The tangerine Nandabala offered me had nine segments. I ate each morsel, in awareness, and saw how precious and wonderful it was. I did not forget the tangerine, and thus the tangerine became something very real to me. If the tangerine is real, the person eating it is real. That is what it means to eat a tangerine in awareness.5 Millions of us climb stairs everyday and yet if you ask them how many stairs they climbed, they wouldn’t have a clue. This is just about how mindful we are. Zen is breaking the automaticity of our actions and infusing them with mindfulness. Everything we do then
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