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Get off your high horse.
You’re still in the weeds.
Always will be.
Stay humble. Do you.
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In researching this quote and its origins, I found a take on this, with a variation I also really like:
Before, you chop wood and carry water with suffering.
After, you chop wood and carry water with love.
— u/RWJefferies on Reddit
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Although the key sentiment here is quite clear, as koans go, different interpretations come plenty, in volumes more or less pegged 1:1 to inhabitants of Planet Earth.
Rabbits go here:
- Canon?
- The origin of this quote is unclear
- My search for a canonical source (also) came up short
- Wu Li often attributed:
- r/quotes
- Maybe also this here, on redleopard.com 🤔
- …this post by Kyle Kowalski is as close to canon as it gets
- From r/Buddhism
- From theodoragoss.com
- “When I’m stressed or anxious, which is often, I try to think about what I can do that is simple, physical, and useful.”
- From a Medium post
- “Chop wood, carry water is like the Zen equivalent of this too shall pass.”
- From basini.com
- From franciscanmedia.org 🤔