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Over on the Dao Bums forum site, Tommy commented:
I live and breathe. Wake up in the morning, cook myself a meal, boil water for coffee. What life is, is in front of me. When I read the saying “before enlightenment, chop wood carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood carry water”, the question arises, what changed?
The saying Tommy quoted ...
“A Natural Mindfulness”, is now available to purchase as a paperback, from Amazon:
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Anthropic’s AI “Claude” made a summary for the back cover:
Mark Foote bridges ancient wisdom ...
I have a neighbor who is interested in sitting with me. He has never practiced any kind of meditation before, apart from a failed attempt to sit cross-legged with me over a year ago.
This time around, I will offer him a chair.
I find myself wondering what advice, if any, I should give him. The advice most zendos give beginners is to “follow ...