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Summer 2019 sesshin

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Text August 6, 2020

Knock on Any Door – Daoist Masters & Zen Koans

John Tarrant

Koans
Abiding Nowhere the Heart-Mind Comes Forth (MK65b), Bankei's Miracle, Dragon Singing in a Withered Tree, Huineng's Original Face (GG23), Knock on Any Door (BCR), Nothing Holy (BCR1)(BS2), Stone Hitting Bamboo, Vast Emptiness
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Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, buddha nature, Daoism, Diamond Sutra, Du Fu, emptiness, no trace, not knowing, out of nowhere, Summer 2019 sesshin
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Whatever your condition is, you can see the “I have joy.” Out of that emptiness, out of what seems unpromising—the dark material, the valley spirit, the enigma, out of the mystery, out of what I don’t understand—it just appears. The joy just appears.

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Video August 17, 2019

Where Impurity Meets Purity

Jon Joseph

Koans
Dogen’s Storehouse of Treasures (MK66)
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Chuang tzu, Daoism & Zen, Jon Joseph, Mt. Madonna Center, purification, Summer 2019 sesshin
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Jon Joseph talks about delusion and awakening in Zhuangzi. The treasure house of heaven. (Some sound anomalies we are striving to correct – but wanted you to have access to the talk after Summer Sesshin. – KALPA Team)

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Video August 15, 2019

Listening to Your Own Heart

John Tarrant

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Yunmen's Day of the Full Moon (BCR6)
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Listening to Your Own Heart recorded by John Tarrant at Mt Madonna Summer Sesshin 2019

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