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Linji's True Place (MK38d)

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KOAN:

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?
Tags
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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