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Embrace challenges as opportunities for growth from "summary" of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
When you have some difficulty, don't be bothered by it. Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice. In calmness there should be activity. Even though you have problems, you have to continue to live. You have to find out what you should do. Problems always appear and always will. So when you have some problems, you should understand that you are always in the very centre of the world. When you have difficulties, you should be quite calm - difficulties always come and go. Then problems will not be just problems, they will be opportunities for you to understand the truth. The problems you have will eventually help you. The truth is always in you. When you realize something, you will be able to do it even though it is difficult. You c...
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