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Tozan’s Five Seasons: Three—Letting Go of the Handlebars

Oct 29, 2025
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The promise of the third season is whole-hearted practice without an agenda. The third season describes moments of kensho, when we deeply realize the emptiness beyond self. In the bicycle metaphor, it is the moment when we take the hands off the handlebars and know that we keep going. No choreography, no separate self, no words.


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