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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Forget Everything

The best way is to forget everything. Then your mind is calm and your mind always wide enough or clear enough to see things and to feel things as they are without any effort.

This excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture closely follows yesterday's from 66-11-30 and is titled Beyond Consciousness for the edited version in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p. 127. - Excerpt edited by DC