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Dharma Theme: Fire – The Extremes of Climate Change

PZI Teachers

Koans

Dasui's Fire at the End of the Kalpa (BCR 29), Dongshan's Five Ranks (4th), Fire at the End of the Universe (BCR29), The Fire Across the River (MK2), What Is This? (BCR51)

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Dharma Theme, Text

Our era is undoubtedly difficult, and even crazy. We are in an underworld time. We know that we’re cutting down ancient trees, burning fossil fuels, melting the sustaining ice, finding leaders who pretend that we have no part in the changes that overwhelm us. We are suffering from forces greater than us and also from ourselves; we too are forces beyond our control.

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Text February 17, 2021

Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds

John Tarrant

Koans

Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds (MK23b), Not Picking & Choosing (BCR2), The Great Way Is Not Difficult (BCR2)

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Text, Transcript

Everybody, every time, has its own difficulty and crisis. This is ours. We can trust our own lives that brought us here, and perhaps we have something to do here. And we don’t know what that is but we’ll find it as we keep walking. The thing about the meditation path is, I don’t have to think a lot about what’s mine to do. You just give yourself to the meditation, and it’s produced for you. It’s given to you. The path opens by itself, you know. Transcript of PZI Zen Online Sunday Talk with John Tarrant, recorded March 29 2020.

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