Avoiding Foxes and Dogs

Originally appeared January 2008

The basic essential nature inherent in all people is clearly evident when you constantly perceive it within yourself; if you pursue external objects, then it becomes obscured; you get confused and are not awake.

Occasionally, readers write that they have difficulty understanding some of the journals and seem a bit perplexed about what to do when they hit something they don’t immediately get. What I like about this selection is that Yuan-hsien hands us some very concrete directions about “looking into a saying.”

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