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Video Excerpt Library
There are 11 pieces here.
Summer Sesshin: Buffalo Talk, Part 1: Why Won’t My Tail Go Through the Window?
I’m a buffalo. Why won’t my beautiful tail pass through the window? Part One of John Tarrant’s dharma talk recorded in 2023 Summer Sesshin on June 16th.
Sickness & Medicine: Healing Is Like Kissing – A Poem
It’s all medicine, really. Everything has Buddha nature, beauty and value. Healing is the big point of view. John Tarrant reads his poem, Healing Is Like Kissing, written for the dedication of an integrative medicine center. From Sunday Zen on March 5, 2023.
Something Is Always Blooming
Something is always vast and still, something is always blooming—the joys and pains of life, of forgetting and remembering. Gifts are outside of usual commerce and exchange, and life is a gift. Just accept it, like the flowers at the foot of the cliff. 17-minute excerpt from Sunday Zen on February 12, 2023.
Great Silence at the Beginning: Shelter for the Homeless Person
In trying hard to find home, Michelle realizes that everything is happening on a deeper level, in great silence. Everything is always coming through—our role is to notice without manipulating the situation. 17-minute excerpt from January Sunday Zen, Part 4.
Great Silence at the Beginning: When Nowhere Is Home
When even your own being can feel like the wrong container, Tess Beasley talks about the other side of finding home, where nowhere is home: the great silence that is before all divisions and differentiation. 15-minute excerpt from January Sunday Zen, Part 4.
Great Silence at the Beginning: Homecoming Kama’aina, Child of the Land
Jesse is coming home to Hawaii. 15-minute excerpt from January Sunday Zen, Part 4.
Great Silence at the Beginning: Life Is Like Kissing
An excerpt from Part 4 of Great Silence at the Beginning on January 29, 2023. Michelle Riddle reads a poem written by John Tarrant for the dedication of a new healing center.
Great Silence at the Beginning: Buddha’s Immovable Seat
No management of the universe is necessary. Effort does not help. Buddha’s story starts with ‘everything’ achieved, and acknowledges the longing and sorrow that can not be assuaged by getting things. Buddha in awakening sits in the immovable seat at the center—all included—even Mara. Talk from January Sunday Zen, Part 3.
Great Silence at the Beginning: Resting in the Silence
No management of the universe is necessary. Effort does not help. Buddha’s story starts with ‘everything’ achieved, and acknowledges the longing and sorrow that can not be assuaged by getting things. Buddha in awakening sits in the immovable seat at the center—all included—even Mara. Talk from January Sunday Zen, Part 3.
Great Silence at the Beginning: The Morning Star & The Immovable Seat
No management of the universe is necessary. Effort does not help. Buddha’s story starts with ‘everything’ achieved, and acknowledges the longing and sorrow that can not be assuaged by getting things. Buddha in awakening sits in the immovable seat at the center—all included—even Mara. Talk from January Sunday Zen, Part 3.
What Is It To Be Here?
Video clip: What is it to be here? Weaving and interweaving go on and on, while each thing stands in its own place. From a talk in Summer Sesshin, June 16, 2022. 3 minutes.