Episode 27: Never Lacking for Salt & Sauce
By John Tarrant
In this episode, Roshi John Tarrant shares an old Zen story about navigating impossible times and realizing how life carries us even when it’s tough.
“For thirty years, I’ve been just getting by,” says the teacher in question, “but I’ve never lacked for salt or sauce.”
What makes the salt and sauce of our lives?
Listen to this moving and joyful exploration of how, no matter our circumstances, it is a good life, and that we, too, never lack for salt or sauce.
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Slowly the dharma just soaks into you.
— John Tarrant
Show notes:
- What are the salt and the sauce
- How can we increase awareness of our awakening
- What happens during awakening
- Where to find a connection in a complaint
- What did Mazu do during the time of trouble
You do not have to wait for the right moment; the salt and sauce are happening now.
— John Tarrant
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Salt… is marvelous because you put it in a soup and it disappears and you can’t see the salt, but you can taste the soup is different.
— John Tarrant