Student: Docho Roshi, we can succeed in directing our effort inside. How can there be anything outside our effort?
SR: There is no inside or outside. We say our effort should be directed towards the inside, but we say it to suggest to you the direction. One arrow will get through past, present, and future: the three worlds. And the arrow will continuously go forward. Don't think the arrow is always going outward. To go outward, one thousand miles means to go back one thousand miles. So don't think there is outside or inside in our practice.
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