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• The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
• Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
• All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings,…
• What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and…
• How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
• Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.
• You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?
• What is the sound of one hand?
• At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
• Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
• Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
• I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as…

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