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Soundboard recording of the Grateful Dead at the Strand Lyceum in London, during their Europe 1972 tour...
Soundboard recording of the Grateful Dead at the Strand Lyceum in London, during their Europe 1972 tour...







![Buddha Nature ☮ Wisdom of the Dharma
The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing. ~ Shunryu Suzuki.
This music is Feeling the River Flow by Dean Evenson. Principal photography with wisdom quotes courtesy of Bob OHearn, from his website:
http://www.pbase.com/1heart/words
Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when youve got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.
~Hsu Yun
When we practice zazen [meditation], all that exists is the movement of the breathing, but we are aware of this movement. You should not be absent-minded. But to be aware of the movement does not mean to be aware of your small self, but rather of your universal nature, or Buddha nature. This kind of awareness is very important, because we are usually so one-sided. Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves the awareness of the universal existence. You means to be aware of the universe in the form of you, and I means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors..
~Shunryu Suzuki
Even when the light begins to dawn in zazen, we dont get attached to that either. If you start to see what the world is really made up of, if it comes apart in tiny glowing, luminous pieces for you, dont be attached to that either. Its important to just keep walking. It doesnt matter where youre at in the way if youre at the beginning or far along the instructions are the same: Keep walking with an open heart while the wonder comes over you.
~John Tarrant Buddha Nature ☮ Wisdom of the Dharma](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E8ba7EmVUCw/mqdefault.jpg)


