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Keep Going

  • May 7
  • 1 min read

Practice is rooted in the big questions: who am I? Do I have a purpose? How do I take my place in a disastrous world? Suzuki Roshi’s “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” offers two metaphors of encouragement, Mind Weeds and the Four Horses. Whatever unwanted plants spring up in the mind, however trainable this particular animal, whether Zen practitioner or apprentice farmer, let life spring from the big questions, and keep going.


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