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Shinzen Young, a Vipassana teacher I studied with online, describes this as “learning to live as the wave, instead of the particle.”
Elena Nezhinsky • Buddha on a Bull: A Practical Approach to Enlightenment (Complete Humanity Series Book 1)
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things:
everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
Jane Hirshfield • Passages Saved From iOS
Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (“This shouldn’t be happening!”), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process. There is a very down-to-earth kind of liberation in... See more