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Text July 13, 2021

Solstice, Juneteenth, a Butterfly Flies Up!

John Tarrant

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When the Rain Beats Down (MK28d), Zhuangzi Dreamed He Was a Butterfly
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2021, Daoism, dying, Father's Day, intimacy, June 2021, Laozi, molasses jacket, poet Czesław Miłosz, poet Juan Ramón Jimenez, poet Li Bai, solstice, Valley Spirit, writer Alberto Rios, Zhuangzi
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Even a time of torpor, or a time when plans come apart, or we thought the culture was going in one way and it’s going in another—we rely on the spaciousness, we rely on not what we’ve planned and schemed, but we rely on what’s been opened up in our hearts. Transcript from the PZI Zen Online recording from Sunday, June 21, 2020.

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Audio December 23, 2020

Excerpt: Promising Darkness – Journey Into Awakening

John Tarrant

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Dongshan's Five Ranks (1st)
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December 20 2020, Journey Into Awakening, moving in the dark, poet Margaret Atwood, poet Mary Oliver, poet Robert Frost, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet Wendell Berry, solstice, Vasilisa the Brave, winter
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PZI Zen Online: Excerpt from the last Journey Into Awakening on the last Sunday of 2020. Meeting the intangible in the dark. Showing up for mysterious possibility. Trusting the mystery to make a feast of this strange time. Zen is familiar with impossible tasks! Showing up for them is a blessing for others too. As recorded Dec. 20, 2020. 15 minutes.

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