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Monday, July 15, 2019

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If you are enlightened, you are one with the whole universe, and the whole universe is telling the truth to the whole universe, to everything, or the whole universe is revealing itself through every being. What is happening is the activity of big, one being, which is called Buddha. This his how we should understand the Lotus Sutra. [DC comment - well, not really a being but for now we'll call it that. ] -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-E as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC