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Dharma Theme June 9, 2023

Dharma Theme: Adrift

PZI Teachers

Koans
Changsha Wandering in the Mountains (BCR36), Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds (MK23b), Jiashan Meets the Boat Monk, Mazu's Make Yourself a Raft, Solitary Boat
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a solitary boat with no oars, adrift, being lost, carried in the dark, lostness, solitary boat, synchronicity, trusting in the Dao, unexpected help
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Dharma Theme, Text

The mind is a great artist, ceaselessly creating and assessing problems. The territory of the koan is finding the delicious helplessness of the mind and body, and settling into that—it’s the robe of the moment.

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Video April 1, 2023

Winter Sesshin – Trusting in the Dao

John Tarrant

Koans
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2), If You Get It the First Time (BS76), Mazu's Purpose of Your Life, Solitary Boat, The Moon Sets at Midnight (BS76), The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6), Yunmen Says It Upside Down (BCR15), Yunmen's Give Me the Reaching
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2023 Winter Sesshin, Bodhidharma, Daodejing, Daoism, February 3 2023, Laozi, Mazu, moon, Mother Deep, solitary boat, Valley Spirit, vast emptiness, Yunmen
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Explanations of Zen, or of anything, are not it. Zen does not try to make you pure—it tries to make you whole. We can trust in the Dao, but by explaining it, we move away from it. Something deeper is going on, carrying us.

22' 33"