John Tarrant
Roshi and Director – Founder Pacific Zen Institute
Paths in the Underworld – Meditation, Music, Koans & Stories for Our Time 
Every Day Is a Good Day 
Ancestors and Fires 
Australia Is Burning 
What Is This? 
Not Knowing Is Most Intimate – Delight in the Chaos of Life 
Leaning Into the Ancestors 
Linji’s Enlightenment & the Awakenings of Great Chan Teachers 
All Those Hands and Eyes 
The First Dog & NO 
The Journey, the Reaching & Luopu’s Last Words 
Walking the Mysterious Path Together – Koans, Transformation & PZI 
The Plainness of the Heart 
The Coyote & Roadrunner Experience 
The World Is Here For You 
Tree Frogs 
What Do You Want? 
Whatever Confronts You, Don’t Believe It 
Listening to Your Own Heart 
Knock on Any Door – Daoist Masters and Zen Koans 
Everything is Evening Out 
What’s the Use of Meditation? 
Zhuangzi Dreamed He was A Butterfly 
The Bird Path 
My God, It’s for Me! Why Wasn’t I Informed? 
Be the Host 
What’s a Teaching That Lasts a Whole Lifetime? 
The Raven’s Mind 
Buddha’s Dream Featured: Entangling Vines Case 99 - Jiashan's State of Mind
A student asked Jiashan, “What is Jiashan’s state of mind?”
Jiashan answered, “Monkeys, clasping their young to their breasts, return beyond the green peaks: a bird with a flower in its beak alights before the blue cliff.”
—Entangling Vines, Case 99
Predicament Koans