It’s as if when you were born and you heard that from now on throughout you whole life you will have to continue breathing every minute, you think ‘Why can’t I just have one big breath and be done with it?’ It is ridiculous.
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, referring to practitioners who anticipate results or experiences à la sudden enlightenment. From “Zazen That Amounts to Nothing” in the Spring 2011 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly. (via sharanam)
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