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Never Lacking for Salt & Sauce [EP 27]
Update: 2025-11-11
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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.
"Slowly the dharma just soaks into you." - John Tarrant.
Learn more about this episode of Meeting the Inconceivable at https://www.pacificzen.org/27
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