Dao

,

N Scott Momaday

,

staying

,

group facilitation

,

mindfulness

,

secret harmonies

,

being trapped

,

Raymond Carver

,

things as they are

,

rituals

,

being restless

,

seamlessness

,

The Light Inside the Dark

,

Engakuji

,

family

,

underworld

,

loneliness

,

secret fidelity

,

welcoming what's here

,

seeing

,

samadhi

,

nothing to rely on

,

searching

,

immersion

,

ballads

,

Richard Wilbur

,

ghosts

,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

,

solo voyages

,

the purpose of your life

,

trusting in your light

,

William Blake

,

losing things

,

humor

,

Walt Whitman

,

free and easy wandering

,

relationships

,

funerals

,

leadership

,

the shadow

,

Carl Jung

,

Muzhou

,

Layman Pang

,

drenched

,

Red Pine

,

confusion

,

The Mother Deep

,

Song Dynasty

,

chaos times

,

resistance

,

vulnerability

,

Egyptian love poems

,

the golden-haired lion

,

paradox

,

Denise Levertov

,

being born

,

hermits

,

Han Shan

,

resurrection

,

painted cranes

,

being homeless

,

Dasui

,

racism

,

not doing

,

Kun the Great Fish

,

regret

,

Louise Gluck

,

W. S. Merwin

,

forgetting and remembering

,

Pico Iyer

,

coming and going

,

quests

,

no complaints

,

the unknown

,

Robert Hass

,

Robert Creeley

,

being accompanied

,

The Iliad

,

seeking

,

pecking

,

impermanence

,

chaos of life

,

returning

,

coincidences

,

earth

,

Antonio Machado

,

rain

,

Joan Sutherland

,

consciousness

,

koan history

,

Shambhala Sun

,

performance art

,

mantras

,

Jinniu

,

purification

,

goblins

,

Luopu

,

Vimalakirti

,

Daiyu

,

doing it wrong

,

praise

,

magic

,

it's alive!

,

Lewis Hyde

,

certainty

,

buddhas

,

discovery

,

Lankavatara Sutra

,

carrying light and silence

,

Lingzhao Pang

,

Nakagawa

,

true world

,

transparency

,

landscape

,

Alexie Sherman

,

the faerie realm

,

Caterhaugh

,

wild places

,

Caoshan

,

Mary Oliver

,

Vasilisa the Brave

,

wonder

,

Tortoise Mountain

,

rituals of love

,

anger

,

Sandokai

,

Kuon Shihyuan

,

fathers

,

confidence

,

John Milton

,

being distracted

,

turning into the difficulty

,

frustration

,

Juan Ramón Jimenez

,

Alberto Rios

,

travelers

,

The Little Prince

,

Thomas Kirchner

,

worst horse

,

giving

,

war

,

secret affinities

,

clarity

,

Susan Murphy

,

the soul in Zen

,

Juzhi (Judi)

