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For Your Benefit (MK48)

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KOAN:

Two friends were washing their bowls in a creek, and they saw two crows fighting over a frog. One friend asked, “Why does it always have to be like that?”

The other friend replied, “It’s only for your benefit, honored one.”

—PZI Miscellanous Koans, Case 48 (Dongshan)

Audio July 7, 2023

Summer Sesshin: Stepping Into the Transformation of Sesshin

John Tarrant

Koans
Baizhang's Fox (GG2) (BS8), Don't Believe It, For Your Benefit (MK48), Silver Mountain and Iron Cliff (BCR 57)
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2023 Summer Sesshin, animal teachers, fox life, Huangbo, intractability, June 12 2023, Nakagawa, opening night
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Audio

John Tarrant opens the Great Summer Sesshin – Creatures of the Summer Dawn. If you just don’t try to work things out, the universe will take over. Whatever appears, don’t believe it! Enjoy yourself. 

26' 3"