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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Somethingness

All that we do or all that we think is not absolute itself. So there is no reason why we should attach to it. The only thing we should observe is as a absolute is emptiness, which is the absolute in its true sense, which is quite different from somethingness, you know [laughs].  -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC