Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Other Shore Is This Very Shore


Our ideas of enlightenment often involve waking up into some special, heavenly realm, but Zen masters teach us that this ordinary world is all we’ve got.

Konrad Ryushin Marchaj explains that as our practice deepens, we simply get closer to this body, this breath, the sound of rain, the flower by the roadside.

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