The Great Way Is Not Difficult

Zhaozhou taught, “’The great way isn’t difficult if you don’t pick and choose.’ As soon as I speak,
you’ll think, ‘That’s picking and choosing,’ or ‘That’s clear.’ But I don’t identify with clarity. Can you live like that?”
A student asked, “If you don’t identify with clarity, what do you live by?”
“I don’t know.”

If only you don't pick & choose
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Text September 13, 2021

The World Catches Us Every Time

John Tarrant

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Abiding Nowhere the Heart-Mind Comes Forth (MK65b), Peach Blossoms (MK37) (EV8)
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2014, articles, disorderly karmic consciousness, distraction, Lion's Roar, meditation, Miscellaneous Koan, not the wrong life, poet T.S. Eliot, the nature of mind
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Distraction can have a long arc, and until the end of the story, you can’t say what’s a distraction and what’s a calling.

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