You
don’t escape from your delusions in zazen. Instead, you look straight
at them, since you have to work with them. This is the paradox. You
never enter a promised paradise in which there will be no delusion. But
all your delusions are workable. If they weren’t, I think we’d all go
mad.
Jakusho Kwong-roshi, “Emptying into Spaciousness”
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A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Work With What’s There
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