{"id":633,"date":"2009-04-13T10:41:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T10:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/04\/working-the-other-way-too.html"},"modified":"2009-04-13T10:41:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T10:41:50","slug":"working-the-other-way-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/04\/working-the-other-way-too.html","title":{"rendered":"Making the Buddha’s Wisdom Real …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last time we saw how a moment of Zazen –is–Buddha sitting, makes all the world right, just the way everything should be.   <\/p>\n

But it is not so simple as just saying that, for it must also work the other way … and one must actually get free of body and mind, dropping judgments and harmful views, and thus realizing the Buddha-Dharma.  <\/p>\n

Furthermore, one must thereafter rise from the cushion and live, as one can, by the Wisdom gained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

All go hand in hand.  That is what makes it a (non-)self fulfiling prophesy. <\/p>\n

Let me try to explain in today’s talk … <\/p>\n

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