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What is most crucial is to remember to pursue the way of the self selflessly, not for any profit. Because we concretely are universal self, there is no particular value in talking about it. Yet if we don’t make every effort to manifest it, just knowing about it is useless. To concretize the eternal, that is the task before us. Even if we have a cup of cool, clean water sitting right in front of us, if we don’t actually drink it, it won’t slake our thirst. The expression of universal self is a practice that is eternal, but to the extent that we don’t walk it ourselves, it won’t be realized, it ...more
Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
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