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- That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in…
- Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and…
- Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them,…
- No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
- For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret…
- Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.
- You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
- Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?
- Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and…
- But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
- Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to…
- Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than…
- For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found…
- Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are…
- Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the…
- We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the…
- When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He…
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