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title:: Books/The Way of Zen - To strive, then, to blot out the conventional world of things and events is to admit that it exists in reality. Hence the Mahayanist principle that “what has never arisen does not have to be annihilated.” - These are not the idle speculations and sophistries of a system of subjective idealism or nihilism. They are answers to a practical problem which may be expressed thus: “If my grasping of life involves me in a vicious circle, how am I to learn not to grasp? How can I try to let go when trying is precisely not letting go?” - This is the familiar, everyday problem of the psychological “double-bind,” of creating the problem by trying to solve it, of worrying because one worries, and of being afraid of fear. -