Living & Dying

Zen doesn’t look for immortality of the soul or eternal life in the Pure Land. Life and death are not two separate things, and we aren’t moving from life to death to perpetual life. Instead, we are living and at the same time dying. At every moment we are all life and all death. Our life is not a movement toward death but a continual process of living and dying.

Eternity

Today doesn’t bring us closer to eternity, because today, at this moment, eternity is completely manifesting itself. We are experiencing eternity today.

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Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit
Robert Kennedy