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Zen leaf
Folha Zen, tinta da china em papel, 2007
Desenho de Luís de Barreiros Tavares
Colecção: Milá (Maria dos Milagres)
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Just a swinging door
"When we practise zazen our mind always follows our breathing. When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say 'inner world' or 'outer world', but actually there is just one whole world. In this limitless world, our throat is like a swinging door. If you think, 'I breathe', the 'I' is extra. There is no you to say 'I'. What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no 'I', no world, no mind or body; just a swinging door."
Shunryu Suzuki (1905-71)
in: Anne Bancroft, ZEN,Direct pointing to reality,London,Thames and Hudson,1987,p.27.
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