The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo

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There was a student who asked a teacher, the teacher was Dalung [lung means dragon, dragon teacher] and the student said,
“This physical body perishes, decays. What is the imperishable, what is the hard and fast body of reality? What is the body that doesn’t decay? This physical body decays, what is the everlasting body of the real?”
And the teacher said, “Mountain flowers bloom like brocade. The valley streams run deepest indigo.” 

Audio June 15, 2020

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

John Tarrant

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Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation, Sutra of Complete Enlightenment (BS45), Ta Lung’s Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82), 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"