The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life,but to face it -- exactly and completely.
~ Dainin Katagiri Roshi
James's comment:
Too often we use religion as a crutch or a means to escape and that is not facing our lives head on. I don't know what we think we are escaping from but it never works. We think we have made a great choice by avoiding problems.
However, we soon realize that our escape vehicle is a bubble that will burst sooner or later. This burst often drops us into a worse situation than if we had faced our original problem head on in the first place.
It only kicks the ball down the street aways but we have to face our "problems" eventually. Life has a funny way of compounding problems when we don't deal with the problems as they arise.
---End of Transmission---
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