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Koan Summer: A Fire Runs Through All Things

Jun 18
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It is a koan, this condition of climate change we find ourselves in because of radically altering the biosphere. And it is not an optional koan—it works on all of us even if we don’t want to work on it. The koan approach is the only way to fully meet something that threatens to kill us. Am I willing to be changed? Am I willing to learn something that I wish I didn’t have to learn?


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