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Jul

Excerpt from Section 235, On Emptiness

   Posted by: Peter   in Uncategorized

From The Miscellany of a Japanese Priest (Being a Translation of Tsure-zure Gusa):

Idle fancies come floating into our hearts just as they will; is it not because we have nothing which can rightly be called a heart? For if within the breast the heart were already occupied, none of these unruly thoughts could find room therein.

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