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We Are Interwoven

John Tarrant

Koans

Enter There, How Do I Become Free?, Just This Is It, Mazu's Samadhi of Buddha Nature, Mazu's Your Own Heart Mind, Shitou's Rightful Heir, Southern Barbarians, Taking Part in the Gathering, Zhaozhou's Dharmakaya

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2022 Summer Sesshin, awakening, becoming a buddha, Daoism, Daowu, dreams, gathering, interwoven, June 13 2022, just this, lineage, Mazu, not doing, not knowing, Sandokai, Shitou, transmission, Yaoshan

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Text, Transcript

It’s a noble thing to gather together for the Dharma. It has hidden effects, that if we thought about it from afar, we’d think, Ah, I don’t know. But when we’re together, we can feel, Oh, yeah, it’s happening. I can feel it in my heart and my soul and my fingers.

3004 Words

Video June 15, 2022

Summer Sesshin: Opening Dharma Talk

John Tarrant

Koans

Taking Part in the Gathering, Your Own Heart and Mind

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2022 Summer Sesshin, Daiyu, enlightenment, June 13 2022, Mazu, Shitou, transmission, Yamada Koun

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Video

Great Summer Sesshin, opening eve: Our first in-person sesshin in over 2 years, due to Covid. John Tarrant introduces Shitou’s song, Taking Part in the Gathering, his translation together with Joan Sutherland. In this sutra, Shitou is trying to say what reality actually is. The myriad things are your own self—you look at the world and the world looks back. Whatever appears, enter there! No being for countless eons has ever fallen out of Buddha nature. Recorded June 13th, 2022, at Santa Sabina Center.

26' 48"

Video February 8, 2020