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Practice Off the Mat

Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

CHAPTER

The Four Vowels of Life

When there's something within you that moves in the right direction, it creates its own discipline. As the life of awareness settles on your darkness, whatever is evil will disappear. You will have to experience that for yourself. There's nothing so important in the world as awakening, nothing. We'll stop here and recite the four vows. Let me instead close with a quote from Henry Moore who is a well-known sculptor. He said, the secret of life is to have a task. Something you bring everything to every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

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