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Sitzfleisch,’ Professor Playfair said pleasantly when Ramy protested that they had over forty hours of reading a week. ‘Translated literally, it means “sitting meat”. Which all goes to say, sometimes you need simply to sit on your bottom and get things done.’
A student said he had disturbing images and thoughts during zazen. Suzuki said, “Whatever bird flies through the sky, the sky doesn’t care.”
Zen Is Right Now
Shunryu Suzuki and David Chadwick
They realized that if indeed a man’s great Darwinian peril is cuckoldry, and a woman’s is desertion, then male and female jealousy should differ.21 Male jealousy should focus on sexual infidelity, and males should be quite unforgiving of it; a female, though she’ll hardly applaud a partner’s extracurricular activities, since they consume time and divert resources, should be more concerned with emotional infidelity—the sort of magnetic commitment to another woman that could eventually lead to a much larger diversion of resources.
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
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