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What Is Meditation?

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Student: What is meditation?
Zhaozhou: It’s not meditation.
Student: It’s not? Why not?
Zhaozhou: It’s alive, it’s alive.

Text March 27, 2023

Here

John Tarrant

Koans
Entangle, What Is Meditation?, Who Is Hearing?, Who Is Meditating
Tags
emptiness, hearing, Inquiry koans, koans, listening, meditation, space, true nature
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Text, Transcript

Like trees and giraffes, delusions appear to be the opposite of emptiness. But when you really settle into being lost and uncertain, that is an open gate. It comes to be called “here.”

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