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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans: March 2011
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans. Thursday, March 10, 2011. 13 No—The Zenosaurus Course in Koans. Two Pieces on the Great Koan, 'No'. I The Great Koan No, Your Dog, and the Meaning of Life. A koan brings about a change of heart—its value is to transform the mind. The problem we are trying to solve with a koan is this:. 8221; or “Is that boy or girl hot? 8221; or “Do I have egg on my face? 8220; or “What will the cancer biopsy numbers be when they come in? The kindness of a koan consists mainly ...
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans: February 2010
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. 9 Sixteen Meditators Get Into The Bath Together—The Zenosaurus Course in Koans. Sixteen Bodhisattvas Take a Bath. The koan for this week:. In the old days there were sixteen bodhisattvas. They all got into the bath together and realized the cause of water. They called out, “This subtle touch reveals the light that is in everything. We have reached the place where the sons and daughters of the Buddha live.”. The Blue Cliff Record.
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Meditation Group | It's Alive! Zen Meditation
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Working with a Teacher. We’ll be having our last weekly meditation session for the year this Wednesday, 12/14. At the usual time and place. We will pick back up again on Wednesday, 1/4. Sixteen bodhisattvas stepped into the bath together. They cried out in unison, “This subtle touch reveals the light that is in everything! We have reached the place where the sons and daughters of the Buddha live.”. What’s the skinny? What happens during the group? Some basic group suggestions:. In northern California....
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Working with a Teacher | It's Alive! Zen Meditation
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Working with a Teacher. Working with a Teacher. Zen is a path. And it leads somewhere. It is also a process; deep things can change within us when we engage with a koan, and this can have a profound effect on our life. It can be liberating and wonderful but also confusing and discouraging at times, so it’s good to have someone to touch base with. Are a way to get in touch with the old masters. And the author of the Zen blog It’s Alive! He has been a student of John Tarrant, Roshi. Being friends with a ko...
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans: November 2009
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans. Sunday, November 22, 2009. 6 The Moon Sets At Midnight—The Zenosaurus Course In Koans. Walls Falling Down at Midnight. Leo Tolstoy War and Peace. Trans Pevear and Volokhonsky) p.268. When I was in grade school and the teacher asked a question, I would wave my hand and say, “I know! This week’s koan:. A student asked, “When did you get it? The teacher said, “The moon sets at midnight, I walk alone through the town.”. This koan shows the mind scrambling around to...
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans: December 2012
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans. Friday, December 21, 2012. 14 When Something Confronts You Don't Believe It— The Zenosaurus Course In Koans. A Chinese sage said this about the mind:. Whatever confronts you, don’t believe it. When something appears shine your light on it. Have confidence in the light that is always working inside you. Fear is one of the gateways. At one moment there is a conventional landscape, with copy machines, convenience stores and parking garages, and suddenly, fear!
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Things We Like | It's Alive! Zen Meditation
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Working with a Teacher. Here are some links to other zen things we like:. Pacific Zen Institute’s (PZI) website: www.pacificzen.org. PZI’s San Mateo zendo (with a great blog by Jon Joseph, Roshi): www.sanmateozen.org. A tremendous blog by a good Zen friend, Amy Robinson: www.turningplanet.org/blog/. John Tarrant, Roshi’s personal website: www.tarrantworks.com. PZI’s Santa Rosa Zendo (great blog by Rachel Boughton, Roshi): www.santarosazen.org. Not knowing is most intimate. The Secret Life of Crises.
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Koans and Performance Project : Asa Horvitz
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Go Down, Moses/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. Koans and Performance Project. From 2012-2013 I worked one-on-one with John Tarrant Roshi. Of the Pacific Zen Institute. Designing a way for performing artists to create contemporary performance material based on engaging with Zen Koan practice. And Pig Iron Theater Company. A series of performances, film documentation and print articles. In addition to John Tarrant Roshi and the Pacific Zen Institute, the group collaborated with instrument builders Bart Hopkin.
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans: 1 The Whole World Is Medicine
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Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans. Thursday, July 3, 2014. 1 The Whole World Is Medicine. The whole world is medicine. This post was originally done in 2010 as a quick offering for a group koan salon. I rewrote it in Spring 2014). I was not separated from people,. Grief and pity joined us. We forget—I kept saying—that we are all. Children of the King. Czeslaw Milosz (trans. Robert Hass). Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other. The whole world is medicine. What am I? Sickness tells m...
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