To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.
To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.
Dogen, Actualizing the Fundamental Point
When meeting things with attention the self drops away. In this short video listen to Lao di Zhi explain how attention became an experience of forgetting the self.
Study the self, forget the self
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