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The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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judgments (this is better thanthat), evaluations (this meansthis about me), or significances(this is more important than that)dissolve.This beautiful realization thateverything is consciousness orBuddha nature flattens everything.Like:<strong>The</strong> wind blows for nobody specialor:<strong>The</strong> sun shines for nobody special.A student asked, “What role doesGod have in our practice?”<strong>The</strong> Master said, “None.”<strong>The</strong> student asked, “What aboutGrace?”<strong>The</strong> Master replied, “<strong>The</strong> east windbrings s<strong>of</strong>t showers.”All that appears, appears as onewhole nature which is made <strong>of</strong>consciousness or Buddha nature.<strong>The</strong> sense <strong>of</strong> a separate self or“I” is intrinsic to the nature<strong>of</strong> the body, like greenness isintrinsic to grass, or heat to the40

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