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Expand the opposites to ultimates of time and space, of ultimate form and ultimate life itself. ... Now come back with a bump to your neighbour's faults about which you have so long and bitterly complained. Can you not understand his 'sin', his crime, his foolishness, you that are so tolerant of your own? Can you not see the muddled wants and hopes and fears within his mind, and the consequent foolish actions of this fellow infinitesimal speck of the infinite All-mind?
(6) Stop rushing about. You are always here and it is always now and you are always concerned with this. "Be still and know that I am God.” Who is? This, here and now; there is no other, within or without the Universe. Learn to feel the divine occasion of our dust". Waste nothing, not even the dust. Aim at the "right" use of everything.
(7) Relax. Don't strain, for nothing is worth the while. There is nothing to be found, so why this effort to find it? Sit loose to life, for it flows about you, and if you are wise, you are happily flowing too. Just drop it, whatever it is that is worrying you, and go on dropping it. Laugh and laugh still more; if you cannot, find out why.
(8) Walk on!
Such is a book about Zen. Of the truth which is Zen and even of the occult arts and sciences which remain unwritten in the hands of the Masters of Zen, it may be repeated, “He who knows, does not speak; he who speaks does not know."
Light your own lamp.
