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Written by bodhidave on 2025-01-14 at 04:54

Though perhaps a little odd-sounding, in tonight's #meditation the profoundly matter-of-fact sense for me was that #Zen is about getting where you are.

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Written by Pork Chop :bookit: on 2025-01-14 at 08:33

@bodhidave you inspired me to pull up this note I wrote a couple years ago and publish it

https://blog.chadobear.world/post/2025/01/13/put-yourself-where-you-are.html

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Written by bodhidave on 2025-01-15 at 01:26

@chad

nice

I've studied and practiced contemplative traditions rather intensively for a long time.

And it seems to me the heart of those traditions and their practice is something both profoundly elusive and profoundly simple:

the utter wonder that anything at all is happening.

And a best way to realize, and honor, and appreciate that, is, as Zen teacher Mazu put it, to just "not contrive."

It's always already this — before we have a plan, a theology, or even any thought-up concepts.

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