Master Ma
How many times have I gone there for you? – The Blue Dragon’s Pearls
Just at this moment, the whole universe is holding us up. It’s nice for it to have a good job like that. That’s the thing that Master Ma said, the great master Mazu, “At a certain stage you have to make yourself a raft and a ferry for others if you want to go forward from the place you cannot go forward from.” This letting yourself feel—feel the moment and how it spreads out. There is no other moment. There is this, this, this, the Blue Dragon moment. It goes out through the galaxies.
Audio Excerpt: Don’t Try to Cage the Blue Dragon
Audio excerpt: Koans are much more than ‘tools’ – they do you! Your very heart mind is it, so have the intimacy of your life even into death. Friday eve. Summer Sesshin 2020.
Audio Excerpt: Walking on the Red Sky & Navigating Your Bodhisattva Raft
Audio excerpt: John Tarrant, Roshi on meeting our difficult time, quoting Master Ma and Yuanwu. Friday evening at Summer Sesshin
Audio Excerpt: The Beautiful & Terrible Coexist in Our World
Audio- Excerpt from longer Friday morning talk on master Ma, sickness and health at Summer Sesshin.