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How to Live Like a Zen Master

Lessons from Spiritual Adepts from Various Traditions Tell Us the Same Thing: Cultivate the Eyes of the Child

In the seventh century, Hung Jen, the fifth patriarch of Chinese Zen Buddhism, neared death. In order to choose a successor, he asked each monk to compose a verse that testified to the monk’s Zen insight and post it on the wall…