May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.
The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it __as no patience with mysticism, far less the occult._ Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we would impose on the world, obscuring it from our view. It asks, it insists rather, that we take this moment for what it is, undistracted, and not cloud it with needless worries of what might have been or fantasies of what might come to be. It is, essentially, a training in the real__he Universe itself is the scripture of Zen." Pico Iyer from introduction.
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The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it __as no patience with mysticism, far less the occult._ Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we would impose on the world, obscuring it from our view. It asks, it insists rather, that we take this moment for what it is, undistracted, and not cloud it with needless worries of what might have been or fantasies of what might come to be. It is, essentially, a training in the real__he Universe itself is the scripture of Zen." Pico Iyer from introduction.
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