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• It’s that kind of attention which is necessary for our Zen practice. We call it samadhi, this total oneness with the object. But
• So the crux of zazen is this: all we must do is constantly to create a little shift from the spinning world we’ve got in our heads to right-here-now. That’s our practice. The intensity and ability to be right-here-now is what we have to develop.
• There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.
• Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don’t want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.
• We don’t like to think of ourselves as just physical beings; yet the whole transformation of sitting is physical.