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Mazu's Your Own Heart Mind

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Mountains, rivers, the great earth, the sun, the moon, and the stars are none other than your own heart and mind.

—Mazu

Text October 30, 2023

You Can’t Cage a Koan – Make It a Raft!

John Tarrant, PZI Teachers

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Blue Dragon's Cave (BCR3), Ma's Sun Face Moon Face Buddha (BCR3), Mazu's Make Yourself a Raft, Mazu's Purpose of Your Life, Mazu's Salt and Sauce (EV61), Mazu's Your Own Heart Mind, Non-Attained Buddha (GG9), This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha
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2020 Summer Sesshin, awakening, Blue Dragon’s Cave, dragon, June 26 2020, koan practice, Master Ma, Mazu, poet Gbenga Adesina, turning into the difficulty, Yuanwu
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In the Blue Dragon’s cave, everything is there. If you think you haven’t seen a dragon, you may be wrong. In fact, who says you’re not a dragon? And if you think you don’t know about koans, you may be wrong, too. Who says you’re not a koan? Transcript of a dharma talk in Summer Sesshin 2020.

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Text June 23, 2023

We Are Interwoven

John Tarrant

Koans
Enter There, How Do I Become Free?, Just This Is It, Mazu's Samadhi of Buddha Nature, Mazu's Your Own Heart Mind, Shitou's Rightful Heir, Southern Barbarians, Taking Part in the Gathering, Zhaozhou's Dharmakaya
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2022 Summer Sesshin, awakening, becoming a buddha, Daoism, Daowu, dreams, gathering, interwoven, June 13 2022, just this, lineage, Mazu, not doing, not knowing, Sandokai, Shitou, transmission, Yaoshan
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It’s a noble thing to gather together for the Dharma. It has hidden effects, that if we thought about it from afar, we’d think, Ah, I don’t know. But when we’re together, we can feel, Oh, yeah, it’s happening. I can feel it in my heart and my soul and my fingers.

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