Summer 2019 Sesshin

Knock on Any Door: Daoist Masters & Zen Koans

John Tarrant

Koans

Abiding Nowhere the Mind Comes Forth (65b), Bankei's Miracle, Dragon Singing in A Dead Tree, Huineng's Original Face (GG23), Knock on any door (BC Preface), Stone Hitting Bamboo, Vast emptiness nothing holy

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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

“Great understanding is broad and unhurried. Small understanding is cramped and busy.” I don’t know if that’s true, but it kinda sounds good. “No other and no self, no self and no distinctions” – that’s almost it. But I don’t know what makes it this way. I think this is one of the cool things about what Daoism brought to Zen. Nobody knows what makes things this way. And we don’t pretend that.

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Video August 17, 2019

Where Impurity Meets Purity in Zhuangzi

Jon Joseph

Koans

Dogen’s Storehouse of Treasures (MK66)

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Chuang tzu, Jon Joseph, Mt. Madonna Center, purification, Summer 2019 Sesshin, Taoism & Zen

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

Koans

Jiashan wields some gardening tools (BC68), Yunmen's Day of the Full Moon (BC6)