
Skillful Effort, Skillful Concentration
Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)
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The Power of Observation
When the mind quiets down, we can breathe more deeply and the oxygen intake goes up. We burn with a cleaner flame and our action comes out of that flame. When the fire gets hot enough, there is no self because now the fire is consuming everything. There is no separation between self and other. It's not some miraculous thing that happens in our head. What does work is noticing our mental aberrations, which are not true thinking.We observe our emotional thoughts, quote, yeah, I really can't stand her. She's a terrible person. We just notice, notice, notice. Then the breathing deepens and when the fire really burns, there's nothing it can
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