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Recorded Sayings of Master Joshu No. 73

We can often catch ourselves with the attitude that our practice is only ‘true’ when all the mess of our busy minds is cleared away. Even though we ‘know’ that our practice should be all-embracing, there is often the feeling that one needs to paddle hard in order to cross to the other shore. And even though we ‘know’ our practice should be all-embracing, there is often the conflicting feeling that one needs to drop that feeling of needing to paddle hard! This video discusses the way out of such self-spinning loops through an engaged concern for all beings in this moment, the true way to save this being. Not sometime in the future, but now

Adapted from Kusen given on 5th May 2020