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Text August 14, 2020

Spirit of Love, Joy & Play in Koans

John Tarrant

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Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2), Yanguan's Rhinoceros Fan (BCR91)(BS25), Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
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2014 Summer Sesshin, Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma, embodying koans, play, Rhinoceros, sickness and medicine, what am I, Yunmen
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Value a sort of play and see if you can break the koan—the koan will be amused. And see it and let it into your heart, and see what comes, or follow it around, or have it follow you. And finally you’ll realize, “Oh, I’m here. I’m free.”

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