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2018 Summer Sesshin
Into the Gone Beyond
Evening dharma talk by John Tarrant in Summer Sesshin. As recorded June 13, 2018.
The Heart Sutra Koan
Evening dharma talk by John Tarrant in Summer Sesshin. As recorded June 14, 2018.
Mantra of Great Magic
Evening dharma talk by John Tarrant in Summer Sesshin. As recorded June 12, 2018.
The Heart Sutra and Koans
The Heart Sutra in the context of its relationship to koans and what koans are. I want to pursue that line a little bit. And the first thing to say about – probably the first attitude people have to koans is that they are a sort of tool, a gadget of some kind, and you use them and you concentrate on them, and you use them – a can opener for the mind
Heart Sutra Variations
The Heart Sutra, like any koan, contains the universe, and so you have to go in somewhere. I want to go in through the “Mantra of Great Magic.” Even the word “mantra” is, in a certain way, a reference to magic, a sort of portable access to reality that you can carry around with you. And the word “magic” is also used for the word “mantra,” so where we use “mantra” to produce magic, there’s a transformative quality about the mantra so that, when you repeat it, when you keep company with it, you end up in its world.
Emptiness, Meditation, Koans
John Tarrant gives a talk on Friday evening of the 2018 Summer Sesshin. June 15, 2018.
Heart Sutra
John Tarrant gives a talk on Thursday evening of the 2018 Summer Sesshin. June 14, 2018.
Koans and the Practice of Little Things
Rachel Boughton and David Weinstein give a talk on Saturday morning of the Summer 2018 Sesshin. June 16, 2018.
Compassion
Ilana Berger gives a talk on Friday morning of the 2018 Summer Sesshin. June 15, 2018.
Story Time
Jon Joseph gives a talk on Thursday morning of the 2018 Summer Sesshin. June 14, 2018.
Heart Sutra Variations
John Tarrant gives a talk on Tuesday Evening of the 2018 Summer Sesshin. June 12, 2018.
Heart Sutra
Rachel Boughton gives a talk on Tuesday morning of the Summer 2018 Sesshin. June 12, 2018.
Koans and Mantras
David Weinstein talks about his internalized mantra-phobia, fourth Chan ancestor Daishin (translates to “the way of faith”), and the parallels between early Chan history and his own practice of chanting mantras and working with koans. A morning dharma talk in Summer Sesshin, June 13, 2018.