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Dharma Theme May 1, 2023

Dharma Theme: Great Ancestor Linji

PZI Teachers

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Linji's Blockhead, Linji's Nothing I Dislike (MK38a), Linji's Nothing To Do, Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c), Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38), Linji's True Place (MK38d)
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Meet Great Ancestor Linji: “A nine-colored Phoenix, a thousand-mile horse.” That’s how Linji was described in early Chan times.

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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 Nothing I Dislike (MK38a), Not Knowing Is Most Intimate (MK62)(BS20), Shitou's Turn Your Light Inwards, Step by Step in the Dark (MK72), The Whole World Is Medicine (BCR87)
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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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