The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeo — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeo — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeo — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeo — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeo — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
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The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

— Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
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