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to avoid our suffering rather than go deeper into seeing what is there?
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel • Opening to Darkness: Eight Gateways for Being with the Absence of Light in Unsettling Times
Here are some rules of thumb that might help you navigate whatever practice you are trying out.
- Criticizing, judging, or assessing yourself isn’t virtue. It doesn’t help in meditation; it’s just more noise. And if you are criticizing, judging, or assessing yourself, don’t criticize that, and so on, until you wear out and compassion enters.
- Criticizin
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We all come to practice looking for techniques that will relieve our suffering. We all come looking for answers to our questions. But though practice can transform our lives, it does not do so by providing us with those techniques or answers we think we need.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
Koans just take away the painful beliefs and so provide freedom. What you do with that freedom is up to you.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
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Everything is always becoming otherwise.
Maybe that is what this path is all about not falling in love, but learning to be able to love
-Brian LESAGE
From all causes there is a result. We live in our ordinary life as if we have the power to prevent the natural result of our actions and the actions of others. Life doesn't work like
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