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Girl Power! To Wake or Not Wake A Girl From Samadhi
Sarah Bender
Audio PZI Zen Online: Sarah Bender Roshi unfolds a beautiful guided koan meditation from GGcase 42. Who is this mysterious girl who keeps company with Shakyamuni? She who can not be wakened except by ‘Delusive Wisdom’ or Momiyo from the underworld? When did she arrive? In moments of separation what wakes us? What is this insistence that wakes us? Waking or not waking it is all ‘an elegant performance!’ As recorded July 8 2020
92' 59" July 29, 2020 -
Sesshin Sunday Evening & Closing – The Grand Beast of Sesshin
John Tarrant, Jordan McConnell, Michael Wilding, Michelle Riddle, Ryan McCoy, Tess Beasley
Audio session: Blue Dragon’s Cave closing session – The grand beast of sesshin! Old dragon & tygher teachers meeting new teachers. A text on powers of dragons. Machado poem – ‘Only a wake behind us.’ Intimacy of Mazu’s dharma – ‘How are you?’ Sesshin is a work of art like rakusu. We are ‘always temporarily assembling ourselves’. All faults included in the cave. Mazu – as practice deepens make yourself a raft to transport others. Carrying the Dao is what you are! Music – Flute Michael Wilding, guitar singing Jordan MCConnell Cantor Amy Fletcher, Jan Brogan, HOP.
89' 6" July 16, 2020 -
Vials of Light Sesshin Saturday Eve
Amaryllis Fletcher, John Tarrant, Jordan McConnell, Ryan McCoy
Audio session: Blue Dragon’s Cave Sesshin – Saturday eve – John’s dream of Orion. We accord with the Dao. What part of your life does not have value? Buddha nature is expressing itself through you. Voles 🙂 or vials of light: original light we call koans, which kindle lightin us. Always there even in a dark tangled place. Everything showing up is the koan! Memory in the cave – how they are whole and vivid.
89' 6" July 16, 2020 -
Banging on the Door of the House of Treasures?
David Weinstein
Audio Excerpt: David’s Sunday morning talk on the Storehouse of Treasures, the flipside of the Blue Dragon’s Cave. It can’t be forced open. And the very things I fear most, that imprison me are actually the treasure. how many times have I missed the door opening on its own? June 28 2020
4' 27" July 10, 2020 -
Don’t Try to Cage the Blue Dragon
John Tarrant
Audio excerpt: Koans are much more than ‘tools’ – they do you! Your very heart mind is it, so have the intimacy of your life even into death. Friday eve. Summer Sesshin 2020.
3' 0" July 10, 2020 -
The Elephant in the Room – Dream of the Totality of Being
John Tarrant
Audio excerpt: John Tarrant Roshi recounts a Sesshin dream – insight on meditation practice. Saturday June 27th.
4' 19" July 10, 2020 -
Be a Tiger at Home in the Mountains, Opening Summer Sesshin – Into the Cave of the Blue Dragon
John Tarrant, Michelle Riddle
Audio session – Opening the Cave of the Blue Dragon retreat with John Tarrant & Michelle Riddle. John talks about meditation at sesshin. Stories: District Mistress Fan & Yuan Wu -‘so near at hand’. Tabor’s poem. So easy to think I am not enough. Xing Quin ‘One drop just ink – 2 drops a dragon is born’. We are each in community and discovering together. Yunmen’s ‘Talking to a rock’. Alan Watts – Letting go – ‘Dont prevent the world from falling apart’. Be a tiger at home in the mountains. Closing prayer: Cantor Amaryllis Fletcher, Jordan McConnell – the four vows. Jon Joseph, Roshi evening words. Thursday June 25, 2020
38' 16" July 10, 2020 -
Walking on the Red Sky & Navigating Your Bodhisattva Raft
John Tarrant
Audio excerpt: John Tarrant, Roshi on meeting our difficult time, quoting Master Ma and Yuanwu. Friday evening at Summer Sesshin
3' 47" July 10, 2020 -
Discoveries, Pearls, Treasure Found in the Blue Dragon’s Cave
John Tarrant, Tess Beasley
Audio excerpt: Tess Beasley invites a final sharing of discoveries in the Blue Dragon’s Cave from all participants.
35' 2" July 16, 2020 -
8' 58" July 10, 2020 -
‘All Buddhas, All Beings, One Body’ – Original Audio
Richie Domingue
Audio -Original PZI version of Four Bondless Vows – ‘All Buddhas, All Beings, One Body’
4' 18" April 19, 2020 -
Opening the Last Session in the Blue Dragon’s Cave – Sunday
John Tarrant, Michael Wilding, Tess Beasley
Audio: Tess & John open the final session of sesshin. Remarkable magic of incense in the ether!
25' 48" July 16, 2020
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New to the Library
Audio Excerpt: Kindnesses in the Appearance of Guanyin with Michelle Riddle Sensei
Audio Excerpt: Michelle Riddle Sensei reflects on the kindesses of Guanyin as she shifts the ground of suffering throughout our lives and her quality of welcome. As recorded August 2, 2020.
Audio Excerpt: The Surprise of Guanyin with Allison Atwill Roshi
Audio Excerpt: Allison Atwill Roshi introduces the surprise of Guanyin – anything can happen when the Goddess appears – she has no fixed form. As recorded August 2 2020.
Guanyin In the Pavilion – Introduction Tess Beasley & Sara Bender Roshi
Audio Excerpt – An introduction to the many faces of the Goddess Guanyin with Tess Beasley & Sarah Bender Roshi. As recorded Aug 2, 2020.
Machado Poem: Traveler There is No Road – Eduardo Fuentes & John Tarrant Roshi Read
Audio – Excerpt from John Tarrant’s Green Glade Zen Online Sunday Meditation July 19th, 2020. Eduardo Fuentes first reads a Machado poem: ‘Traveler There is No Road’ in Spanish from his home in Santiago Chile, John Tarrant repeats the same poem in English and finally Eduardo reads it again in the Spanish. As recorded July 19 2020.
Knock on Any Door: Daoist Masters & Zen Koans
“Great understanding is broad and unhurried. Small understanding is cramped and busy.” I don’t know if that’s true, but it kinda sounds good. “No other and no self, no self and no distinctions” – that’s almost it. But I don’t know what makes it this way. I think this is one of the cool things about what Daoism brought to Zen. Nobody knows what makes things this way. And we don’t pretend that.Â