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> [No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kodo-sawaki/no-matter-how-many-years-you-sit-doing-zazen-you-will-never-become/)

[Kodo Sawaki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kodo-sawaki/)

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> [In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dogen/in-doing-zazen-it-is-desirable-to-have-a-quiet-room-you-should-be/)

[Dogen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dogen/)

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