"What is the most miraculous of all miracles?"
"That I sit quietly by myself."
Simply to see things as they are, as they truly are in themselves, is life enough.
Zen often wears the air of divine ordinariness: "Have you eaten? Then wash your bowls." If you cannot find the meaning of life in an act as simple as doing the dishes, you will not find it anywhere.
Asked what Zen training leads to, a Western student who had been practicing for seven years in Kyoto answered, "No paranormal experiences that I can detect. But you wake up in the morning and the world seems so beautiful and you can hardly stand it. "
//Side note, that reminds me of "American Beauty".
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