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Audio January 28, 2021

Friendship: A Thing of Special Wonder

John Tarrant

Koans
A Matter of Special Worth, This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha
Tags
Bodhidharma, friendship, heart mind, meditation practice
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On encouraging friendship with the world—koans, trees, people. How we interact with friends, from the heart. We listen to each other. We don’t have to make them anything other than what they are. Poems, stories, comments. Complete session as recorded Jan 24, 2021, PZI Zen Online.

54' 16"
Audio September 9, 2020

Hanging Lanterns: Everyone Has Their Own Light

John Tarrant

Koans
What Is Your Light? (BCR86), Yunmen Has a Light (BCR86)
Tags
2020, Haiku, Hanging Lanterns at the Gates of the Autumn Temple, lamps, light, meditation practice, poet Basho, poet Czesław Miłosz, PZI Zen Online, radiance, Sept 6 2020, September, sunday talk, Yunmen
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As old agreements fall apart, practice is a kindness. What is the image of our time? A lamp that lights another, without losing any radiance. It carries the changes, in the warmth of fire. What is meditation? Any moment of sanity! Michael Wilding on flute, Amaryllis Fletcher on violin, and Jordan McConnell on guitar for the 4 Vows. As recorded on Sunday, September 6, 2020.

85' 43"
Audio July 10, 2020

Audio Excerpt: The Elephant in the Room – Dream of the Totality of Being

John Tarrant

Tags
dreams, Into the Blue Dragon's Cave, June 27 2020, meditation practice, Summer sesshin 2020
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PZI Zen Online: Audio excerpt. John Tarrant Roshi recounts a Sesshin dream—insight on meditation practice. As recorded June 27 2020.

4' 19"