Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c)

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KOAN:

There’s a solitary brightness without fixed shape or form. It knows how to listen to the teachings, it knows how to understand the teachings, it knows how to teach. That solitary brightness is you.

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 38c, Linji

Video February 2, 2020

Australia Is Burning

John Tarrant

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Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c), What Is This? (BCR51)

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climate change, Fires, Winter Sesshin 2020

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John Tarrant speaks of fire sirens and the Queensland Magpie singing, and walks us through the ancient forests he knew as a child. How do we live the life we live in the face of this vast change? What is this? As recorded in Winter Session 2020.

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Video May 31, 2019