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Dharma Theme August 1, 2023

Dharma Theme: Dealing with Demons

PZI Teachers

Koans
Hell in an SUV (MK26), Spoken by Demons, The Land of Demons (EV42)
Tags
crisis, demons, difficult times, exile, goblins, Guishan, Hakuin, Hell, home, initiation, Land of Demons, meeting difficulty, not knowing, rakshasas, welcome, Yangshan, Zhaozhou
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Dharma Theme, Text

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.

153 Words
Audio April 23, 2021

Spring Sesshin 2021: The Lostness & Wandering on the Pilgrim’s Path

Jesse Cardin

Koans
Peach Blossoms (MK37) (EV8)
Tags
2021 Spring Sesshin, demons, Land of Demons, lost, pilgrimage, wandering
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Audio

PZI’s Jesse Cardin, Director of It’s Alive Zen in San Antonio, Texas, reminds us that lostness is part of peach blossoms, and explores how that might appear on the second day of a retreat—or whenever. As recorded April 9, 2021.

54' 1"
Audio June 15, 2020

The Everlasting Body Runs Deepest Indigo – Meditation for Troubled Times

John Tarrant

Koans
Dalong's Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82), Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation, Sutra of Complete Enlightenment (BS45), The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
Tags
Book of Serenity, Covid, Dalong (Ta Lung), delusive thinking, demonstrations, friendship, June 14 2020, Land of Demons, off course, poet Czesław Miłosz, poet Du Fu, poet Li Bai, poet Rilke, rakshasas, tumultuous times, writer Primo Levi
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Audio

We are in the midst of great civil unrest around racism and the institutions that support it. Li Bai, Du Fu, Dalong & Primo Levi speak about what remains, what lives, what holds us in the universe—even as we feel most perishable, sad, defeated. The light is still there in all things, even without a foundation to stand on. As recorded June 14, 2020.

96' 32"