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“Enlightenment is not viewing the universal principles as objects; rather, it is becoming aware of them in one's living self. Thus kenshō (literally, seeing into your nature) is not seeing your True Nature as an object; rather, the True Nature becomes the thing seeing.”

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Book:Zen and the Bible
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Zen and the Bible

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