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Dharma Theme June 11, 2022

Dharma Theme: John Tarrant’s Zenosaurus Koans 1–19

John Tarrant

ZENOSAURUS: 19 Koans with introductions and commentaries from John Tarrant, as first published on his website, tarrantworks.

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Text October 8, 2020

Dream Creatures – The Zenosaurus Course on Koans

John Tarrant

Zenosaurus: Dreams play an essential part in the current of life—while I’m not paying attention, my dreams turn the lumps, details, and meetings of the day into art, giving them depth and a warm amber light.

677 Words
Text October 8, 2020

2 Zenosaurus: Transparent Poems 2 – Transparent Poems & Poems that are Journals

John Tarrant

Zenosaurus: Through poems like this I keep an erratic journal of the thoughts that I don’t quite understand—the thoughts outside my usual thoughts. They don’t have a punch line.

778 Words
Text October 8, 2020

Albert Saijo and the Long Journey – The Zenosaurus Course on Koans

John Tarrant

Zenosaurus: Kevin Diminyatz, an artist and long time friend of PZI, told me today that Albert Saijo just died in the volcano on the Big Island. Kevin is doing his funeral.

198 Words
Text October 8, 2020

The Zen of Laryngitis – Zenosaurus

John Tarrant

Zenosaurus: Laryngitis – As I came out of retreat I developed laryngitis. It is a different kind of silence. It’s like being a very innocent child engaging the world in new ways.

409 Words
Text October 8, 2020

Searching for What It’s All About – Zenosaurus

John Tarrant

Zenosaurus: My Kaiser doc with solemn demeanor sent me to be scanned for cancer on the bone. I could tell the docs thought it was a likely outcome, and while I didn’t believe they were right, my mind did play the scenarios all by itself, without instruction from me.

657 Words
Text October 8, 2020

Meditation and Web Surfing – Zenosaurus

John Tarrant

Zenosaurus: What’s the “right way” to be online? When there’s a relationship, most people feel their experience is more nourishing.

329 Words