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Dharma Theme: Dealing with Demons
If you’ve got demons, you’re alive! But you don’t have to get on board with them. Demons come out of your own heart, just like enlightenment.
Dharma Theme: Landscape as Teacher
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When we wake up and see our true place in the universe, it’s as if we have stepped out of a landscape and then we’re willing to step back into it. We appear and go back into the brocade. Then, we have our true place in the universe.
Dharma Theme: Home and Not Home
It is the Chan way to understand that the fullness of life resides in us, and the experience of life, whatever it is, is all for you. Our task is to have the life we have.
Great Silence at the Beginning: When Nowhere Is Home
When even your own being can feel like the wrong container, Tess Beasley talks about the other side of finding home, where nowhere is home: the great silence that is before all divisions and differentiation. 15-minute excerpt from January Sunday Zen, Part 4.
Homecoming Zen
“Where ever you are, take the role of host, and whatever spot you stand in will be a true one.” Allison Atwill discusses the joy of encountering problems, and feeling at home in our lives, wherever they may lead.