Two days ago the Zen Center Regensburg’s Facebook page Inbox got this question from someone. The letter-writer first cites a poem by the Japanese haiku master, Bashō. Then she asks her question. (My reply is in blue.)

If you don’t right straight to the point with people, then what’s it worth? More time-wasting conceptual understanding does what for the short time left?
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