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Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d)

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Wherever you are, just take the role of host, and that place will be a true place.

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 38d (Record of Linji)

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Dharma Theme June 9, 2023

Dharma Theme: Home and Not Home

PZI Teachers

Koans
Laozi's True Traveler, Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Linji's True Place (MK38d), Shelter (MK14), Shitou's Grass Hut, The Journey Itself Is Home, Where Are You Coming From?
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Bodhisattva of Compassion, burning house, Dharma Theme, finding home, grass hut, Guanyin, home, homeless, journey, Journey Itself is Home, Laozi, leaving home, Linji, shelter, Shitou
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Dharma Theme, Text

It is the Chan way to understand that the fullness of life resides in us, and the experience of life, whatever it is, is all for you. Our task is to have the life we have.

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Dharma Theme May 1, 2023

Dharma Theme: Great Ancestor Linji

PZI Teachers

Koans
Linji's Blockhead, Linji's Nothing I Dislike (MK38a), Linji's Nothing To Do, Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c), Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38), Linji's True Place (MK38d)
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Ancestors, be the host, blockhead, Dharma Theme, enlightenment, Linji, no rank, solitary brightness, true person, your light
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Dharma Theme, Text

Meet Great Ancestor Linji: “A nine-colored Phoenix, a thousand-mile horse.” That’s how Linji was described in early Chan times.

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Text August 25, 2020

Hosting the Life You Have

John Tarrant

Koans
Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Sixteen Bodhisattvas Take a Bath (BCR78), Times of Great Difficulty
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2016 Summer retreat, Basho, Linji, Poet - Tony Hoagland, poet Anna Swir, strawberry parable, Zhaozhou
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Rilke said, “Life is always right.” Whatever I think about that saying, this is the life I have, and I can’t have another life. And really, fundamentally I don’t want another one, because this one is so rich and compelling, no matter what’s going down right now.

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Text September 17, 2019

Hosting the Life You Have – Koans for Hard Times

John Tarrant

Koans
Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Sixteen Bodhisattvas Take a Bath (BCR78)
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koans for hard times
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..one of the things we can be skeptical about is that division. This is meditation, this is not meditation, and the question is always, how do you know it’s not meditation? How do you know what’s happening now isn’t it?

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