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Jade Elephant

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KOAN:

Blossoms on withered tree—a spring outside of time;
riding backwards on a jade elephant, chasing a dragon deer with wings.

—Dongshan (from a poem)

Text October 8, 2020

5 Running Things Backwards – The Zenosaurus Course In Koans

John Tarrant

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Jade Elephant, Turning Around (MK68)
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If you turn things around you are like the Buddha., Zenosaurus 05, zenosaurus curriculum
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Zenosaurus Curriculum 5: What’s it like when we don’t enter the worlds that come with the thoughts? Who owns my thoughts? They don’t have to be mine, they could be anyone’s.

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