Heart Sutra
SUTRA:
“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form,” says the Heart Sutra.
The Heart Sutra Koan
Evening dharma talk by John Tarrant in Summer Sesshin. As recorded June 14, 2018.
Audio Excerpt: Guanyin Air & Breath Arising with Sarah Bender
PZI Zen Online: Audio excerpt from Guanyin in the Pavilion Under the August Moon. Sarah Bender Roshi contemplates the call and response of compassionate exchanges. Air as breath of life. Anchored in the Heart Sutra. Dream of a room, barely there, full of gifts for all times and places. As recorded August 23 2020.
The Heart Sutra & Koans
The Heart Sutra in the context of its relationship to koans and what koans are. I want to pursue that line a little bit. And the first thing to say about – probably the first attitude people have to koans is that they are a sort of tool, a gadget of some kind, and you use them and you concentrate on them, and you use them – a can opener for the mind
Heart Sutra Variations
The Heart Sutra, like any koan, contains the universe, and so you have to go in somewhere. I want to go in through the “Mantra of Great Magic.” Even the word “mantra” is, in a certain way, a reference to magic, a sort of portable access to reality that you can carry around with you. And the word “magic” is also used for the word “mantra,” so where we use “mantra” to produce magic, there’s a transformative quality about the mantra so that, when you repeat it, when you keep company with it, you end up in its world.
Heart Sutra
John Tarrant gives a talk on Thursday evening of the 2018 Summer Sesshin. June 14, 2018.
Koans and the Practice of Little Things
Rachel Boughton and David Weinstein give a talk on Saturday morning of the Summer 2018 Sesshin. June 16, 2018.
Story Time
Jon Joseph gives a talk on Thursday morning of the 2018 Summer Sesshin. June 14, 2018.
Heart Sutra
Rachel Boughton gives a talk on Tuesday morning of the Summer 2018 Sesshin. June 12, 2018.