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JUNE 4, 1988: It’s forty minutes into the forty-five-minute sitting before lunch—and my back is killing me. I slide forward on the little cushion I’m using as a zafu and my sit bones slip onto the mat, but my tailbone remains on the
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“He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“We push ourselves to get a better position at work. We exercise, take enriching courses of study, meditate, make lists, volunteer, take workshops. Certainly any of these activities can be undertaken in a wholesome way, but so often they are driven by anxious undercurrents of “not good enough.”
― Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
― Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
Andres Canella’s 2025 Year in Books
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