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February 3 2023

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Audio February 27, 2023

Winter Sesshin: Trusting in the Dao

John Tarrant

Koans
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), If You Get It the First Time (BS76), Mazu's Purpose of Your Life, Solitary Boat, The Moon Sets at Midnight (BS76), The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6), Yunmen Says It Upside Down (BCR15), Yunmen's Give Me the Reaching
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2023 Winter Sesshin, Bodhidharma, Daodejing, Daoism, February 3 2023, Laozi, Mazu, moon, Mother Deep, Valley Spirit, vast emptiness, Yunmen
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Explanations of Zen, or of anything, are not it. Zen does not try to make you pure—it tries to make you whole. We can trust in the Dao, but by explaining it, we move away from it. Something deeper is going on, carrying us.

44' 17"
Audio February 17, 2023

The Path of Practice – Remembering a Teacher

Jon Joseph

Koans
Solitary Boat
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2023 Winter Sesshin, February 3 2023
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Jon Joseph recalls the powerful influence of his high school Zen teacher Señor King, and others along the way, as his unfolding path of practice is carried by the great current.

42' 10"