The Way of Zen

You know, we all have it inside of ourselves, in the heart.

You don't get it from books.

You don't get it from thinking.

You don't get it from study.

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You know? The subtext of that is I can figure it out.

I can think my way through to the end of suffering, and I can study enough and read enough Dharma books and go to enough Dharma classes and think about it, and when I look at my suffering, which you're not really even probably able to look at, but, uh, I can figure out how to let go of it by thinking about what the Buddha said, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

We think we can think our way to happiness, or maybe we can put it this way, I can will my way.