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What Is It Like to Have a Self?

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KOAN:

What is it like to have a self?

—PZI Inquiry Koan

Audio September 30, 2021

Animal Heart Mind

John Tarrant

Koans
Dolphins (MK10), The Great Koan NO (GG1) (BS18), What Is It Like to Have a Self?
Tags
animals, haiku, poet Christopher Smart, poet Walt Whitman, poetry, September 26 2021, the visible and invisible companionship of animals
Category
Audio

With all the crises of our time lined up, like a caravan demanding our attention, what if the moments of beauty, friendship and peace are the real, important moments? Animal koans are really about you, and the question, What is it like to have a self? Poem and haiku readings from John, Issa, William Merwynn, Walt Whitman, Christopher Smart, & PZI friends Jeanne Foster and Adam Walsh. Music from Jordan McConnell.

63' 43"