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This talk continues\\xa0Shohaku Okumura Roshi\'s commentary on the modern classic\\xa0Opening The Hand of Thought\\xa0written by his teacher\\xa0Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. \\xa0Okumura Roshi discusses how we wake up\\xa0in our zazen practice.\\xa0An excerpt: "We simply repeat waking up from thinking or sleeping.\\xa0 That\\u2019s all we do.\\xa0 So there\\u2019s no goal.\\xa0 The point is just to be, right now, right here.\\xa0 Right now right here is just sitting.\\xa0 So whenever we find we deviate from just sitting we return to here and now and just sit.\\xa0 There\\u2019s no goal, nowhere to go." \\xa0It was originally given at Sanshinji in Bloomington, IN on July 18, 2010.

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