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Audio September 28, 2021

Befriending the Dream

Tess Beasley

Tags
2021, Animal Heart Mind, author James Hillman, Blood soul, dreams, inner life, listening, September, The Visible and Invisible Companionship of Animals
Category
Audio, Excerpt

To befriend the dream, or koan, or your life, is to participate in it and enter its imagery and mood. Befriending begins with a plain attempt to listen, to give it time and patience, drawing no conclusions. Tess Beasley reads from Jungian analyst James Hillman’s “Dreams and the Blood Soul,” during John Tarrant’s Sunday Talk, The Animal Heart Mind, on September 26, 2021. Excerpt.

3' 2"
Audio September 27, 2020

Hanging Lanterns at the Gates of the Autumn Temple: What Is Your Light?

John Tarrant

Koans
What Is Your Light? (BCR86), Yunmen Has a Light (BCR86)
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Dawei, Huangbo, inner life, light, Poet - Thomas Transtromer, Sept 27 2020, universe, Yunmen
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Audio

Hanging Lanterns at the Gates of the Autumn Temple: John continues working with Yunmen’s koan, What is your light? Huangbo’s calm mysterious joy. Music on saxophone by Michael Wilding. PZI Zen Online, as recorded Sept. 27, 2020.

90' 10"
Audio April 15, 2020

The Stone Woman Gives Birth in the Middle of the Night

Tess Beasley

Koans
Stone Woman Gives Birth (MK33)
Tags
birth, corona virus, dreams, gestational time, inner life, underworld
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Audio

PZI Zen Online Audio: Wondrous images of our uncertain ‘gestational time’ in coronavirus lockdown. The children of night; doom, destiny, dreams, and lamentation among them. Eros born of Nix’ (Goddess of the Night) a silver egg laid in the lap of darkness. Rawness of love in out dark time. Includes Tess’ intro, silent meditation, participant insights. As recorded April 14 2020.

84' 45"