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Cultivating Awareness in Daily Life
The chapter explores the process of developing awareness through stages like discovery, amplification, circulation, and active engagement in daily activities. It includes personal anecdotes illustrating moments of heightened awareness, such as intuitive cooking decisions and lessons in humility through mistakes. Additionally, it discusses stories of individuals breaking societal norms to pursue spiritual practice and the establishment of the Shogaku Zen Institute to train Zen students in integrating awareness into helping others.