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$\"\"$ <\/p>\n

One morning Roy, a longtime student of Katagiri Roshi, began his talk verbally stumbling around.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I was walking to the zendo I began crossing the street just as a piece of newspaper was picked up by the wind and blown across my path. As I bent down to pick up the paper, I thought, \u2018I hope someone sees me bending down to pick up this paper,\u2019 so I froze.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to pick up the newspaper for the wrong reason. I could see how stinky my ego was, only wanting to do something small for the good if someone saw me doing it. Then I noticed that no one else was around, so I started chasing the paper, but just as I bent down to grab it, I thought, \u2018I will still know that I\u2019m doing something good, so picking it up is still stinky.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to do. By this time, the newspaper had blown away, so I gave up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out of the silence, Roshi growled, \u201cPick up the newspaper!\u201d<\/p>\n

Jumping into birth and death, picking up the newspaper, is the dynamic working of realization. What must be dropped to actualize this dynamic working now?<\/p>\n

Excerpt from Keep Me In Your Heart A While: The Haunting Zen Of Dainin Katagiri<\/em><\/a>, by Dosho Port.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"