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Mazu's Purpose of Your Life

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KOAN:

The whole purpose of your life rests in the current matter.

—Mazu Daoyi (excerpt from a longer teaching)

Video April 1, 2023

Winter Sesshin – Trusting in the Dao

John Tarrant

Koans
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), If You Get It the First Time (BS76), Mazu's Purpose of Your Life, Solitary Boat, The Moon Sets at Midnight (BS76), The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6), Yunmen Says It Upside Down (BCR15), Yunmen's Give Me the Reaching
Tags
2023 Winter Sesshin, Bodhidharma, Daodejing, Daoism, February 3 2023, Laozi, Mazu, moon, Mother Deep, solitary boat, Valley Spirit, vast emptiness, Yunmen
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Explanations of Zen, or of anything, are not it. Zen does not try to make you pure—it tries to make you whole. We can trust in the Dao, but by explaining it, we move away from it. Something deeper is going on, carrying us.

22' 33"