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If you’ve got demons, you’re alive! But you don’t have to get on board with them. Demons come out of your own heart, just like enlightenment.
Dealing with Demons
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If you’ve got demons, you’re alive! But you don’t have to get on board with them. Demons come out of your own heart, just like enlightenment.
3-MIN VIDEO STORY: Hakuin’s Demons – John Tarrant,
Sesshin 2016
Hell in an SUV
Assailed by demons? This is the taste of life! —John Tarrant
KOAN: Hell in an SUV – PZI Miscellaneous Koans Case 26
VIDEO: I See You, Mara! – David Weinstein, Sesshin 2022
AUDIO: More Spells for Passing Through Danger & Demons – John Tarrant, Sunday Zen, Fall 2021
AUDIO: Fortunate Encounters with Demons, Delusions, & Unexpected Guests – Tess Beasley,
Sunday Zen, Spring 2020
Land of Demons
KOAN: The Land of Demons – Entangling Vines Case 42
AUDIO: Drifting Toward the Land of the Rakshasas – John Tarrant,
Sunday Zen, Fall 2021
AUDIO: Unfavorable Winds Blew the Ship Off Course! – John Tarrant, Sunday Zen, Spring 2021
Guishan asked, “In the forty million volumes of the Nirvana Sutra,
how many words were spoken by demons, and how many by buddhas?”
Yangshan responds, “They were all spoken by demons!”
AUDIO: Dharani for Warding off Demons – Jordan McConnell on guitar and voice
TEXT: Sho Sai Myo Kichijo Dharani
Land of Goblins
VIDEO: Goblins – John Tarrant, Summer Sesshin 2011
TEXT: Goblins Q&A – John Tarrant, Summer Sesshin 2011
It’s not always clear what’s a demon and what isn’t.
Demons bring gifts sometimes.—John Tarrant
Reign of the Asuras
MINI-COLLECTION from PZI’s UNCERTAINTY CLUB MAGAZINE,
SUMMER 2018
TEXT: The Myth We’re In, Part One: Breaking the Spell – Joan Sutherland
TEXT: The Myth We’re In, Part Two: Initiation – Joan Sutherland
TEXT: The Myth We’re In, Part Three: Exile, Home – Joan Sutherland
TEXT: On Joan Sutherland’s “The Myth We’re In” – John Tarrant
A Good Crisis
TEXT: It Would Be a Pity to Waste a Good Crisis – John Tarrant, Lion’s Roar Magazine, Spring 2018
Awakening might happen at any time, perhaps especially when we are convinced that something else is going on. —John Tarrant
KOAN: Zhaozhou’s Welcome
VIDEO CLIP: The Release in Turning Toward What Is Most Difficult – Tess Beasley,
Sunday Zen, Spring 2022
TEXT: Meditation for Troubled Times – John Tarrant, Sunday Zen, Summer 2020
AUDIO: Waking Up in Difficult Times – John Tarrant, Winter Sesshin 2017
TEXT: How to Welcome the End of the World – John Tarrant, Lion’s Roar Magazine, Fall 2016
Welcome just appears, which makes it seem like a gift or a guest.
But if you look inside, you’ll find it’s always been there.—John Tarrant
Related Materials & Koans
KOAN: Stop the War – PZI Miscellaneous Koans Case 25
KOAN: The Fire Across the River – PZI Miscellaneous Koans Case 2
TEXT: How to Defeat the Enemy – John Tarrant, Lion’s Roar Magazine, Summer 2009