Audio Files
June 21, 2020
96' 1"

The Great Turning: Solstice, Juneteenth, A Butterfly Flies Up!

John Tarrant

Description

Solstice, and the big wheels turn. Navigating and feeling the Covid bardos of long confinement; Juneteenth celebrations and demonstrations are encouraging. Has nothing happened? Maybe all sorts of things are happening?

Koans

When the Rain Beats Down (MK28d)

Tagged

Alberto Rios, border, Covid pandemic, Czesław Miłosz, Ikkyu, Li Bai, otherness, the universe, time, transformation, Zhuangzi

Summary

Solstice, and the big wheels turn. Navigating and feeling the Covid bardos of long confinement; Juneteenth celebrations and demonstrations are encouraging.

Has nothing happened? Maybe all sorts of things are happening?

“We can’t stay here long.”

John reads from Slave Narratives, and the poetry of Li Bai, Alberto Rios, and Czeslaw Milosz.

Sunday Zen with John Tarrnat & Friends, recorded June 21, 2020