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It’s all medicine, really. Everything has Buddha nature, beauty and value. Healing is the big point of view. John Tarrant reads his poem, Healing Is Like Kissing, written for the dedication of an integrative medicine center. From Sunday Zen on March 5, 2023.
Summary
Yunmen said to the assembly, “Sickness and medicine correspond with each other.
The whole earth is medicine. What am I?”
—Blue Cliff Record Case 87
It’s all medicine, really. Everything has Buddha nature, beauty and value. Healing is the big point of view.
So the point is not to panic when the big moments come. If you can move out of your own point of view it becomes clearer. Planning and scheming for healing, or anything, isn’t it.
Illnesses of the soul can require a longer recovery, but throughout it you’ll notice you feel held by the Dao. Life is interested in us! The cosmos is intertwined by default. When we are genuinely practicing, we make an honorable offering to life in that we turn towards it, choose it.
John Tarrant reads his poem, Healing Is Like Kissing, written for the dedication of an integrative medicine center.
From a Sunday Zen session with John Tarrant & Friends on March 5, 2023.
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