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Saturday, May 16, 2015

Forcing


As Zen master Dogen says, the teaching which does not sound like it's forcing something on you is not true teaching.

Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-09-16 as found on shunryusuzuki.com - Edited by DC    

[Now there's a quote to drive people away. He's talking about how we have a resistance to really accepting the truth that everything changes. - dc]