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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Miserable Understanding

When we say causality, it looks like a kind of view of life like determinism. You will believe in a fate before you are born. But that kind of view of life is based on a mechanical, material, poor, miserable understanding of life. Actually, such a thing does not exist. There is no reason why we should be chained or we should be bound by such an illusion of time or space.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-08-19-C as found on shunryusuzuki.comCopy and paste the name into the search box there to get to the transcript.. Edited by DC - Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. - Go to cuke.com What's New [now at blogger] to see more daily posts.