ceremonies

Ceremonies: Spring Prospects

John Tarrant

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ceremonies, destruction, feeling the time, poet Du Fu, poetry, spring, war

Dufu’s The View This Spring, Changan, 757. This is a poem to be read in time of war.

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Video July 29, 2022

Love, Meditation & the Red Thread

John Tarrant

Koans

Why Can't a Clear-eyed Person Cut the Red Thread? (MK30c), Yunmen's Give Me the Reaching

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2022, ceremonies, Egyptian love poem, July 17 2022, love, poet Czesław Miłosz, poet Rilke, poet Robert Creely, poetry, PZI Online Temple, red thread, secret fidelity, Sunday Talks, Whitsun Wedding, writer Philip Larkin

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Video

There is a marvelous living side-by-side when we show each other the greatest possible trust—not trying to rush away the feeling of the eternal, together. John Tarrant’s complete Sunday session from July 17, 2022.

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Sutra Book & Ceremonies March 24, 2022

Dedication: Funeral Service

John Tarrant

Koans

Heart Sutra, Refuges, The Four Boundless Vows, Where Do You Go When You Die?

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ceremonies, funerals, Kanzeon, March 12 2022, Steve Walker Funeral

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Sutra Book & Ceremonies, Text

The bare bones structure of a PZI Funeral Service begins with the koan, “Where do we go when we die?” and includes the Heart Sutra and the Kanzeon Sutra of Endless Life.

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Sutra Book & Ceremonies March 24, 2022