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The Translucence of Life

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The thickets in the mind are not so thorny and difficult, and they themselves become doors. We didn’t do anything clever, we just stopped tangling ourselves up. Even six hours at the DMV can drop away. Complete Sunday Zen from June 4, 2023, with music from Michael Wilding & Jordan McConnell.

Summary

Meditation doesn’t add anything to life, it does have a magical property of subtraction so that you feel welcome in the world and can welcome others.

John Tarrant Roshi

The thickets in the mind are not so thorny and difficult, and they themselves become doors. We didn’t do anything clever, we just stopped tangling ourselves up.

I spent six hours in the Santa Rosa DMV last Wednesday and even the lunatic quality of the bureaucracy is a doorway.

Even the stones and hills have their own light.

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