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Text May 15, 2021

Every Day Is a Good Day

John Tarrant

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Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), Yunmen's Good Day (BCR6)
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Guishan, Hakuin, mind flows, not knowing, poet Barbara Hamby, poet Les Murray, poet Wislawa Szymborska, Swampy Cree Wishing Bone Cycle, Yangshan, Yunmen
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What is the journey for? What is it to have this life? We’re in it—it’s so marvelous, so overwhelming and so incomprehensible. You’ll find, I think, that you can’t stand back from it and answer that question. So the “good day” is just how it is. It’s like the gift of the universe, and you’re in the universe, having received the gift. Transcript of John Tarrant’s dharma talk in Winter Sesshin 2020.

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