If we see things as they are, then we do not have to interpret or analyze them further; we do not need to try to understand things by imposing spiritual experience or philosophical ideas upon them. As a famous Zen master said ‘When I eat, I eat; when I sleep, I sleep.’ Just do what you do, completely, fully.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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