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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Don't Even Try

Don't-- don't even try to clear up your mind, even though you have something there. Don't want to be pure. If you want to be pure, it means you have attached to pureness -- purity. That is also not so good. Don't attach to purity or impurity.

 Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-29-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com - Edited by DC 
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