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Going to Wild Places (MK73)

KOAN:

People go to wild places to search for their true nature. When you do this, where is your true nature?

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 73a (1st of Doushuai’s 3 Barriers)

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Dharma Theme March 22, 2023

Dharma Theme: In the Wild – Mountain Koans & Poems

PZI Teachers

Eventually you come to a place where you can’t go on and you can’t go back. You have arrived at the base of cliffs; you can’t scale them, you can’t get around them, and there’s no handy tunnel through them. It’s a daunting place—that’s the point of it. And when you arrive here your life and your journey can become your own.

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