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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Don't Hesitate

I remembered Suzuki Roshi's advice: When the bell rings, get up. Moving forward, clumsily climbing out of the covers, I got up. I reached into the blackness and found the clock, fumbled with it and turned it off. ----------------Shunryu Suzuki quoted in Thank You &OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. [Awake in the Dark] Gonna run through these which are all listed here