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Children totally accept —and crave—family rules. “In our family we have a rule for X” is the only excuse a parent needs for setting a family policy. In fact, “I have a rule for X” is the only excuse you need for your own personal policies.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort. This is how we practice Zen.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
I had heard that sesshin retreats were the heart of Zen training. The word—ses-shin—literally meant “encountering or touching the heart.” Natalie explained that in Japanese the word shin meant both “heart” and “mind.” That right there was the difference between East and West, she said. We cut off the heart from the mind. Not so the East. And according to Zen, our true heart-mind was infinite, knowing no bounds or limits, and included everything.
One Blade of Grass
Henry Shukman
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