Zen is the taste of your own tongue in your own mouth. It’s a way to find something very simple that’s already present within you — a subtler, sharper, non-distanced, and non-distancing awareness.
Everything else emerges from this intimacy with your own life, this opening into attention. We become the instruments of our lives and become part of the orchestra of the larger existences that our lives in turn are part of.
Jane Hirshfield, American Poet, 1953 –
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