Great Failure

Great Failure track listing

1. Disc 1

   1. Introduction (1:58)
   2. Bob Dylan Sang, "There's No Success Like Failure..." (5:60)
   3. Part 1: Katagiri Roshi Said, "Don't Worry If You Write the Truth" (3:55)
   4. Five Days Later, I Was Standing on the Podium... (11:30)
   5. Plan Was to Visit My Parents After the Conference (10:58)
   6. Very First Time My Parents Challenged My Zen Life... (5:30)
   7. Three Strikes and You're Out (11:26)
   8. It Was Not Always This Sweet Between Us (6:38)
   9. After I Graduated, I Moved to Detroit to Live with My Boyfriend (7:43)
   10. Next Morning I Marched out of the House (8:43)
   11. One Night, As Soon as the Meeting at the Rape Crisis Center Was Over... (8:80)

2. Disc 2

   1. Introduction (1:44)
   2. In September of That Year... (6:58)
   3. By the Time I Reached Prague... (10:28)
   4. After That Visit to Santa Fe... (6:10)
   5. My Father Had Won and Lost Hundreds, Perhaps Thousands... (9:45)
   6. I Heard the Story Many Times That Money Ran Short... (11:80)
   7. On the Last Night of My Visit in Florida (6:40)
   8. Next Morning, I Was Sitting at Gate 34... (2:13)
   9. Part 2: Terry Tempest Williams Said in an Interview... (7:44)
   10. If This Were Your Last Moment on Earth... (7:20)
   11. I Traveled to Czechoslovakia with My Friend Carol... (7:15)
   12. Short Plane Ride from Seattle to Portland... (8:41)

3. Disc 3

   1. Introduction (1:45)
   2. Book Is a Public Thing (8:44)
   3. At a Party in San Francisco... (6:59)
   4. Just Two Weeks Before the End of the Second Green Gulch Retreat... (8:42)
   5. Five Days Later, I Flew Home from California... (8:46)
   6. Two Days After I Returned Home, I Received a Call (9:34)
   7. When I Began Studying with Roshi in 1978... (8:39)
   8. Last Night of the Last Retreat... (6:45)
   9. My Mother Was Mostly Absent in My Life... (7:26)

4. Disc 4

   1. Introduction (1:44)
   2. I Was Brough Up in a Culture That Lived Through WWII (8:20)
   3. Five Years After the News Leaked out... (10:52)
   4. I Drove Back to the Uptown Area in Minneapolis (10:57)
   5. While I Was in Minnesota (9:57)
   6. Several Years After My Divorce... (4:47)
   7. He Told Us When He Frist Came to San Francisco... (9:11)
   8. We've Had a Long Drought in New Mexico (8:54)
   9. Part 3: Ikkyu Wrote, "Wife, Daughters, Friends, This Is for You..." (9:56)

5. Disc 5

   1. Introduction (1:44)
   2. After Te-Shan Burned His Books... (2:90)
   3. Remember When Te-Shan Met the Old Tea-Cake Woman... (3:43)
   4. I Could No Longer Quite Trust Any Teacher... (6:42)
   5. In Late July, Every Time I Phoned... (12:13)
   6. Back at the Hotel Late That Night... (4:38)
   7. It Was a Beautiful Monday in August (10:49)
   8. My Mother, After a Lifetime of Good Health... (6:29)
   9. One Day, Te-Shan Decended to the Main Hall... (6:60)
   10. In May, Almost Three Years After... (9:90)
   11. Te-Shan's Disciple Ye-T'Ou Eventually Became... (5:18)
   12. Epilogue (11:14)

6. Disc 6

   1. Introduction (1:45)
   2. Writing "The Great Failure" (10:32)
   3. How Zen Koans Work on Us Like Dreams (8:51)
   4. Awakening Is Recognizing Mistake After Mistake (7:49)
   5. Unseen Realm (5:49)
   6. Serving the Dharma by Telling the Truth (5:13)
   7. Claiming Our Projections (6:43)
   8. Writing as a Visual Art (5:25)
   9. Lineage (4:28)