“What is out there is in me”

 

Student: It occurred to me that one reason the thinking mind is disowned is there are a lot of things that one would rather not think about. For example, why we have so much and thousands of babies are being born in rubbish heaps every day, and why corporations control governments that have millions of lives in their hands and their only motive is profit, or, you know, whatever it is, as well as of course the more personal matters.

Roshi: These are personal matters. We can take each of those voices, like the voice of the greed that's behind our society or the arrogance that's behind it, and look at those same voices within our self. Because whatever the corporation is doing, I'm doing on some smaller, miniscule level. The greed, the arrogance, the ego behind it all is within me. And even though I don't want to look at it and I don't want to think about these things, what I suppress will come out in my dreams, will come out in my sittings, will come out in other places.

 

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