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Text August 25, 2020

Hosting the Life You Have – Koans for Hard Times

John Tarrant

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Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Sixteen Bodhisattvas Take a Bath (BCR78), Times of Great Difficulty
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2016 Summer Retreat, Linji, poet Anna Swir, poet Basho, poet Tony Hoagland, strawberry parable, Zhaozhou
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Rilke said, “Life is always right.” Whatever I think about that saying, this is the life I have and I can’t have another life. And really, fundamentally, I don’t want another one because this one is so rich and compelling no matter what’s going down right now.

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