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Dharma Theme March 29, 2023

Dharma Theme: Not Getting It – Doing It Wrong

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Koans
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), Dahui's Great Doubt, Fayan's Students Roll Up the Blinds (GG26), Shoushan's Three Phrase BS76
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The Zen approach is not about avoiding mistakes but bringing them to the path. Making a mistake opens the tenderness in us and can be more helpful than not making one. Then, the mistakes are not mistakes.

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Text September 13, 2021

The World Catches Us Every Time

John Tarrant

Koans
Abiding Nowhere the Heart-Mind Comes Forth (MK65b), Peach Blossoms (MK37) (EV8)
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2014, articles, disorderly karmic consciousness, distraction, Lion's Roar, meditation, Miscellaneous Koan, not having the wrong life, poet T.S. Eliot, the nature of mind
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Distraction can have a long arc, and until the end of the story, you can’t say what’s a distraction and what’s a calling.

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