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It is the Chan way to understand that the fullness of life resides in us, and the experience of life, whatever it is, is all for you. Our task is to have the life we have.
Home and Not Home
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Leaving Home, Seeking Home
Where did you come from?
What did you come for?
It is the Chan way to understand that the fullness of life resides in us, and the experience of life, whatever it is, is all for you. Our task is to have the life we have.
The true traveler has no fixed destination and no set time of arrival. —Laozi
I Leave Home and I Don’t
My two lives, my many lives, are simultaneous. I leave home and I don’t.
I die and I don’t. I’m asleep and dreaming, and also awake and dreaming. The car crash, the tyranny, the epidemic, the fire; it killed me, it missed me, I was careful, I was careless but lucky. It was my fate.
—John Tarrant
TEXT: Everyone Is Living Two Lives – John Tarrant, Uncertainty Club Magazine, Fall 2020
Homeless
MINI-COLLECTION: GREAT SILENCE SERIES in January 2023
VIDEO: Shelter for the Homeless Person – Michelle Riddle
VIDEO: When Nowhere Is Home – Tess Beasley
AUDIO: Always Home – Tess Beasley
VIDEO: Homecoming Kama’aina, Child of the Land – Jesse Cardin
Taking the form of Guanyin, (the bodhisattva of great compassion) find shelter for the homeless one.
—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 14
VIDEO: Not Knowing Is Most Intimate – John Tarrant, Fall Sesshin 2015
ARTWORK: Guanyin – painting by Allison Atwill, 2010
VIDEO: Guanyin – Allison Atwill, Sesshin 2010
A Burning House
TEXT: House of Fire – Chris Gaffney, Uncertainty Club Magazine, Summer 2019
TEXT: Surprises on the Way – John Tarrant, Shambhala Sun Magazine, 2008
AUDIO CLIP: Saving Houses: Fiery Guanyin – Allison Atwill, Guanyin Sunday, Summer 2020
A Grass Hut
TEXT: Song of the Grass Hut – Shitou Xiqian, Sutra reading for PZI ceremony
A True Place
VIDEO: The Self Longs for the Inclusion It Already Has – Allison Atwill, Summer Sesshin 2022
VIDEO: Homecoming Zen – Allison Atwill, Sesshin 2015
The Journey Itself Is Home
AUDIO: The Journey Itself Is Home – John Tarrant, Sunday Zen, Winter 2022
VIDEO: The Journey Itself Is Home – Allison Atwill, Sesshin 2019
Each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
—poet Basho
Related Materials & Koans
DHARMA THEME: Great Ancestor Linji –Taking the Role of Host & Other Koans