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December 14, 2011

NOT TOO TIGHT, NOT TOO LOOSE

My middle way and your middle way are not the same middle way. For instance, my style is to be casual and soft-edged and laid-back. For me to do what usually would be called a strict practice is still pretty relaxed, because I do it in a relaxed way. So strict practice is good for me. But perhaps you are much more militant and precise. Maybe you tend toward being tight, so you might need to find out what it means to practice in a relaxed, loose way. Everyone practices in order to find out for him- or herself personally how to be balanced, how to be not too tight and not too loose. No one else can tell you. You just have to find out for yourself.

EXCERPTED FROM

The Wisdom of No Escape

The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path
of Loving-kindness,
page 43

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