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Audio October 27, 2022

Fall Sesshin 2022: Dahui’s Journey, Bodhidharma’s Response, & the Marvelous Duke

John Tarrant

Koans
Dahui's Great Doubt, Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Free and Easy Wandering, Jiashan's State of Mind (EV99), What Is It You Lack (MK38e), Yunmen's East Mountain Walks on the Water (EV49)
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Bodhidharma, Dahui, Duke Zhi, emptiness, Fall Sesshin 2022, making a self, PZI Online Temple, uncertainty, Yuanwu
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Sesshin is an embrace which allows greater freedom to appear, and it is deeply mysterious. We don’t do it for a particular outcome or we would be constraining ourselves. We are free and easy wandering. In the koan, Emperor Wu wants a method and a first principle of the holy teaching. Bodhidharma answers, There isn’t a principle! You can’t confine it. Chan is trusting uncertainty, it is not something to be believed. Vows from Amanda Boughton, closing words from Tess Beasley. Complete session recorded on October 7, 2022.

72' 59"
Audio May 7, 2022

Zen Is Poetry

John Tarrant

Koans
Jiashan's State of Mind (EV99), Mazu's Purpose of Your Life, Peach Trees Make a Path (BS79), Shishuang's Hundred-Foot Pole (GG46)(BS79), Yunmen's Sound of the Bell (GG16)
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Duke Zhi, Jiashan, May 1 2022, Poet - Elizabeth Bishop, poet Basho, poet Czesław Miłosz, poet Derek Wolcott, poet Marianne Moore, Poetry, PZI Zen Online, Sunday Talks, The Light Inside the Dark, The Owl and the Bell, The Soul in Zen, zen
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Koans and poetry tumble over each other. Good poetry has an objective quality and is related to koanville in that way. It does not try to persuade or recruit. Not knowing always supports us—you are always in the jeweled net. Music for meditation and the four vows with Jordan McConnell and Amaryllis Fletcher. Participants create poetry from a few momentary observations. Poems by John Tarrant and others.

71' 18"