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… “dropping body-mind” … … “forgetting the self” … … sounds really tricky to “do”. Maybe.it is! But so’s bicycle riding, swimming or tightrope walking if you try to explain these in words to someone who never has! (By the way, ‘just sitting’ Shikantaza, like riding a bike, is the most ordinary thing. Nothing special.…

.. you, me & tea __________________________ To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop…

. To “forget the self‘ is to be as an unborn child. A moment of Zazen is as if returned to a womb never departed, as a life without thought of its separate self. The unborn one, when very newly conceived, cannot ask where child begins or parent begins. It does not ask a reason…

. For Zen Master Hamlet, this need not be the question … . __________________________ To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well…
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