,

the imagination

,

the universe pouring through

,

mistakes

,

prajnaparamita

,

morning star

,

the song man

,

dark enigma

,

hell

,

crisis

,

homeleaving

,

ink drawings

,

Ocean Vuong

,

homecoming

,

leave-taking

,

fairy tales

,

Martin Amis

,

Takuan Soho

,

one strip of white silk

,

helping others

,

Heads of Practice

,

turning words

,

doing nothing

,

dialogues

,

dark roads

,

bagpipes

,

comparisons

,

how to meditate

,

strange teachers

,

the body

,

mothers

,

being imperfect

,

dharanis

,

destitution

,

dissolution

,

paying attention

,

Huizhong

,

Suzong

,

struggles

,

curiosity

,

expectations

,

Cloud Gate

,

turning things around

,

livestreams

,

Maitreya

,

Takagi Shrine

,

great doubt

,

Odysseus

,

Miaozong

,

satori

,

Prajnatara

,

noticing

,

protection

,

the other

,

belonging

,

solitude

,

isolation

,

avoidance

,

movement

,

bardos

,

songs

,

stinginess

,

dilemmas

,

gardening

,

improv

,

no fixed position

,

Anna Akhmatova

,

out of nowhere

,

embodying the koan

,

Indra's Net

,

Michael Wilding

,

lamps

,

lighting a lamp

,

direct realization

,

Wallace Stevens

,

Nanao Sakaki

,

mixed media

,

sailing

,

Wordsworth

,

hidden in plain sight

,

Halloween

,

dokusan

,

solstice

,

terra incognita

,

Primo Levi

,

Garnette Cadogan

,

Walking While Black

,

Sengcan

,

Xinxin Ming

,

sorrow

,

naming

,

alembic

,

chronic pain

,

Four Noble Truths

,

shamanism

,

Kay Ryan

,

tenderness

,

not holding back

,

the unconscious

,

James Hillman

,

Christopher Smart

,

William Merwin

,

mysterious tasks

,

Shiki

,

mirrors

,

David Chadwick

,

Dante

,

amnesty

,

expression

,

possibilities

,

Whitsun Wedding

,

Philip Larkin

,

duality

,

Milan Kundera

,

Roberto Calasso

,

galaxies

,

Jizo

,

Tomas Transtromer

,

Ballad of Tam Lin

,

extinction

,

Xiangyan

,

tricksters

,

W. H. Auden

,

scorn

,

getting it wrong

,

Issan Dorsey

,

lack

,

coping

,

metaphor

,

ocean

,

Polynesia

,

turbulence

,

Tupaia

,

Chateaubriand

,

donkeys

,

Earthlyn Manuel

,

Loch Ness Monster

,

caves

,

creatures

,

hospice

,

cosmic mandalas

,

no barriers in the mind

,

tourists

,

Ruth Ozeki

,

time-being

,

writing

,

Kyoto

,

Yaoshan

,

anguish

,

dharmakaya

,

sunkenness

,

surrender

,

intractability

,

fishing

,

Westlin' Winds

,

tradition

,

feeling the time

,

burdens

,

Frank Ostaseski

,

pickles

,

Beauty and the Beast

,

Belinda and the Monster

,

Hawai'ian myth

,

King Kamehameha

,

mercy

,

Stanley Kunitz

,

Achilles

,

Hector

,

refusal

,

swimming

,

Budai

,

King Priam

,

cycles

,

Kim Stanley Robinson

,

Paul Celan

,

Oliver Sacks

,

Paradise Lost

,

sci-fi

,

Mark Epstein

,

Governor Jerry Brown

,

Mother Teresa

,

ambition

,

contemplation

,

not objecting to life

,

Holy Grail

,

Parsifal (Percival)

