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FREE WILL IS NOT SO FREE
when you realize that your karmic debt is heavier than "the giant tortoise holding up the earth," so proclaimed the old woman at a William James's lecture. When he asked her "What is the tortoise resting on?" she replied: "It's no use— it's tortoises all the way down." Fate is not so fatal when you know that you can't call back the arrow which has left the bow, but you can take better aim the next time around. So tomorrow's fate rests on today's free will as the Zen archer hits the bull's-eye and sets fate free all the way down. — Peter Y. Chou Squaw Valley, 7-11-1989 (Brenda Hillman's workshop) |
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