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Video July 11, 2022

What It Is to Take Part in the Gathering

Michelle Riddle

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Taking Part in the Gathering
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2022 Summer Sesshin, June 14 2022, Morning Talk, not holding back, Shitou, true nature, vessel, video clip
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Sesshin is an opportunity to experience your own true nature, to help hold the retreat vessel for yourself and everyone else, and for not skipping out on what is troubling you. From a talk on the first day of Summer Sesshin, June 14, 2022. 10 minutes.

10' 37"

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Article September 17, 2021

Escape Arts & Sam the Cyborg

John Tarrant

Koans
Laozi's True Traveler
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2009, articles, control, koan practice, Lion's Roar, meetings, not holding back
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Escape arts disassemble the walls or, as in dreams, allow us to step right through them. We can also think of escape arts as practices that appear in moments of natural clarity. They are often similar to the moves you make if you are interested in Zen and koans, but the world teaches escape arts to us; they just appear in a situation without any conscious feeling that you are entering spiritual territory.

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