Dharma Talk: Old Age, Sickness and Death by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Sensei:
"What happens when your leg hurts in zazen? If you really see it clearly, it’s not a big deal. But usually, we hate that pain and we want it to go away, but that doesn’t help. Dogen says, “Only when we don’t hate life and death or desire Nirvana will we enter the mind of Buddha.” Only! That’s it. He’s unequivocal about this. Only when we don’t hate is it going to be possible to enter the mind of Buddha. In order to do that, we can’t stand back from it, we can’t define or describe it. Because when we do, it still hurts, we still end up hating it. To be precise, that’s how we hate it, by separating from what we’re feeling."
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