It’s all a matter of putting first things first, of never losing touch with THIS. When as a person I aim directly to be out in front and involved in life and truly with it, I am in fact alienated from life, up against it, ultimately its victim. Whereas when my aim is indirect - via the perceived Absence here of that person seeking involvement - why then I’m not just out in the world, not just with it: I’m relishing the experience of being it. I’m at large, world-asserting, enlightened (as Zen master Dogen so delightfully puts it) by all beings. Enlightened by what they seem to be, as well as
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