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My own teacher once told me that awakening is always an accident; and I tell my own students this today. There is no obvious causal relationship between nondual insight<\/a> and anything we might do or not do. But if awakening is an accident, certain practices<\/a> can help us become accident-prone.<\/p>\n

Zen Master Who?<\/a><\/p>\n

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