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Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
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The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
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There are no rules in painting and.. ..the oppression, or servile obligation, of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the Young who profess this very difficult art that approaches the divine more than any other.
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One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.
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Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
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We tried two moderate Republican candidates, McCain and Romney, and we lost both times.
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Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.
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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.
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To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
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Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
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Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
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To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
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'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.
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When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
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don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.
