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LET'S TRY IT!
219 insight he has set out to attain."1 First gain satori —"There! It's out!”-then look back at the goose and the bottle.
But this is not an armchair job. To raise a car above your head is child's play compared with raising your consciousness one inch. "Nature," it has been said, "spews the lukewarm from her mouth," and there is nothing lukewarm in Zen. The will is the man, and Zen appeals to it. Life may be a Wheel of Becoming, a chain of causation. Leap from the Wheel, break the chain; take manifestation in your two bare hands and make of it what you will. Strangely enough, manifestation will be delighted to find such a real Man in the many-millioned rabbit-farm we call the world. The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by storm, even though the great strength which returns the penny is an artful letting go, an acceptance of all things for what they are. In any event, be utterly whole-hearted. Make Zen your work and play, your love, your hate, your everything. Said D. H. Lawrence:
“There is no point in work
unless it absorbs you
like an absorbing game. “If it doesn't absorb you
if it's never any fun, don't do it.”
The same applies to Zen. Adopt it, live it, love it, become it; let it flow through the veins as cosmic fire, caring not what it is, nor whence it comes, but using it with every breath and offering it again to the world. Is all this cold, unlit with the light of love which radiates 1 The Secret of the Golden Flower, p. 94.
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