Quote from Zen Essence

Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom

by Thomas F. Cleary

Shambhala Publishing, Boston, Massachusetts      © 2000      136 pp.

The Normal Mind

The Way does not require cultivation--just don't pollute it. What is pollution? As long as you have a fluctuating mind fabricating artificialities and contrivances, all of this is pollution. If you want to understand the Way directly, the normal mind is the Way. What I mean by the normal mind is the mind without artificialities, without subjective judgements, without grasping or rejection.  -- Zen Master Mazu  (p. 1)

-- submitted by Jennifer Knight


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