“The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.”
Francis Harold Cook
How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
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