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Audio September 13, 2021

Finding the Self, Forgetting the Self – Drifting Toward the Land of the Rakshasas

John Tarrant

Koans
The Land of Demons (EV42), The War (MK25), Yunmen's Light (BCR86)
Tags
demons, difficult times, End of Summer Dreams, kindness, Poet - Tony Hoagland, rakshasas, September 5 2021, Spells, sunday talk
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We’re in a time that is difficult, but it is our time—and difficulty is not the only thing going on. Creativity is also present, but it is easy to be crazy right now. The old masters understood this situation. September 5, 2021.

77' 23"
Audio September 13, 2021

A Spell for Passing Through Danger

John Tarrant

Koans
Dongshan's Cold Kills You Heat Kills You (BCR43), Yunmen's Light (BCR86)
Tags
2021, Difficulty, dreams, End of Summer Dreams, poet Santoka, poet William Merwynn, september 11, Spells, sunday talk, Turning into, 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"