A Quote by Roshi Philip Kapleau

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"The seeker who does not find is still entrapped by his illusion of two

worlds: one of perfection that lies beyond, of peace without struggle *, of

unending joy; the other the everyday meaningless world of pain and evil

which is scarcely worth relating himself to. Secretly he longs for the

former even as he openly despises the latter. Yet he hesitates to plunge

into the teeming Void, into the abyss of his own Primal-nature, because in

his deepest unconscious he fears abandoning his familiar world of duality

for the unknown world of Oneness, the reality of which he still doubts.

The finders, on the other hand, are restrained by neither fears nor doubts.

Casting both aside, they leap because they can't do otherwise--they simply

must and no longer know why--and so they triumph."

 

* "Peace of mind is not absence of struggle but absence of uncertainty and

confusion." From an article on "Yoga and Christian Spiritual Techniques"

by Anthony Bloom.

 

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