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Laozi's True Traveler

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The true traveler has no fixed destination and is not intent on arrival.

—Laozi (Daodejing)

Text October 12, 2021

Unexpected Gifts: 10,000 Feet Down, The Stone

John Tarrant

Koans
For Your Benefit (MK48), Laozi's True Traveler, Poverty (MK71), Step by Step in the Dark (MK72), Suddenly It's Midnight, Where Do Songs Come From? (MK41)
Tags
April 5 2020, author Dante, being lost, Daodejing, descent, Dongshan, dreams, Green Glade of Meditation, Inferno, kindness, Linji, not knowing, PZI Zen Online, sunday talk, traveler, unexpected gifts, Yunmen
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John Tarrant talks about living in an underworld time, in a descent as a culture and as a world, and as a planet. Accepting the descent, and accepting the quality of being lost when it appears, is profoundly important. And there’s a great, strange, and interesting mystery in that.

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Article September 17, 2021

Escape Arts & Sam the Cyborg

John Tarrant

Koans
Laozi's True Traveler
Tags
2009, articles, control, koan practice, Lion's Roar, meetings, not holding back
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Article, Text

Escape arts disassemble the walls or, as in dreams, allow us to step right through them. We can also think of escape arts as practices that appear in moments of natural clarity. They are often similar to the moves you make if you are interested in Zen and koans, but the world teaches escape arts to us; they just appear in a situation without any conscious feeling that you are entering spiritual territory.

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