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If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. These supposed mysteries have rendered the calculus of the infinitely small quite suspect to many people. Those doubts that remain we shall thoroughly remove in the following pages, where we shall explain this calculus.

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Natalie Goldberg

Natalie Goldberg

Natalie Goldberg (b. 1948) is an American author and teacher of creative writing. She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as a Zen practice.

Natalie Goldberg is a poet, teacher, writer, and painter. She was born in 1948 to Jewish parents of Polish ancestry, and was raised in Long Island. A student of Zen Buddhism for 24 years, she trained intensively with Dainin Katagiri for 12 years at the Minnesota Zen Center, and is ordained in the Order of Interbeing with Thich Nhat Hanh. Natalie Goldberg teaches writing workshops based on the methods first presented in her best-selling book, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within.

Her other books include Wild Mind (an expansion of the ideas about writing that she first expressed in Writing Down The Bones); Long Quiet Highway (a memoir of her lifelong search for a spiritual teacher and her eventual taking refuge in Buddhism); Banana Rose (a novel); Living Color; Thunder and Lightning (an exploration of what to do with the writing that is generated through writing practice); and most recently The Great Failure (a memoir of coming to terms with her legacies from her father and from her Zen teacher).

Goldberg finds writing practice to be analogous to zazen, or Zen meditation. In writing practice, the aim is to simply write - and to keep writing for a whole timed writing period. There are no goals regarding quality or content. Goldberg states: “The idea is to keep your hand moving for, say, ten minutes, and don’t cross anything out, because that makes space for our inner editor to come in.”

In recent years, Goldberg's teachings have come to emphasize Katagiri Roshi's three main teachings:

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