,

Fisher King

,

grail

,

Crane in the Moonlight

,

remembering Corey Hitchcock

,

consolation

,

First Duino Elegy

,

setting out

,

appreciation

,

harmony

,

kinship

,

elections

,

monsters

,

Lisel Mueller

,

Adam Zagajewski

,

Moby Dick

,

Eros & Psyche

,

Homer

,

Emily Wilson

,

warriors

,

Ryokan

,

Fengxue

,

laughter

,

jokes

,

Bill Porter

,

Dancing with the Dead

,

Ward Serill

,

Spring Chen

,

having an agenda

,

Chase Twichell

,

Dr. Seuss

,

Henry Shukman

,

Sanbo Zen

,

calming the mind

,

innocence

,

Koshin Paley Ellison

,

elder care

,

Maurice Sendak

,

Where the Wild Things Are

,

Edward Espe Brown

,

cooking

,

longing

,

Pablo Neruda

,

Steve Walker

,

endarkenment

,

Touzi

,

tathagata

,

dance

,

unicorns

,

giving birth

,

being confined

,

flying

,

no foundation

,

dark gates

,

making art

,

hands and eyes

,

the red sky

,

messiness

,

dedications

,

no merit

,

books by John Tarrant

,

hungry ghosts

,

Neoconfucianism

,

the five elements

,

insects

,

Charles Peek

,

Zen in America

,

Helen Tworkov

,

simplicity

,

the inconceivable

,

Danyuan

,

beginner's mind

,

fate

,

daemon

,

just being

,

obstacles

,

culture

,

Ruth Fuller Sasaki

,

puppets

,

waiting

,

Lama Yeshe

,

depression

,

Chogyam Trungpa

,

essays

,

sculpture

,

wuwei

,

Robert Aitken

,

Sambhogakaya

,

gestational time

,

South Mountain

,

disruptions

,

denial

,

departures

,

illumination

,

grace

,

Yao Mountain

,

Seung Sahn

,

Ritchie Domingue

,

Lindworm Tale

,

Master Crag

,

No-Gate Gateway

,

wanting

,

Ekai

,

Mumon

,

David Byrne

,

liberation

,

opposition

,

scarcity

,

distress

,

fun

,

doing the opposite

,

discomfort

,

off course

,

Jusef Kaminyaka

,

Dostoevsky

,

faults

,

The Dangerous Shirt

,

gardens

,

Mistress District Fan

,

Tabor

,

Takahashi

,

the well

,

the wind

,

shunyata

,

projection

,

Momiyo

,

nothing to hide

,

no trace

,

Buma Devi

,

pathos

,

shaggy-dog koans

,

Nazim Hikmet

,

Lucille Clifton

,

Chana Bloch

,

visual art

,

Yakong

,

Green Mountain

,

Harada

,

Heavenly Dragon

,

Bai Juyi

,

Meng Haoran

,

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

,

Quiyan's eyebrows

,

collages

,

chasing about

,

relaxation

,

Four Green Fields

,

dregs

,

Tang Dynasty

,

unlooked-for help

,

David Hockney

,

taking the backward step

,

courage

,

legends

,

commentaries

,

losing everything

,

increments

,

Jim Harrison

,

Shu Yin

,

tathagatagarbha

,

checking questions

,

Panshan

,

force of the feminine

,

humility

,

modesty

,

Margaret Atwood

,

Robert Frost

,

Wendell Berry

,

Muriel Rukeyser

,

dedication

,

Johannes Vermeer

,

cuckoos

,

Adrienne Rich

,

Jack Gilbert

,

Tom McGrath

,

the current matter

,

Yousef Koumenyaka

,

Onono Kamachi

,

Izumi Shubikkyu

,

Ramana Maharshi

,

Lee Yan Lee

,

Franz Kafka

,

William Carlos Williams

,

Shakyamuni

,

Mara

,

contradictions

,

herbs

,

Changqin

,

John Cage

,

Bob Marley

,

Billy Collins

,

Les Murray

,

Barbara Hamby

,

thresholds

,

Robert Hopke's Synchronicity

,

manifestation

,

doorways

,

Miaodao

,

Danxia

,

Dhammapada

,

resentment

,

bitterness

,

T.S. Eliot

,

placebos

,

Joseph Conrad

,

Coleridge

,

entanglement

,

thusness

,

social media

,

epiphanies

,

involuntary processes

,

The Red Book

,

money

,

equanimity

,

flirting

,

embarrassment

,

John Keats

,

molasses jacket

,

Blood Soul

,

Dante's Inferno

,

Saint Exupery

,

Yellow Crane Pavilion

,

Peter Hershock

,

The Hermitage Among Them

,

Ananda

,

nourishment

,

Michael Hofmann

,

Song of Enlightenment

,

Ferlinghetti

,

Lingyun

,

Peter Coyote

,

Leonard Cohen

,

Upside-Down Zen

,

Derek Wolcott

,

Marianne Moore

,

the owl and the bell

,

Torei Zenji

,

Puhua

,

release

,

Charlotte Beradt

,

Marie-Louise von Franz

,

bearing it

,

koanville

,

respect

,

presence

,

exhaustion

,

Decheng

,

Daiwu

,

GuoGu

,

Jianyuan

,

Nanyue

,

Gerald Murnane

,

Jeffrey Mishlove

,

George Bilgere

,

I Ching

,

silent illumination

,

trusting the silence

,

remembering

,

Maralung

,

emergence

,

Genjokoan

,

laypeople

,

Iron Cliffs

,

Silver Mountains

,

wilderness

,

panic

,

Daishin

,

faith

,

effort

,

Ku'ling Legend

,

Socrates

,

touch

,

being curious

,

Buson

,

Jane Kenyon

,

adrift

,

exile

,

initiation

,

burning house

,

last words

,

great matter

,

Heraclitus

,

passion

,

translucence

,

Byron Katie

,

Stephen Mitchell

,

the absolute

,

Mark Dotey

,

Brothers Grimm

,

fields

,

the forest

,

responding

,

rivers

,

helplessness

,

sacrifices

,

Gerald Stern

,

Gbenga Adesina

,

resting

,

Italo Calvino

,

mirror neurons

,

trusting the field

,

Jiufeng

,

navigation

,

Vipassana

,

insight

,

Rose Joseph

,

being imprisoned

,

field effects

,

mortality

,

gods

,

Troy

,

Hojoki

,

being unprepared

,

striving

,

source

,

the mysterious feminine

,

Sansheng

,

Wuzi

,

Qian

,

disparaging others

,

indulging

,

gossiping

,

intoxication

,

lying

,

sex

,

stealing

,

killing

,

Delphine Moss

,

failure

,

the theater

,

stumbling

,

Shoushan

,

demolition

,

being human

,

comfort

,

Yehuda Amichai

,

absurdity

,

benevolence

,

filial piety

,

the environment

,

therapy and Zen

,

saturation

,

Yongjia Xuanjue

,

Master GuoGu

,

voyages

,

urgency

,

Lingzhao

,

being at home

,

The Doors

,

breaking through

,

invitations

,

ukelele and vocals

,

finding things

,

artificial intelligence