Quietly explore the nearest and farthest implications of these causes and conditions. In the twenty-second verse of the thirty verses by Vasubandhu, he says, it says that a dependent self nature

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is a thought that has arisen depending on conditions. And in the verse before that, verse seventeen, Vasubandhu said that because thought involves transformations, thought is really just concept. So, a dependent self nature is a concept that has arisen depending on conditions. When a

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of ideas of self, freed of attribution of substance, it is the accomplished, it is non-discriminating wisdom. Actually, what's appearing before us, moment by moment, our birth, our sixth sickness, our pain, our growing older, as it actually appears, as it actually comes to be before us, or as our life, it actually is free of all of our concepts of substance.

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So, in some sense, our Zazen practice is just simply, unhesitatingly, without any resistance, just being what is coming, just letting it be, moment by moment. All we need is to be completely absorbed in what happens moment by moment.

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Sometimes calm and relaxed. Sometimes seething with emotions, complications, trouble and anxiety. When those things appear, that's all you need. They arise by causes and conditions. And if you can let that be, then these things are happening.

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Free of all your erroneous imaginations. All right. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you. is seething. There is great pain. Somehow, it has turned cold. The blue mountains grow more vast and more blue. The autumn waterfalls are louder.

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I take my cane and go out the gate for a walk. I can hear the last crickets singing in the chilly evening. I am happy. The rays of the setting sun shine through the evening smoke that hovers over our village. I throw back my head, drunk with beauty, and sing the willow song at the top of my lungs. By the kindness of the Buddhist ancestors, the teaching of suchness has been intimately

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communicated. Now you have it. Please take care of it. If you can take care of it, moment by moment, and achieve some continuity. This is called the teacher within the teacher. This is called the teacher within the teacher.

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