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Audio December 23, 2020

Excerpt: Promising Darkness – Journey Into Awakening

John Tarrant

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Dongshan's Five Ranks (1st)
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Dec 20 2020, Journey Into Awakening, moving in the dark, Poet - Margaret Atwood, Poet - Mary Oliver, Poet - Robert Frost, Poet - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet - Wendell Berry, solstice, Vassilisa, Winter
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PZI Zen Online: Excerpt from the last Journey Into Awakening on the last Sunday of 2020. Meeting the intangible in the dark. Showing up for mysterious possibility. Trusting the mystery to make a feast of this strange time. Zen is familiar with impossible tasks! Showing up for them is a blessing for others too. As recorded Dec. 20, 2020. 15 minutes.

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Text October 22, 2020

The Nature of Practice

John Tarrant

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Dogen's Turn Your Light Inward, Don't Believe It, Linji's There Is Nothing I Dislike (MK38a), Not Knowing Is Most Intimate (MK62), Shitou's Turn Your Light Inwards, Step by Step in the Dark (MK72), The Whole World is Medicine (BCR87)
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2016 Summer retreat, 2016 Summer Sesshin, bodhisattva path, buddha nature, empathy, koan, light, Linji, moving in the dark, no rank, no-self, not knowing, practice, take the backward step, unlooked-for help
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Practice. The notion of practice, as something you embody, and you walk through, and you are—rather than something you add, like something added to gasoline. There’s also a sense of moving in the dark, in some way that’s positive. So that in a practice, “not knowing” is on your side.

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