When our sense of ourselves shifts toward Being, we move beyond our reactivity to impermanence. Not only that, but just as I did after my heart attack, we become aware of something beyond impermanence: the permanent source from which life springs. Suzuki Roshi wrote, “To live . . . means to die as a small being moment after moment.” What he meant is the self is not a separate static thing but a process, or actually a network of interconnected processes. When we realize this, we see that there is always an opportunity to respond to a situation creatively. Nothing is holding us back from change
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