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This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha

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KOAN:

What is Buddha?
This very heart-mind.

—Gateless Gate, Case 30 (Mazu)

Text October 30, 2023

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

John Tarrant, PZI Teachers

Koans
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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Text, Transcript

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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