Zen is not some kind of
excitement, but concentration on
our usual everyday routine.
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set an example for others
The Higher Power
looks not only at our actions but
into our hearts to gauge our worthiness.
Through genuine inner modesty, acceptance,
and innocence you correct your own
errors and set an example
for others.
fifth changing line
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 63, Chi Chi / After Completion
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in the heart shrine
Lalla,
you’ve wandered
so many places trying to find
your husband! Now at last, inside the
walls of this body-house, in the
heart-shrine, you discover
where he lives.
wake up! don’t waste time
What
is the good
in clinging to slogans,
quotations, and formulas?
This is passing around stale bread.
Just shut the language door,
open your awareness,
and don’t look
back.
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I wouldn’t say
that in recent times those who
study the Way do not try hard, but they often
just memorize Zen stories and try to pass judgement on
the ancient and modern Zen masters, picking and choosing among
words and phrases, creating complicated rationalizations
and learning stale slogans. Will they ever be done
with this? If you study Zen like this, all you
will get is a worn out collection
of antiques and
curios.
one with the river and one with life
When you do not realize
that you are one with the river, or one
with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is
separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and
death are the same thing. When we realize this
fact we have no fear of death anymore,
and we have no actual
difficulty in life.