We continue to Chapter 2, The Meaning of Zazen ...
Some suggested themes (please ignore or bring up anything else you might wish):
By what comparisons do you define yourself (literally, define your "self")?
What would life be like if you dropped the comparisons?
Granted, we cannot drop all the comparisons and function in this daily world (the Social Services would certainly be at my door if I suddenly forgot the category "parent" to my "child"), so can we perhaps learn to drop the comparisons even with and amid the comparisons? Perhaps keep the comparisons for functional purposes, but not be so tightly bound and tied by them?
Gassho, J
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