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Oxherding Picture 5: Training. Trusting. Patient.

  • Apr 10, 2025
  • 1 min read

In this very moment, how am I being asked to grow? To be wholehearted in Zen practice means to give up any expectation of reward. To be sincere means to relinquish all evaluations and judgments about the path. But what we perceive as a bitter pill is often a kind and outstretched hand.


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