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What Is It Like To Be You?

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KOAN:

What is it like to be you?

—PZI Inquiry Koan

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Dharma Theme May 4, 2023

Dharma Theme: What Is This, Anyway?

PZI Teachers

Koans
Dongshan's Just This Is It, What Is It Like To Be You?, What Is This? (BCR51), Who Am I?, Xuefeng's What's This? (BCR51)
Tags
being curious, Dharma Theme, great questions, Inquiry Koans, just this, not knowing, what is it?, what is this?
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Dharma Theme, Text

What is this?  is an ancient question—it holds our whole lives. That wondering is the essence of what it is to be human.

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Text November 26, 2022

Yuanwu & the Great Masters of the Blue Cliff

John Tarrant

Koans
Little Jade (MK47), Mazu's Purpose of Your Life, Talking about the Deepest Matters, The Great Way Is Not Difficult (BCR2), What Is Buddha?, What Is It Like To Be You?
Tags
2021 Fall Sesshin, Blue Cliff Record, Fayan, In the Palace at the Blue Cliff, Inquiry Koans, poet Basho, poet George Bilgere, poet Naomi Shihab Nye, poet Tomas Transtromer, Prajnatara, PZI Online Temple, Wuzu, Yuanwu
Category
Text, Transcript

The subject is the Dharma, the deepest matters, our own true face. One way to look at these matters is through the Blue Cliff Record, a compilation of occasions for revealing who you are.

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