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The Importance of Being Lost [EP 26]
Update: 2025-10-28
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Being lost has a transformative beauty to it.
Being lost is a gateway to the extraordinary, as it brings about the possibility of not knowing who we are.
Listen to this episode as Roshi John Tarrant discusses the importance of being tossed out of our certainties and discovering something far more strange and true.
The final evening of sesshin in the bath.
"We can't object to the path or ourselves." - John Tarrant.
Learn more about this episode of Meeting the Inconceivable at https://www.pacificzen.org/26
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