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Illuminating Silence #1

Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

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The Importance of Practice

Xingyin says the more you know, the more things can cause you distress. We need to cultivate the art of putting aside our memories and intellectual knowledge. He turns to this poem by Wong Ming, calming the mind. Too much knowledge leads to overactivity. Better to calm the mind. The more you consider the greater the loss, better to unify the mind.

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