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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Taisen Deshimaru on the Middle Way

Taisen Deshimaru (1914 -1982) Sōtō Zen Sensei

"Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance."

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