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Laozi's True Traveler

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KOAN:

The true traveler has no fixed destination and is not intent on arrival.

—Laozi (Daodejing)

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Dharma Theme June 9, 2023

Dharma Theme: Home and Not Home

PZI Teachers

Koans
Laozi's True Traveler, Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Linji's True Place (MK38d), Shelter (MK14), Shitou's Grass Hut, The Journey Itself Is Home, Where Are You Coming From?
Tags
Bodhisattva of Compassion, burning house, Dharma Theme, finding home, grass hut, Guanyin, home, homeless, journey, Journey Itself is Home, Laozi, leaving home, Linji, shelter, Shitou
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Dharma Theme, Text

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.

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Audio March 7, 2022

The Journey Itself Is Home

John Tarrant

Koans
Laozi's True Traveler, The Journey Itself Is Home
Tags
Eternity, February 20 2022, friendship, Journey Itself is Home, Laozi, poet Basho, poet Li Bai, PZI Zen Online, sunday talk, war
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Audio

We think about getting to that perfect destination, but it is the journey itself that is it. A lightness in our path comes of each step we take into eternity. Music from Michael Wilding, Amaryllis Fletcher & Jordan McConnell. February 20, 2022.

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Text October 12, 2021

Unexpected Gifts: 10,000 Feet Down, The Stone

John Tarrant

Koans
For Your Benefit (MK48), Laozi's True Traveler, Poverty (MK71), Step by Step in the Dark (MK72), Suddenly It's Midnight, Where Do Songs Come From? (MK41)
Tags
April 5 2020, author Dante, being lost, Daodejing, descent, Dongshan, dreams, Green Glade of Meditation, Inferno, kindness, Linji, not knowing, PZI Zen Online, sunday talk, traveler, unexpected gifts, Yunmen
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Text, Transcript

John Tarrant talks about living in an underworld time, in a descent as a culture and as a world, and as a planet. Accepting the descent, and accepting the quality of being lost when it appears, is profoundly important. And there’s a great, strange, and interesting mystery in that.

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Article September 17, 2021

Escape Arts & Sam the Cyborg

John Tarrant

Koans
Laozi's True Traveler
Tags
2009, articles, control, koan practice, Lion's Roar, meetings, not holding back
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Article, Text

Escape arts disassemble the walls or, as in dreams, allow us to step right through them. We can also think of escape arts as practices that appear in moments of natural clarity. They are often similar to the moves you make if you are interested in Zen and koans, but the world teaches escape arts to us; they just appear in a situation without any conscious feeling that you are entering spiritual territory.

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