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Live. For Now. For the time being.

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In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that?Anyway, I've...more

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Jiko: "Surfer, wave, same thing.""That's just stupid, " I said. " A surfer's a person. A wave is a wave. How can they be the same?"Jiko looked out acr...more

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I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me somethi...more

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I write this in the moonlight, straining my ears to hear beyond the cold mechanical clock to the warm biological noises of the night, but my being is ...more

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(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish o...more

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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate her...more

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Somewhere Dōgen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don’t remember the exact figure, only that it was large and seemed quite ...more

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To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget...more