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Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38)

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KOAN:

There is a true person with no rank, who is always coming and going through the portals of your face.

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 38b (Record of Linji) & Book of Serenity, Case 38

Audio June 7, 2020

A True Person of No Color, No Gender, No Rank – Seeing Through All Distinctions

John Tarrant

Koans
Abiding Nowhere the Heart-Mind Comes Forth (MK65b), Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38)
Tags
covid, I vow to set endless heartache to rest, poet Anna Swir, poet Du Fu, poet Li Bai, racist behaviors, societal unrest, Walking While Black, writer Garnette Cadogan
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Audio

PZI Zen Online: Zen has no insiders, no outsiders. The true person has no rank, no color, no designations. John reads from Garrett Cadogan’s essay, “Walking While Black.” Koans and vows as expressions of reality. The bodhisattva path. The space and light of the universe is already in everything and everyone, beyond categories. As recorded June 7th, 2020.

93' 38"