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Text June 28, 2023

Falling Into the Well of Sesshin

John Tarrant

Koans
Baling's Falling into a Well (MK74b), Jiashan Meets the Boat Monk, Jiashan's State of Mind (EV99), Knock on Any Door (BCR), Teaching That Lasts a Lifetime (BCR14)
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2022 Fall Sesshin, awakening, Boat Monk, body of reality, Daowu, Dharmakaya, falling, Jiashan, leaving, October 5 2022, teacher and student, traveler, Yaoshan, Yunmen
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The nice thing about falling is it’s already happened, you know? It started already; there’s not much you can do about it. So you’re kind of free, in a way. It’s sort of like being condemned: Knowing you’ll die tomorrow—well, you can do anything you want tonight.

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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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Dharma Theme June 9, 2023

Dharma Theme: Where Do We Go When We Die?

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Doushuai’s Third Barrier (MK73c), Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73) (GG47), Huineng's Original Face (GG23), Luopu About To Die (BS41), Mazu's Purpose of Your Life, The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6), Where Do You Go When You Die?, Your Original Face before Your Parents Were Born (GG23)
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ancestors, bardos, buddha nature, Daowu, death, Dharma Theme, Doushuai, dying, great matter, great questions, Huineng, last words, Linji, Luopu, Mazu, original face, poet Issa
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Questions about death and the after-death are a part of the traditional Chan koan curriculum. Dignified by their antiquity, they are the primordial instance of that which cannot be negotiated with.

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