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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness by Shunryu Suzuki — WisdomDeck honest review
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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness

by Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's lectures on the Sandokai, a classic Zen poem on the one and the many. Deeper and more demanding than his other books.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Oneness and difference interpenetrate.
  2. Practice includes everything.
  3. Light and dark are not two.

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Read the poem, then one lecture.

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Advanced Suzuki.

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