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Zhaozhou's Dharmakaya

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KOAN:

A student asked, “What is the Dharmakaya?”
Zhaozhou said, “What do you dislike that you asked that question?”

Text June 23, 2023

We Are Interwoven

John Tarrant

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Enter There, How Do I Become Free?, Just This Is It, Mazu's Samadhi of Buddha Nature, Mazu's Your Own Heart Mind, Shitou's Rightful Heir, Southern Barbarians, Taking Part in the Gathering, Zhaozhou's Dharmakaya
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2022 Summer Sesshin, awakening, becoming a buddha, Daoism, Daowu, dreams, gathering, interwoven, June 13 2022, just this, lineage, Mazu, not doing, not knowing, Sandokai, Shitou, transmission, Yaoshan
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It’s a noble thing to gather together for the Dharma. It has hidden effects, that if we thought about it from afar, we’d think, Ah, I don’t know. But when we’re together, we can feel, Oh, yeah, it’s happening. I can feel it in my heart and my soul and my fingers.

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