禅Taizan Maezumi

proverb

Appreciate Your Life

Modern

Traditionally attributed

Text

Appreciate your life — this very life, with its fatigue, its mistakes, its small kindnesses. The Buddha did not promise a different life; only this one fully met.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

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Attribution

Lineage: Sōtō

By Taizan Maezumi

Sources

  • contentThe Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training

    John Daido Loori

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