Zen offers no miracles
Zen offers no miracle to save your life at the last moment, but it can give you equanimity at all times. Just train yourselves in meditation to shut off both your subjectivity and your objectivity. Then you can shut off your subjectivity and melt into your objectivity, or shut off your objectivity and live in your subjectivity. When you can open both your subjectivity and your objectivity; carrying your day’s work smoothly and happily, you will be living in Zen. The teaching of Buddha is too simple, so people hesitate to practice it.
- Buddhism and Zen by Nyogen Senzaki (via Zen Stains)
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