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“Our life and death are the same thing.\u00a0 When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I went to Yosemite National Park, and I saw some huge waterfalls.\u00a0\u00a0 The highest one there is 1,340 feet high, and from it the water comes down like a curtain thrown from the top of the mountain.\u00a0 It does not seem to come down swiftly, as you might expect; it seems to come down very slowly because of the distance.\u00a0 And the water does not come down as one stream, but is separated into many tiny streams.\u00a0 From a distance it looks like a curtain.\u00a0 And I thought it must be a very difficult experience for each drop of water to come down from the top of such a high mountain.\u00a0 It takes time, you know, a long time, for the water finally to reach the bottom of the waterfall.\u00a0 And it seems to me that our human life may be like this.\u00a0 We have many difficult experiences in our life.\u00a0 But at the same time, I thought, the water was not originally separated, but was one whole river.\u00a0 Only when it is separated does it have some difficulty in falling.\u00a0 It is as if the water does not have any feeling when it is one whole river.\u00a0 Only when separated into many drops can it begin to have or to express some feeing.\u00a0 When we see one whole river we do not feel the living activity of the water.\u00a0 Feeling ourselves and the water in this way, we cannot use it in just material ways.\u00a0 It is a living thing.<\/h2>\n

Extract from <\/em>Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind<\/span><\/p>\n

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