"The “practice” at the Zen Center of Syracuse is a lay practice. It is founded on the simple understanding that if Buddhist practice cannot help ordinary people live ordinary lives more completely, then it is not much good for anything. One should not have to become a special case or live in extraordinary circumstances in order to grasp the fundamentals. Zen emphasizes ordinary day-to-day things because when we grasp the essential emptiness in the least thing we simultaneously apprehend it in the universe."
- Terrance Keenan’s “St. Nadie in Winter” (also from Slow Muse, more excerpts from that book here) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
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