Wednesday, April 27, 2011

A Herculean Task

Easy is the way down to the Underworld:
by night and by day dark Hades' door stands open;
but to retrace one's steps and to make a way out
to the upper air, that's the task, that is the labor.1

That is Zen practice.




1Virgil in The Aeneid [Book 6]

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