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We don’t get much say over what the world does and we don’t get much say over what enters our minds. Our job is to hold steady for the world, for those to come, to make a path for people to follow.
Summary
Anxiety in Autumn: There Is a Way Through – The Golden Wind Is Revealing Itself
This is the autumn of anxiety. There are always things in our minds that we didn’t put there. People are dying. Our minds are anxious. We don’t get much say over what the world does and we don’t get much say over what enters our minds. That’s what minds are for.
Our job is to hold steady for the world, for those to come, to make a path for people to follow.
A student asked Yunmen, “When the tree withers and the leaves fall, what’s that?”
Yunmen said, “The Golden Wind reveals itself.”
—Yunmen Reveals the Golden Wind (Blue Cliff Record Case 27), transl. by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland
PZI Sunday Zen dharma talk with John Tarrant & Friends, recorded November 19, 2023.
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