“We do not have to die in order to return to dust, we are the dust in this very moment. When you see the no-increasing, no-decreasing nature of reality, you will have no more fear, no more complexes. There is an old proverb that says:
Be humble; you are made of dust
Be noble; you are made of stars
But the stars are also made of dust, and dust is made of ancient stars. There is the nature of interbeing between dust and stars. So nobility and humility must also have the nature of interbeing. Looking at the one, you can recognize the other.”
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The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries
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