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If you must expound the taught to them accordingly. say, ‘’Practice is not moving
Dhamma, the best way is not An instance demonstrating forward, but there is for-
to think about it at all. Simply his own spontaneity oc- ward movement. At the same
forget it. The more you think curred when once, after he time, it is not moving back,
and try to plan, the worse it had expounded the Dhamma but there is backward move-
will be. This is hard to do, to a group of his disciples, ment. And, finally, practice is
though, isn’t it? Sometimes, he asked them if they had not stopping and being still,
when you’re flowing along ever heard this teaching be- but there is stopping and
quite smoothly, there will fore. They replied that they being still. So there is mov-
be a pause, and someone had not. He then went on to ing forward and backward
may ask a question. Then, say that he himself had also as well as being still, but you
suddenly, there’s a whole never heard it before. can’t say that it is any one
new direction. There seems of the three. Then practice
to be an unlimited source Just continue your practice eventually comes to a point
that you can never exhaust. no matter what you are do- where there is neither for-
ing. Practice is not dependent ward nor backward move-
I believe without a doubt in on any one posture, such as ment, nor any being still.
the Buddha’s ability to know sitting or walking. Rather, it Where is that?’’
the temperaments and re- is a continuous awareness
ceptivity of other beings. He of the flow of your own con- On another informal occa-
used this very same meth- sciousness and feelings. No sion, he said, ‘’To define Bud-
od of spontaneous teaching. matter what is happening, dhism without a lot of words
It’s not that he needed to just compose yourself and and phrases, we can simply
use any superhuman pow- always be mindfully aware say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on
er, but rather that he was of that flow.’’ to anything. Harmonize with
sensitive to the needs of the actuality, with things just as
people around him and so Later, the Master went on to they are.’’’

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