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I Vow to Set Endless Heartache to Rest

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KOAN:

I vow to set endless heartache to rest.

—PZI Vows as Koans

From the Four Boundless Vows (PZI version):

I vow to wake all the beings of the world,
I vow to set endless heartache to rest,
I vow to walk through every wisdom gate,
I vow to live the Great Buddha Way.

Text February 11, 2021

A True Person of No Rank, No Color, No Gender: Seeing Through All Distinctions

John Tarrant

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Dongshan's Cold Kills You Heat Kills You (BCR43), Huineng's No North & South (GG23), I Vow to Set Endless Heartache to Rest, Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38), The Four Boundless Vows
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always I carry light and silence, Bodhisattva Path, doing the impossible, poet Anna Swir, poet Du Fu, poet Li Bai, poet Yousef Koumenyaka, racist behaviors, societal unrest, trust in your light, tumultuous times, Walking While Black, writer Garnette Cadogan
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I was thinking about history and beauty and what an old old thing human suffering is, and how intrinsic it is. And we keep making things better and then they keep getting worse, and we’re making them better and they get worse. I guess I just wanted to say that it’s really good to have a practice at any time. Meditate—it will help. You will come from a position of peace rather than just fighting yourself. Being yourself, the true person, no rank. Transcript of PZI Zen Online Sunday Dharma Talk with John Tarrant Roshi, recorded June 7, 2020.

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Text February 5, 2021

The Everlasting Body Runs Deepest Indigo: Meditation for Troubled Times

John Tarrant

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Dalong's Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82), I Vow to Set Endless Heartache to Rest, Sutra of Complete Enlightenment (BS45), The Land of Demons (EV42), The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
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brocade, compassion, Covid, Dalong (Ta Lung), delusive thinking, Four Boundless Vows, friendship, Green Glade of Meditation, intimacy, June 14 2020, modesty, poet Czesław Miłosz, poet Du Fu, poet Li Bai, poet Rilke, rakshasas, tumultuous times, writer Primo Levi
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It’s a very strong thing to be human, you can be subjected to all sorts of great forces. And sometimes you can win through, and sometimes you die. But we’re all of us doing that, all the time. So I was thinking about how good it is to love each other, to meet each other, and to make peace in our hearts. Sunday talk with John Tarrant, recorded June 14 2020.

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