The first step in practice is to realize that we have erected this superstructure. And as we do zazen (particularly as we label our thoughts) we begin to recognize that we’re almost never just living our life as it is. Our lives are lost in our self-centered thoughts, the superstructure. (We are presuming that we want to see through this superstructure. Some people simply don’t. And that’s OK too. Not everyone should be doing a practice like Zen. It’s demanding, it’s disillusioning. It can seem forbidding when we are new to it. That’s just one side of it. The other side is that life becomes
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