Zhuangzi
The Great Turning: Solstice, Juneteenth & A Butterfly Flies up!
PZI Zen Online: Solstice and the big wheels turn. Juneteenth celebrations/demonstrations are encouraging. Navigating and feeling the ‘covid bardos’ of long confinement. Has nothing happened ? Maybe all sorts of things are happening? ‘We can’t stay here long’. What is a border? Old injustices are looming. Readings from Slave Narratives, poetry: Li Bai, Alberto Rios, Czeslaw Milosz, As recorded June 21 2020.
The Transformation of Things
Allison talks about the ‘transformation of things’ referred to in the Zhuangzi koan where he dreamed he was a butterfly. Summer Sesshin, 2019
Knock on Any Door: Daoist Masters and Zen Koans
John Tarrant talks about the bond between Daoism and Chan Zen. See transcription with same name :https://www.pacificzen.org/library/knock-on-any-door-daoist-masters-zen-koans/
Zhuangzi Dreamed He was A Butterfly
From Sunday July 21st Introductory talk for the 2019 Summer Sesshin