Enlightenment must be lived here and now through this very body or else it is not genuine. In this body and mind we find the cause of suffering and the end of suffering. For awakening to be an opening into freedom in this very life, the body must be its ground…Embodied enlightenment is about living wisely in your particular body, as it is, on this day, in this amazing life.
-- Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
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