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Thursday, December 19, 2024

Enter Sincerely

For every one of us, the most important point should be our practice. As long as we enter the zendo, we should practice our zazen sincerely. And we should devote ourselves to beginner’s practice like counting breathing.

Summer 1970 - Alan Marlowe, Mel Weitsman, Shunryu Suzuki

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