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What Zen Is About

I found this little gem in one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s books. I was reading this on the beach today, and the full force of what I’m practicing hit me with the utmost simplicity and clarity.

As one old zen saying puts it: “Before practicing Zen, rivers were rivers and mountains were mountains. When I practiced Zen, I saw that rivers were no longer rivers and mountains no longer mountains. Now I see that rivers are again rivers and mountains are again mountains”


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