and/both

a beautiful reminder of the practice of and / both, not either or. this practice has been a profound one over the course of my becoming. and this morning’s reading served as another remembering ♥️ and maybe it’s meant to land with you too ✨ 

“It is easy to get attached to any insight we have, especially if it is a profound one, but to be truly free, we must also let go of even our most precious realizations. We must be able to see that we have realized and attained nothing at all; only then can we approach the moment with a truly fresh, open, always empty-of-essence and full-of-everything mind. 

Our buddhanature is impersonal, empty and full, timeless and boundless, not created and not destroyed, not born and undying, free from all attachment and suffering. Our human nature is personal and limited, it is born, gets ill, gets old, gets attached, suffers, and dies. In Zen, a deeper liberation comes when we learn to appreciate both natures without preference. 

We’re not only Buddhas fully free from attachment and suffering—we’re also humans fully free to get attached, to experience personal love, and to suffer. What great freedom is this! “ -Santiago Santai Jiménez, Colombian Zen Monk

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