Good Advice For Serious Practitioners Of Anything--Religion, Art, Sport, Etc.

[daurdabla]

"Do not say that worldly affairs and pressures of business leave you no time to study Zen ... Suppose a man accidentally drops two or three gold coins in a crowded street swarming with people. Does he forget about the money because all eyes are upon him? Does he stop looking for it because it will cause a disturbance? Most people will push

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[helwen]

Excellent quote! I think I need to post that a couple of places :) Thanks!

[daurdabla]

You're welcome. Turns out this is actually a contraction of a longer one, which is below, in case you want the whole works. I like the shorter one better, myself; it's punchier. Of course, I'm also an early-twenty-first-century American, which means I generally have an attention span about equivalent to the half-life of oxygen-19...

I saw the shorter one many years ago, but lost the reference and have been looking for it ever since. Finally found it (yay for teh Intarwebz!) and figured if I post it here I won't lose it (yay for teh Intarwebz!) and can share it with friends, too (yay for teh Intarwebz!).