tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617743654624331674.post6120427366748955754..comments2023-05-15T04:59:41.895-07:00Comments on Zenosaurus: John Tarrant's Course in Koans: 0 Introduction—The Zenosaurus Course in Koans—What Zen 2.0 MeansJohn Tarranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14530088094797022315noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617743654624331674.post-60779055192344431772009-10-26T17:33:52.830-07:002009-10-26T17:33:52.830-07:00What is sickness; times when I've been sick; h...What is sickness; times when I've been sick; how it changed me.<br />For me, to be sick is to be stopped, re(s)trained, soaked in mortality. For example, as a young woman I experienced recurring back pain. Over time, this began to cure my chronic fantasies of perfectibility and resolution. It freed me to learn to work with restriction and injury quite effectively. <br /><br />Medicines that have worked; 'cures'; surprises.<br />Cures for me usually feel like gifts – coming precisely from places I am not, till the gift appears, capable of imagining, and sometimes taking forms I wouldn’t have thought of as solutions either. For example the accidental discovery that just moving my body (yoga, running) could relieve depression and anxiety in a way that insight alone never did. Or being with my sister through the progression of a cancer that killed her but also enabled experiences that helped her to lay down burdens I never thought she could lose. Some paradox at work here – only soul cures feel real to me, and they’re profoundly bodily things.<br /><br />Do I feel like I know who I am; struggles with identity; having a self.<br />I know many of my default responses – the things I fall into when I’m tired or anxious, and also a kind of background oscillation between expansiveness and withdrawal. But I’d categorise these as sickness rather than identity. My happiest and most at home state is a kind of negative capability – when I can widen and be in conversation with the world without grasping or rejecting. Have always experienced identity as suffocating, inadequate, whether conferred from outside or taken on by me.<br /><br />Random images or thoughts.<br />Homoeopathy/poison as medicine; intertwined kundalini serpents; Isaiah’s man of sorrows. Body as world and every experience as both sickness and cure – not just that they correspond but that they’re the same thing.Angela Rockelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09425507835013540087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617743654624331674.post-65416980223543433362009-10-23T22:44:15.155-07:002009-10-23T22:44:15.155-07:00And the koan is also a bus stop where the bus to S...And the koan is also a bus stop where the bus to San Francisco arrives but then the driver won't let you on because you don't have exact fare. Then you have to decide how many years you're willing to wait for the next bus before giving up and walking back home where you started.Ellen Etchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15474498233967516879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617743654624331674.post-37727459958889467952009-10-22T20:46:40.576-07:002009-10-22T20:46:40.576-07:00More time, more ruminations:
1) Placebo can be med...More time, more ruminations:<br />1) Placebo can be medicine too if we believe it to be enough?!<br />2) What if I'm not ill, I'm actually more of a Dr. - I can help others get the medicine they need.fuyuashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06413779535029699779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617743654624331674.post-21232936865060084182009-10-21T19:47:43.961-07:002009-10-21T19:47:43.961-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.SeaSprayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141024677016585817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617743654624331674.post-4989838395005552042009-10-21T01:03:19.503-07:002009-10-21T01:03:19.503-07:00Thanks, John. This is exciting!Thanks, John. This is exciting!Mary Churchillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476785327912666291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617743654624331674.post-82068252712853632682009-10-20T23:16:20.477-07:002009-10-20T23:16:20.477-07:00This is great, Web 2.0 makes no sense, Zen 2.0 doe...This is great, Web 2.0 makes no sense, Zen 2.0 does!<br /><br />Anyways, thanks for the offer, you always make it so inviting! OK, so:<br />1) Sick!<br />2) Nurtured, almost feels like the thousands of hands again ...<br />3) Mmmm, not quite, need to go on a different date with this one, OK, what's it doing tomorrow night?fuyuashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06413779535029699779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617743654624331674.post-82583769009628196452009-10-20T18:14:07.117-07:002009-10-20T18:14:07.117-07:00Great stuff!Great stuff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com