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Dharma Theme July 26, 2023

Dharma Theme: Landscape as Teacher

PZI Teachers

Koans
A Thousand Mountains (MK13), Blue Dragon's Cave (BCR3), Changsha Wandering in the Mountains (BCR36), Dancing Mountains (MK5), How Do You Cross a Stream?, Ten Thousand Feet Down (MK27), The Coin Lost in the River (MK64), The Fire Across the River (MK2), The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6), The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
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being carried, brocade, cave, climate change, field, forest, home, journey, lake, landscape, mountain, river, stream, valley, valley spirit, wandering
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Dharma Theme

When we wake up and see our true place in the universe, it’s as if we have stepped out of a landscape and then we’re willing to step back into it. We appear and go back into the brocade. Then, we have our true place in the universe.

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Dharma Theme April 12, 2023

Dharma Theme: Dragon Teachers & Magical Creatures

PZI Teachers

Koans
Blue Dragon's Cave (BCR3), Dogen’s Storehouse of Treasures (MK66), Dragon Murmurings (BCR2), Dragon Singing in a Withered Tree, Loch Ness Monster (MK11)
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blue dragon, cave, creatures, Dharma Theme, dragon, journey, joy, Loch Ness Monster, Summer sesshin 2020, treasures, unicorn
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Dharma Theme, Text

Anything might be in the Blue Dragon’s cave: awakening, memories, sorrows, dance moves—all the possibilities of your life might be there. You just fall into meditation in the Blue Dragon’s cave. Perhaps your whole life is blessed—every struggle and confusion itself.

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