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• Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
• When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.
• If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing…
• Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different,…
• The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
• Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
• The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no…

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