I like to say that we radically and thoroughly accept all things "just as they are" ... and yet, some thing, we do not. Accepting thoroughly, yet not accepting, as if seeing the world two ways at once out of two eyes (maybe that third eye too
), with all eyes open at once offering clarity.
So, if one has cancer ... accept it thoroughly and completely without resistance, letting the cancer just be the cancer ...
... and also, sit Zazen beyond all cancer or no cancer, dropping all thoughts of sickness vs. health, life and death ... sitting in a place of wholeness beyond all cancer or no cancer, death or no death ...
... then do NOT accept one's cancer, give it the good fight, sometimes be sad or afraid, and take one's radiation or chemo ...
ALL AT ONCE, AS ONE.
Gassho, J
STLah
PS - This is not unrelated to the essay I posted elsewhere today:
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Conclusion%29