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Dharma Theme
March 22, 2023
Dharma Theme: In the Wild – Mountain Koans & Poems
PZI Teachers
Koans
A Thousand Mountains (MK13), Be a Tiger in the Mountains, Changsha Wandering in the Mountains (BCR36), Dancing Mountains (MK5), Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52), Going to Wild Places (MK73), Silver Mountain and Iron Cliff (BCR 57), The Green Mountain Walks About (BS41), Tortoise Mountain Wakes Up (BCR22), Yunmen's East Mountain Walks on the Water (EV49)
Eventually you come to a place where you can’t go on and you can’t go back. You have arrived at the base of cliffs; you can’t scale them, you can’t get around them, and there’s no handy tunnel through them. It’s a daunting place—that’s the point of it. And when you arrive here your life and your journey can become your own.
Video
June 30, 2017
We’re Going to Talk About Dragons
“For twenty years I’ve suffered bitterly – how many times have I gone into the cave of the Blue Dragon for you?”
Jon Joseph talks about the difficult struggle of life, and suggests that even in the midst of the hardest struggle there is a beauty, and a sort of redemption in the realization that the struggle is not separate – but a part of the whole package of existence.