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Dharma Theme May 12, 2023

Dharma Theme: Animal Teachers

PZI Teachers

Koans
Zhaozhou's No (GG1)(BS18), Zhaozhou’s Dog (GG1)(BS18)
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animals, birds, Blue Dragon’s Cave, buffalo, butterfly, dogs, dolphin, donkey, elephant, fox, goose, lion, monkey, ox, Oxherding Pictures, rhinoceros, tiger, Tyger, Zhuangzi
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Animals give us the gifts of their living presence, and we feel the profound effect they have on our lives. Animals surprise and enlarge us. We become the animal we are seeing, and that is a primary Zen move. The way we become the world that we are part of, is a profound part of Zen.

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Text August 14, 2020

Spirit of Love, Joy & Play in Koans

John Tarrant

Koans
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Rhinoceros Fan BCR91)(BS25), Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
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2014 Summer Sesshin, Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma, embodying koans, play, rhinoceros, sickness and medicine, what am I?, Yunmen
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Value a sort of play and see if you can break the koan—the koan will be amused. And see it and let it into your heart, and see what comes, or follow it around, or have it follow you. And finally you’ll realize, “Oh, I’m here. I’m free.”

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