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Audio September 30, 2021

Animal Heart Mind: Readings with John Tarrant

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animal heart-mind, haiku, poems, poet Christopher Smart, poet Walt Whitman, poet William Merwin, the visible and invisible companionship of animals
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Audio, Excerpt

John Tarrant reads poems and haiku from Issa, Walt Whitman, Christopher Smart, William Merwyn and others. From Sunday Talk: The Animal Heart Mind. 12 minutes.

15' 11"
Audio September 13, 2021

A Spell for Passing Through Danger

John Tarrant

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Dongshan's Cold Kills You Heat Kills You (BCR43), Yunmen's Light (BCR86)
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2021, difficulty, dreams, End of Summer Dreams, poet Santoka, poet William Merwin, September 11 2021, spells, turning into the difficulty, writer Joseph Conrad
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“You must in the destructive element immerse…” You have to go through it otherwise you can’t have real resolution. Not fleeing the difficulty of things, and orienting yourself to the infinite. “A person on a raft flows on the stream by throwing themselves away.” The importance of the smallest things in the this-is-it dream.

68' 28"