Featured Koan: The Four Boundless Vows

I vow to wake all the beings of the world,
I vow to set endless heartache to rest,
I vow to walk though every wisdom gate,
I vow to live the great Buddha Way.

—PZI Refuge Vows

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Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation

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Audio June 15, 2020

The Everlasting Body Runs Deep as Indigo – Meditation for Troubled Times

John Tarrant

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Dalung’s Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82), Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation, Sutra of Complete Enlightenment (BS45), The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo

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Book of Serenity, covid, Dalung, delusive thinking, demonstrations, friendship, June 14 2020, Land of Demons, off course, poet Czesław Miłosz, poet Du Fu, poet Li Bai, poet Rilke, rakshasas, tumultuous times, writer Primo Levi

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PZI Zen Online: We are in the midst of great civil unrest around racism and the institutions that support it. Li Bai, Du Fu, Dalung & Primo Levi speak about what remains, what lives, what holds us in the universe—even as we feel most perishable, sad, defeated. The light is still there in all things even without a foundation to stand on. As recorded June 14 2020.

96' 32"