Well, there is the absolute point of view and the relative point of view. From the relative point of view we have a history. Much has happened to each one of us, and we are as we are at least partly because of our history. But in another sense we have no history. Zen practice is to see through our desire to cling to our history and to reasons (thoughts) for why we are as we are, instead of working with the reality of what we are. There are many kinds of therapy. But any therapy that leads you to feel that your life is terrible because of what someone did to you is at least incomplete, because
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