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Dharma Theme May 12, 2023

Dharma Theme: Animal Teachers

PZI Teachers

Koans
Zhaozhou's No (GG1)(BS18), Zhaozhou’s Dog (GG1)(BS18)
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animals, birds, Blue Dragon’s Cave, buffalo, butterfly, dogs, dolphin, donkey, elephant, fox, goose, lion, monkey, ox, Oxherding Pictures, rhinoceros, tiger, Tyger, Zhuangzi
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Dharma Theme, Text

Animals give us the gifts of their living presence, and we feel the profound effect they have on our lives. Animals surprise and enlarge us. We become the animal we are seeing, and that is a primary Zen move. The way we become the world that we are part of, is a profound part of Zen.

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Text March 29, 2023

A Dog’s Life

John Tarrant

Koans
Where Do You Go When You Die?, Zhaozhou's No (GG1)(BS18)
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Baling, buddha nature, companionship, death, dogs, dying, love, play, poet Walt Whitman, Zhaozhou
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Text, Transcript

John tells a story about dogs and Buddha nature upon the death of a beloved dog: Animals have their own large awareness in which we can share. Meditation is one way to do this. It resets the mind to zero and we stop waving our arms about so much, and we enter a communion with the universe. 

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