“As a Zen Student you are challenged to find this intimacy in the ordinary, work-a-day, confrontive society you live in. How can you see with another’s eyes, or hear with another’s ears, across space and time or even face to face at the post office? If you steadfastly breathe “Mu” right through all feelings of anxiety when you are on your cushion, and if you ignore distractions and devote yourself to the matter at hand on other occasions, you will be like Pu-tang (Fudo) holding fast in the flames of hell. Those flames are the distressing aspects of your life, and in persevering you will surely enter the original realm.
Robert Aitken, The Gateless Gate.
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