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Where Do Songs Come From? (MK41)

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KOAN:

Where do songs come from?

—Question from PZI Miscellaneous Koan Case 41: Maralung, An Australian Koan

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, being lost, Dante's Inferno, Daodejing, descent, Dongshan, dreams, Green Glade of Meditation, kindness, Linji, not knowing, PZI Zen Online, traveler, unexpected gifts, writer Dante, Yunmen
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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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