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This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha

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KOAN:

What is Buddha?
This very heart-mind.

—Gateless Gate, Case 30 (Mazu)

Audio September 2, 2021

In the Family of Things

John Tarrant

Koans
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), Hanshan's Tree (MK39), Loch Ness Monster (MK11), Taking Part in the Gathering, This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha, Zhuangzi Dreamed He Was a Butterfly
Tags
August 22 2021, End of Summer Dreams, Family of all living creatures, Mazu
Category
Audio

The small self is always trying to hold off the world. But we are really a kind of flow. We feel the warm empathy at the bottom of all things. All things have Buddha nature. Not opposing reality is the beginning of all awakenings.

71' 59"
Audio February 5, 2021

Musical Interlude – This Very Heart Mind

Michael Wilding

Koans
Snow in a Silver Bowl, This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha
Tags
friendship, Handing Things on in the Dark, Tortoise Mountain
Category
Audio, Excerpt, Music

Michael Wilding offers his original musical response in the Meditation and Talk on January 31, 2021. Audio excerpt from the Sunday session, PZI Zen Online. 4 minutes.

4' 20"
Audio January 28, 2021

Friendship: A Thing of Special Wonder

John Tarrant

Koans
A Matter of Special Worth, This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha
Tags
Bodhidharma, friendship, heart mind, meditation practice
Category
Audio

On encouraging friendship with the world—koans, trees, people. How we interact with friends, from the heart. We listen to each other. We don’t have to make them anything other than what they are. Poems, stories, comments. Complete session as recorded Jan 24, 2021, PZI Zen Online.

54' 16"
Audio July 29, 2020

This Very Mind Is It

Jon Joseph

Koans
This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha, Who Am I?
Tags
Mazu, Poet - Machado
Category
Audio

Audio PZI Zen Online: Whatever mind you have right now in the middle of covid and civil unrest is it! Is Buddha. A great gift. We soak into koan practice and thoughts are part of the mix. They come and go and small mind perceives the vast mind. Who are we and what is this? As recorded July 13 2020.

80' 20"