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Working with the Urge to Consume

Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

CHAPTER

The Fisherman

We all have this deep abiding desire for fulfilling life, for completion. But we keep looking in the wrong place. And continues, I have an old book that I used to pour over many years ago. It's so old it was photocopied and is hardly holding together. By an English philosopher who called himself way woo way for whatever reason. He wrote that 99.4% of our problems come from a concern for the self. And there isn't any self. Our true self is no self. There's no giver and no receiver. And we're giving, there's just, just the giving.

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