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Ep. 78 - Nachiketa and the Lord of Death

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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Zen Zen - I Am Nothing and Everything, I Am Interwoven Into All of Life

Nachi-K to saw, I am nothing and everything. I am interwoven into all of life. Zen masters last, they write their little poems and then they sit up and die,. Two little death poems. Empty handed I entered the world, barefoot I leave it; two simple happenings that got entangled. Or Taeu and others and Master, though I should live to be a hundred, the same world, the same cherry blossoms. And so you become blessed in whatever form your initiation takes you. As Mary Oliver said, I never asked for understanding. I asked for wonder. It's a journey back to the mystery in the present," says Nachik

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