Dharma Discourse: Where Is the Barrier by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Sensei:
More on Looking outside myself: ( To study the self is to forget the self.)
"When there's no way to divide inside and outside, at that moment, who is speaking and not speaking, hearing and not hearing. At that moment, what barrier is there? Can you find it? At that moment, it's dissolved. Not dissolved. Do you see? There is nothing to be given to people. There is nothing to be extinguished, and because of this, we practice. We train the mind and body to realize that which cannot be given, that which can't be gained and can't be lost. Because it's only in that kind of knowing that change takes place. It's there that the truth of every moment can freely manifest itself because there's nothing to bind or constrict it. We are no longer opposing that truth, which is what our delusions and attachments do. That's why attachments are so exhausting. It's like swimming upstream. If attachments were based in reality, then the more attached you were to things, the easier things should be. "
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