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  • June 14, 2020
  • 96' 32"

Meditation for Troubled Times: The Everlasting Body Runs Deepest Indigo

John Tarrant

Description

Li Bai, Du Fu, Dalong, and Primo Levi speak about what remains, what lives, what holds us in the universe—even as we feel most perishable, sad, or defeated. The light is still there in all things, even without a foundation to stand on.

Koans
Dalong's Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82), Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation, Sutra of Complete Enlightenment (BS45), The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
Tagged
Covid pandemic, Czesław Miłosz, Dalong, delusion, demonstrations, Du Fu, friendship, Land of Demons, Li Bai, off course, Primo Levi, Rainer Maria Rilke, rakshasas, tumultuous times
Summary

We are in the midst of civil unrest around racism and the institutions that support it.

Li Bai, Du Fu, Dalong, and Primo Levi speak about what remains, what lives, what holds us in the universe—even as we feel most perishable, sad, or defeated. The light is still there in all things, even without a foundation to stand on.

Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Friends, recorded June 14, 2020

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